Berlin's CDU proposes AI system to evaluate anonymous police tips, citing lost investigative leads
The CDU parliamentary group in Berlin has submitted a motion to the Senate to develop an AI-supported analysis system for the growing number of anonymous online tips received by the state police, saying current limited resources cause valuable information to be lost.
Overloaded tip system
The Berlin police receive an ever-increasing volume of anonymous online tips that often cannot be processed quickly enough. According to the CDU parliamentary group, the high information load and limited evaluation resources at the Landeskriminalamt (LKA) mean many tips are not connected or assessed in a timely manner.
The Berlin police faces the growing challenge of evaluating the ever-increasing number of citizen tips promptly and making them operationally usable.
As a result, deputies argue, critical leads are slipping through the cracks and harming investigative outcomes.
The AI proposal
The faction, meeting at a retreat in Stromberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, has decided on a motion calling for the LKA's current tip system to be modernised into an AI-supported processing and analysis platform. The proposal would allow the police to use artificial intelligence in a legally compliant way to scan, assess, and link anonymous submissions.
Criminals have long been using the most modern technologies. Therefore, our police must also be able to use the possibilities of artificial intelligence in a legally compliant manner to make Berlin safer. More security does not come from more bureaucracy, but from better evaluation of existing information.
Political context
The motion is one of more than 30 being discussed at the Berlin CDU retreat covering housing, transport, security, education, and the economy. The faction leader, Dirk Stettner, emphasised that the police should harness the same technological tools that criminals already exploit, while respecting legal boundaries.
