{
  "id": 19613495,
  "title": "Security: Are Saxony-Anhalt police officers turning their backs on the state? Above-average number of transfer requests after AfD victory",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/sicherheit-kehren-polizisten-sachsen-anhalt-den-rucken",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-12T06:22:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/sachsen-anhalt-ungewoehnlich-viele-polizisten-beantragen-nach-afd-sieg-versetzung-01/100268780.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "A recent report claimed that 72 police officers in Berlin requested a transfer after the Left party won an election, three times the number from the previous year. Some German states, including Baden-Württemberg and Brandenburg, actively sought to recruit Berlin police officers. Meanwhile, in Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in early September and is set to elect a leader, Ulrich Siegmund, as Minister-President in mid-December. If successful, Siegmund would likely become Germany's first AfD Interior Minister, overseeing the state police.",
  "summary": "In Saxony-Anhalt, the first interior minister from the ranks of the AfD could take office. Some officials want to leave the federal state because of this. But this is not that easy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}