Germany plans security overhaul after Berlin attack
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By Hui Min NEO (AFP) 6 hours ago in World
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Germany's interior minister on Tuesday outlined plans for a security services overhaul, seeking greater federal powers on domestic intelligence and quicker expulsions of illegal migrants following the Berlin truck attack.
Thomas de Maiziere also wants federal police to be given wider oversight across the country's 16 states, and for a new national crisis management centre to be set up.
"We don't have federal jurisdiction to deal with national catastrophes. The jurisdiction for the fight against international terrorism is fragmented," he wrote in a guest column for the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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