Overview
- An official reply to an AfD inquiry shows 4,271 of 10,874 applicants in 2024–2025 failed the required written German assessment.
- The selection includes computer-based tasks plus a dictation and a grammar test, which officials say account for most early eliminations.
- Failure rates differ by schooling: university graduates 14%, Abitur/Fachhochschulreife 31%, Mittlerer Schulabschluss 47%, and eBBr 69%.
- Police President Barbara Slowik Meisel called language competence a substantial problem and said about 80% of early failures stem from poor German skills.
- The Senat reports no significant pass/fail difference by migration background, offers German support during training, and notes that only 936 of 1,224 training places were filled last year with no pre-entry language courses provided.