Secure district in Upper Bavaria: crimes are falling, but new challenges!

Secure district in Upper Bavaria: crimes are falling, but new challenges!

As part of a security discussion in the district office in Weilheim-Schongau, District Administrator Andrea Jochner-Weiß and police chief Frank Hellwig presented the current security situation in the district on June 14, 2025. Despite a slight increase in certain areas, the district remains known as the "Safest district in the Oberbayern-Süd police headquarters", with a frequency number of 3110, such as Merkur reported.

A worrying trend is the increase in violations of foreign law that go into statistics. Here, 4,336 such violations were registered, which corresponds to an increase of 1.7%. In contrast, the total number of crimes fell by 3.3% to 4,174 cases without these violations. The clarification rate has also decreased, from 72.8%to 70.5%, but is still above the Bavarian average of 67.9%.

special types of offenses in the focus

The increase in crimes among children and adolescents is particularly striking, with 23.9% of the 2,254 criminals of this age group. There are increasing records within the crime statistics in child pornography and call center fraud. While violent crime has risen from 152 to 171 cases, the drug offenses have fallen from 330 to 165 due to the cannabis legalization.

• simple theft: 705 (721 in the previous year)
• Heavy theft: 253 (274)
• violent crime: 171 (152)
• drug offenses: 165 (330)
• raw crime: 1,032 (984)
• sexual offenses: 144 (147)
• other crimes: 1.247 (1,229)
• Criminal law side laws: 435 (535)
• street crime: 660 (567)
• killing offenses: 1 (3)
• asset and counterfeiting offenses: 519 (509)
• burglary theft: 27 (15)

A tragic event remains the only homicide in 2024, a passive incident that was related to a construction site accident. In addition, the police counted 3,636 traffic accidents with 10 deaths, an increase compared to 2023, where there were 8 deaths.

challenges in the digital area

The topics of digital crime and the abuse of new technologies also throw their shadows. More and more criminal energies are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create content that is legally difficult to classify. For example, Furthermore about the operation "Cumberland", which took place in February 2025 on the fight against AI generated representations of child abuse. 25 suspects were arrested in 19 countries.

The challenges of law enforcement in the digital area are diverse. Understanding the legal framework regarding AI generated content is complex. The investigative authorities present these new technologies with great challenges, while a social discussion about the protection of human dignity and the responsible use of such technologies must be conducted.

It remains to be seen how the security situation is developing and what measures are taken to cope with both old and new challenges in the field of crime.