Uproar over teachers

Police students are fed up with racism during training

The symbolic image shows a teaching situation in the police academy.

(Bild: BMI/Gerd Pachauer)

The junior police officers in Linz complained in an internal feedback about discriminatory, racist and homophobic remarks during their training. For example, the instructors allegedly referred to same-sex love as a "disease". The Ministry of the Interior has since reacted.

This "Police Academy" is no laughing matter: There is a huge uproar at the Linz training center because police students complained about discriminatory racist remarks and questionable statements about homosexuality in an internal feedback survey. The teachers are said to have described same-sex love as a "disease". And this despite the fact that the teachers in question are considered "human rights experts".