11.11. in Cologne: the city wants to increase security
On Thursday, November 24, 2022, the members of the coordination staff met in the town hall Eleventh in the eleventhwhich included the city, police, KVB, AWB, security service providers and organizers in the old town, to analyze this year’s session start on the basis of the individual deployment balances.
Mayor Henriette Reker: “Our goal is to constantly improve the situation, which is still a burden for all those involved – especially for the residents and restaurateurs in Kwartier Latäng. I have accordingly commissioned the city director to further develop the security concept. We must succeed in equalizing the tens of thousands of revelers. I will support any measure that is suitable for achieving this.”
City of Cologne will expand security concept for street carnival
City Manager Andrea Blome will, on Monday, November 28, 2022, chair the General Administration and Legal Affairs Committee (AVR) inform about the results of the meeting and present specific ideas for the further development of the security concept. Blome prompts: “In response to the past 11.11. a discussion arose in the colognes Urban society both about the social change in the leisure and celebration behavior of the younger generation and about individual measures of the security concept and possible improvement options. We & are now discussing the various proposals that have been made so far with an open mind.”
At the invitation of Mayor Henriette Reker, the next round table on the street carnival will take place in December.
In previous years, crime on 11.11. and increased rapidly on the great days, especially in the street carnival. So there was 2022 shots at a Cologne café. Sometimes necessary because of the increased crowds Entire neighborhoods will be closed.