Anyone who chases away other police officers must pay

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Several police forces poach police officers from other forces. As Blick revealed, the people of Winterthur are particularly active when it comes to recruiting police officers from other cantons. In the canton of Zurich, with its high wages, people are in a comfortable position to help themselves in other cantons.

For Adrian Wüthrich (42) it is clear that politics must address the problem. The former national councilor of the SP is chairman of the police association of the canton of Bern. The problem is also known in this region. Especially smaller neighboring cantons would poach in Bern.

He is unaware that Zurich also recruits police officers in Bern. He suspects a certain cultural threshold between the two cantons. “The hurdle to get from Bern to Zurich is quite high.”

Companies pay better

But one thing is clear: the good wages in Zurich have a pull effect. “I myself know a police officer who moved to Zurich from another canton years ago, simply because he earned 1,500 francs more a month there.”

Wüthrich’s demand: higher wages and more attractive working hours are needed. After all, being a police officer is a second job. “Everyone already has initial training. The shortage of skilled workers is now leading companies to pay better wages.” That is why police officers resumed their traditional profession.

250,000 francs for three years

Wüthrich emphasizes that “the cantons and corps must again adhere to the gentlemen’s agreement” that police officers are not stripped of each other. The agreement must be further tightened: “If a police officer moves to another canton in the first three years after training, he must repay the full training costs of 250,000 francs.” After that, the amount should be gradually reduced from year to year, he demands. “Only in this way can we come to a fair solution again.”

Top Swiss police officer Mark Burkhard also emphasizes that active poaching is not desirable. The chairman of the conference of police commanders says that the police officers should be able to apply in other cantons of their own accord. However, the Corps is not allowed to poach in foreign territories.

Tough job in the city

Politics is also required for Burkhard so that an attractive professional environment can be provided. After all, it demands a lot from the police forces in the urban environment if an average of one demonstration takes place during the day and social life increasingly shifts to the night. And when drunk and drugged night owls deal with the police.

Source:Blick