Museum about the police: eggnog in the middle of the day

C hristian Specht, born in 1969, is politically active and advocates for more opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in the media. Since 2017 he has been the first person with a disability on the Lebenshilfe board. He has an office at the taz and (irregularly) draws the “Woodpecker of the Week”.

Here you can see two police cars in a museum. There is a museum up near the Platz der Luftbrücke, the so-called “Police History Collection”. The museum is said to be very interesting – I would like to take a look at it. There are probably great posters hanging there and there are old police cars with bars.

I came to this because they reported on the police museum in the RBB. I've never been there, but I'd really like to take a look at it with someone. I also drew a radio in the picture. Back then there were radios in police cars. But they got rid of the ones from back then at some point, today they look different.

Taxis used to have radios like this too. Back then, the police were generally equipped very differently. Today, when I see the police, they have more technology. Back then they communicated with their radios with antennas. There were so-called “contact officers” with shoulder bags. They were there so you could talk to them if you had any problems.

My grandmother lived on Urbanstrasse in Kreuzberg back then; my mom and my sister and me too, by the way. There was also a small police station, which later moved to the Bergmannkiez. When I was a child, if these contact officers were lucky, people would invite them to drink beer - at least that was the case with my grandma; This contact officer who was with us also liked to drink eggnog - in the middle of the day. They don't do anything like that anymore! Protocol: Rahel Bueb