Headquarter Frankfurt am Main Crime Narcotics Directorate K 64 Adickesallee 70 60322 Frankfurt am Main Germany Thomas Zosel Chief Detective Investigation Team Leader Liaison ID: 576373
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Police Headquarter Frankfurt am MainCrime Narcotics Directorate - K 64 -Adickesallee 7060322 Frankfurt am Main - Germany -Thomas ZoselChief DetectiveInvestigation Team Leader / Liaison Officer for Drug ServicesPhone: +49 (0) 69 – 755 56410Fax: +49 (0) 69 – 755 56409E-Mail: thomas.zosel@polizei.hessen.de
Frankfurt am Main
Model for cooperation between Organisations and Police to drug related problems:
so
called: “Frankfurt Way”
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207/03/11 City Profile Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in Hessen. Here, more than 400 banks have their headquarters, including the European Central Bank. The City has 688.191 residents and 43 local municipalities. The so called "Frankfurt Resolution" was introduced as a drug policy document in 1990 at the “1st Conference of European cities in the centre of drug trafficking, as the model “Frankfurter way". Frankfurt is often described as the city that has solved its problems with the open drug scene pretty effective.Slide3
Data concerning the City of Frankfurt am MainInhabitants: 688.191German nat.: 520.997Foreign nat.: 167.194Employed: 495.366Unemployed: 25.516Commuters in: 325.487Commuters out: 68.08031 fair exhibitions with more than 1.380.290 visitorsFrankfurt with istCentral Railway Station (daily average of 330.000 Passengers)
The „Frankfurter Kreuz“ (east – west and north – south motorway intersection)
Rhein-Main-Airport (53 Mio. Passengers / largest Airport in Europe with freight of 2,2 Mio. metr.tons)
Frankfurt am Main is an international Centre for traffic, commerce and banking
Source: municipal office for statistics and elections, data from 2010
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407/03/11Official commitment At the Frankfurt am Main police Station (Headquarter) a detained person with a drug addiction may not be taken to the detention cell or prison without prior medical treatment (the provision of methadone). This circumstance is obligatory for considering a person's sensivity to imprisonment. Slide5
507/03/11Treatment of drug addictsArrested person who committed a crimeDrug Addiction (Questions: „Yes” or „No”)If „No” / Delivery and custodyIf “Yes” / Substitution by Methadone Clinic and then until Delivery and custodyTransfer the person to the prison with note of drug addictionContinuation of treatment in custody (Methadone) and depending on the length of detention to participate in treatment programs Slide6
607/03/11Chronology1960 → 1975From student protests to open scenes – From“Marijuana meadow”, from abstinence orientation and police repression1975 → 1990Chaos all around. Conflicts and changes(liberal-restrictive), increasing problems1989 → 1992In the late 1980s the city experienced a dramatic increase in social depression.
With misery, deaths and overdose, with 147 deaths in 1991 the city reached
the limit of what it could handle. The open scene “Taunusanlage” in a city park
belt, was visited by up to 1.000 addicts day and night. The availability of
Heroin rose and prices fell.
Adapted
from
:
Jürgen
Weimer
Municipal Office
For Drug Policy
Frankfurt am MainSlide7
707/03/111988 → 1989Working group. New guidelines. “Monday Round” - Living with drug addicts - 1992Final closure of the “Taunusanlage” with enhancement of harmReduction facilities:- Discussions of “User rooms”, counselling services- No tolerance for drug scenes- Return of people to their original place - Coordination of activities and management
(Measures became a combination of prevention, treatment
and harm reduction. Reducing of the repression on drug
users)Slide8
807/03/11Installation of the Monday Round (1988) with the followingperson:Chair: City council (wo)man for public healthDeputy Chair: Drug policy coordination officeMembers: Deputy police commissioner (till 2000) 2 high ranking police officersprosecutor district court
prosecutor high court
heads of municipal officers for:
public health
public order
juvenile and social affairs
prevention council
(since 2000)
state officer for school affairs
2 elected members from NGO´s
vice president chamber of commerce
(till 1994)
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Monday Round / Special Task ForceChair: Drug Policy Coordination OfficeTask of the Monday Round- Target oriented sub teams tacklingConceptions or problems like:Injections facilitiesCrackMain station areaViolence
Cancellation after problem solving
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The practice quickly showed that solutions were solved from the Monday round at the "base" only means of connecting with people. The solutions had to be implemented at the base as quickly as possible. Therefore, the "Friday round" at the Drug Unit of the City of Frankfurt am Main set (Direct implementation of decisions at the operational level)Installation of the Friday Round (1989)with the following person:(Direct implementation of decisions at the operational level)Chair: Municipal Office for Drug PolicyMembers: - police directors of precincts- police directors of special forces- management of drug aid facilities- heads of sections of municipal offices for public order and juvenile
and social affaires
delegates from the mobile projects
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Development of injection facilitiesInstitutionDate of implementationNo. of slots
Opening hours
Drogennotdienst
Elbestraße 38
Tel: +49 (0) 69 24 26 44 0
August 1996
10
Daily
6.00 – 21.00
incl. holidays
Druckraum
Niddastraße 49
Tel: +49 (0) 69 23 45 64
September 1995
12
Monday
17.00 – 23.00
Tuesday – Sunday
11.00 – 23.00
La Strada
Mainzer Landstraße 93
Tel: +49 (0) 69 23 10 20
May 1995
7
Monday,
Wednesday- Friday
08.30 – 19.30
Tuesday
08.30 – 14.00
Eastside
Schielestraße 26
Tel: +49 (0) 69 94 19 70 15
December 1994
8
Daily
15.30 – 22:30
incl. Holiday Slide12
Frankfurt Projects in Drug Aid to Kick the HabitMethadone Treatment- Drug aid centre Bleichstraße- Drug councelling centre Sachsenhausen- Municipal office for public health- Drug councelling centre Merianplatz- Drug councelling centre Höchst- Councelling centre for womenCouncelling an Therapy
- “Drop-In” Councelling centre North
- Drug councelling centre Höchst
- Drug councelling centre Merianplatz
- Drug councelling centre Sachsenhausen
- Drug councelling centre Bleichstrasse
- Councelling centre for women
Schooling, Job Orientation
Qualification and Employment
- Centre for Education, Hermann Hesse School
(140 students)
- Training- and job-education centre Höchst
(60 trainees)
- Projekt work, technics and culture (4 trainees)
- Centre for Training
(12 students)
- Frankfurter Workshop, Jobbörse
(jobs for daily wages)
- Jobs provided by drug aid providers
- Park project (20 Persons)
- Street sweepers (40 Persons)Slide13
1307/03/11The drug policy of the City of Frankfurt am Main4 pillar Model1.Prevention2.Crisis andSurvival
3.
Drug-free
programs
4.
Repression
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ground level => Drug consumption roomfirst floor => medical fieldsecond Floor => Management of the institution and facility managementthird Floor => Consumer café with social workingfourth and fifth floor => Accommodation for drug users07/03/11Division of a drug assistance facilitySlide15
1507/03/11Aims1. Prevent drug use2. Harm reduction and social (re) integration3. Additional support to quit drugs in order to lead to a drug-free life4. Struggle against criminality reduction of public nuisanceTarget groups
1. Young persons (up to 28 years)
2. Addicts and users with problematic patterns of consumption
3.
People who want to quit using drugs
4. Dealers, addicts with criminal energy and people that cause
public
nuisanceSlide16
1607/03/11Since 2004 police and social program “OSSIP"(Pro Aktive Sozial Work Security Work Intervention and Prevention) - For a living together in Frankfurt/M. -_________________________________________________"In order to achieve a trouble-free coexistence between drug users and citizens, police and the office from public order in the future will strictly struggle against:- public drug use- scene formation in the street- drug dealing- disturbancesand
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Development of drug-related deaths 1991 - 2010Frankfurt am Main1991147
1992
127
1993
68
1994
61
1995
47
1996
31
1997
22
1998
35
1999
26
2000
30
2001
36
2002
28
2003
21
2004
35
2005
24
2006
31
2007
44
2008
33
2009
33
2010
33
2011
26
This year up to
28.03.2012
5
Source:
Drug Policy Coordination Office of Frankfurt am Main
and Police Headquarter, Data from 2011Slide18
1807/03/11Implementation of Police drug warning system (2010)(Goal: minimizing deaths and analyzing in order to come up with warnings of available drugs)Monitoring of drug quality on the scene with consequences:- Seizure of questionable drugs- Toxicological Analysis of drugs- Feedback on the quality to the facilities and drug users- Notice to paramedics and rescue personnel to be able to offer specific treatmentSlide19
1907/03/11“It's not the question "when " a person comes into contact with drugs, but what reaction does this person show when drugs are offered to him. The challenge is to make people "strong" and to aggressively elucidate people about drugs. People's rationality must prevail over their curiosity. “Prevention is the challenge of the futureThank you for your Attention !!!!Jürgen PenschkeFor the Drug Division (K 64) it´s very important: