According to Ministers Bausch and Braz, police keep no secret databases, nor does the magistracy keep any hidden records. In light of the recent attention brought to issues concerning individual privacy, heads of the Justice and Internal Security departments decided to set some things straight in an open letter.
The police and the justice authorities had established databases in cases of criminal investigations, which is and has been public knowledge for a long time.
The grand ducal regulations of 1992 had been extended to June 2018, after a number of failed attempts to change it. Since then, the European data protection laws have provided the legal foundation for said databases.
Current discussions do not only concern how these issues affect the politicians’ public image, but whether the 2018 laws can be in any way amended for the better.
Both Green ministers stress the importance of data protection, while at the same time underlining the necessary requirements that allow the police to perform their duties properly and without political pressure.
The topic is being taken very seriously, and they would do their best to provide a transparent and objective debate to the public, without partaking in any party politics or polemics.
Superfluous, unfounded and blanket statements aimed at police and justice authorities are unacceptable, they said.
