Weekly report from May 5 to 11, 2025

The municipal police were called out 24 times due to disturbances of the peace, only one of which was in the commercial sector.

The city police organized assistance for 10 helpless people. Two were admitted to the psychiatric ward of the Sana Clinic due to mental disorders. Another was drunk and had a bloody head wound that required urgent medical attention.

The traffic police recorded a total of 461 speeding vehicles at 32 measuring points and initiated corresponding proceedings. This means that quite a few road users received a warning or fine for speeding.

A warning or fine was issued to 3,658 vehicles for parking illegally or other traffic violations in stationary traffic.

For the registration office, 51 vehicles were registered for uninsured vehicles to be unstamped.

In addition to the warnings issued by the traffic police, the municipal police were deployed in 38 cases of acute traffic offences. These included, in particular, parking offenders in disabled parking spaces, in front of fire department access roads, on the weekly market site or in temporary no-stopping zones set up, for example, for construction work, tree-cutting measures or removals. The city police had 34 vehicles towed away.

Three e-scooter drivers without a valid insurance license plate were each prosecuted for violating the compulsory insurance law.

At the beginning of the week, there was a dangerous goods/heavy goods check at Bieberer Berg. To reduce the dangers at the checkpoint, a speed funnel was also set up and the maximum permitted speed on site was set at 30 km/h. Many drivers did not adhere to this. This was often not adhered to and resulted in expensive photos.

Together with the youth traffic education department of the state police, a check of bicycles and e-bikes was carried out on the Main riverbank cycle path on Friday. In addition to several minor road safety violations, the officers also seized five tuned e-bikes and initiated criminal proceedings.

On Monday, two people reported a dispute in a condemned building and a person wounded in the neck. On site, a patrol and the immediately alerted emergency services found a lifeless person who had already entered rigor mortis, in addition to the two homeless people. The criminal investigation department is now looking into the matter.

A well-known drinker attracted attention several times this week in the area of the market square by banging, urinating in public and shouting. Even after sobering up in police custody, she again attracted attention in the pedestrian zone at 2.30 a.m. by shouting loudly. Two days later, she tried to steal a whole watermelon. However, the store owner did not file a criminal complaint and she was simply sent off.

When turning from Kaiserstraße into Berliner Straße, an SUV was noticed skidding due to excessive speed. During the subsequent check, the patrol found that the vehicle had no insurance cover, the driver had no driving license and the two occupants in the rear of the vehicle were in the country illegally.

A faulty washing machine was the cause of the water damage and the need for the fire department to open the apartment. As the owner of the apartment had already died three weeks ago according to neighbors, the opening was accompanied by the city police and the apartment was sealed afterwards.

An e-scooter, which was being driven illegally by two people in the city center at 2:40 a.m., was conspicuous because it was clearly weaving. The driver persistently ignored the patrol car's signals to stop and could only be persuaded to stop by pulling over. The driver, who had just turned 14, was drunk (1.37 per mille) and will now face criminal proceedings for drunk driving. A blood sample was taken by the state police.

In the Hafenallee area on Friday night, a woman sat down in the middle of the road. When approached, she stated that her partner had cheated on her and that she now wanted to leave her life. She had also already been hit by a vehicle. The patrol was unable to confirm the latter, but took the woman to a specialist psychiatric clinic.

There was a considerable traffic jam at the Mainstraße/Schloßstraße junction on Friday morning due to the roadworks taking place in the city at the same time. The disruptions were rectified in the course of the morning. Two roadworks have now been removed and traffic has been reopened. In the meantime, the city police regulated the traffic in order to minimize the traffic jam up to Mühlheimer Straße.

When a patrol issued a warning to a parking offender in Geleitstraße, an uninvolved passer-by intervened and began to insult and later verbally threaten the patrol. The patrol took the passer-by's personal details and the man resisted his colleagues.

Another passer-by made a "throat-cutting gesture" towards a patrolman. When questioned, it became apparent that the person was confused. He stated that he was hearing the voice of the devil and wanted to be killed. This conversation also ended in a specialist psychiatric clinic.

A total of 179 operations were registered by the city police this week.

The city police accompanied 4 events and a gathering to commemorate the end of the war on May 8, 1945.

At the request of public offices and authorities, the municipal police carried out a number of residence investigations. This primarily involves checks on cohabitation and cases in which urgent official mail could not be delivered due to a missing letterbox and/or doorbell.

The city police also took in several lost and found items during the lost and found office's closing times this week. If lost, please contact fundbuerooffenbachde.