Overview
- Police President Barbara Slowik Meisel announced the continuation of the LKA’s Ferrum deployment on March 10.
- The unit, created in mid-November 2025, responds to rising firearm proliferation and more shootings in Berlin.
- Through the end of February, investigators opened 260 cases, secured 13 arrest warrants, and seized 78 dangerous items, including 18 live firearms.
- Ferrum conducts recurring checks at bars, pubs, and known meeting points to raise detection risk and pressure organized-crime structures.
- The LKA emphasizes continuity and permanent presence as its deterrence strategy, and available data do not show a measurable reduction in firearm violence.