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Meerbusch. Trusting cooperation between the city and the police benefits all citizens
Mayor Christian Bommers has now met the new department head of the Neuss district police authority, Heidi Fahrenholz, in the town hall for a first meeting to get to know each other. Fahrenholz works as the “top trained police officer” directly for District Administrator Hans-Jürgen Petrauschke. Since August last year she has been the head of over 700 employees in the police stations in the district. She is also the first woman to hold this position. “A good exchange with our district municipalities and the administrative heads is important for my work,” says the 58-year-old, who has now completed her tour of the town halls with the head of the Meerbusch police station, Thomas Pilz.
From a police point of view, all municipalities between Meerbusch in the north and Dormagen in the south are individually special. Meerbusch, together with Korschenbroich, Kaarst or Rommerskirchen, is one of the “quieter areas” without “anxious dreams” or social hotspots from the police point of view. Nevertheless, the chief police director emphasized, it is important to be present here too. Because burglaries, thefts, drug dealing, fraud offenses against senior citizens or conflicts with young troublemakers also required police vigilance in Meerbusch.
Christian Bommers also wants high-profile community campaigns within the framework of a good “orderly partnership” between the city and the police: Educational work in schools about the dangers of drug use, tips for protection against burglaries or targeted offers for older people from Meerbusch could be starting points for targeted cooperation on site . The city and the police also want to continue to cooperate in the context of press and public relations work.
About Heidi Fahrenholz
Heidi Fahrenholz began her career in senior police service in 1982. From 1985 to 1993 she worked in Düsseldorf. In higher service, she not only headed the state security in Cologne and the police inspectorate in Krefeld, but also worked in the Ministry of the Interior as a crime prevention officer. In 2008 she moved to the district of Wesel, where she was also initially head of the police inspection and then head of the crime department until 2015. From 2017 to 2021 she worked at the Gelsenkirchen Police Headquarters as Head of the Emergency Response and Operations Directorate.
