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Basel police officers feel pressured by “paparazzi”. The videos of police operations made by passers-by are often taken out of context and put the police officers in a bad light. That is why the Basel Police Officers Association and SVP National Councilor Jean-Luc Addor (59, VD) want to ban such video recordings, wrote the “NZZ am Sonntag”.
This proposal is not only met with political criticism, but implementation is also likely to be difficult. “Nowadays everyone always has their smartphone with them and the videos are put on the Internet even faster,” the Association of Swiss Police Officers VSPB told the French-language Swiss newspaper “Le Temps”.
The safety director of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Stephanie Eymann (43, LDP), also sees it that way. You can at least partially understand the concern. “Still, I think that a ban makes no sense,” she told the “Basler Zeitung”. It’s just not enforceable.
Transparency instead of film ban
There are even more critical voices from police circles. For example, the former police commander of the canton of Neuchâtel, André Duvillard (62). He too can understand the police to a certain extent, but “simply banning filming is a bad idea”, Duvillard said of “Le Temps”.
A general film ban would send the wrong signal, he says. It can be interpreted as a desire to cover things up. “In addition, such a ban would lead to additional tensions: if a passer-by takes out his mobile phone in the vicinity of a police action, the officers would have to arrest him immediately.”
As a former representative of the Swiss Security Association, he advocates more transparency in the police. Police vehicles in the canton of Neuchâtel are therefore already equipped with cameras.
It is therefore quite possible that the proposal by the Basel Police Officers Association and SVP Landsraadslide Addor will not result in fewer, but rather more cameras aimed at the emergency services. However, they would at least come from their own side. (sq)
Source:Blick
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