Germany's police union asked today for Turkish police officers to help them deal with delinquents in the roughest areas of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's largest state. Specifically, they wanted help to control unruly youths of Turkish origin - but stressed that the request was not an admission of defeat, in an area that has some of Germany's highest levels of unemployment, according to dpa. "Things can't continue like this," said the head of the state's police union, Erich Rettinghaus. "We should give this a try," Rettinghaus said of the suggestion that Turkish police officers should patrol alongside their German colleagues. The police union spokesman said it was no secret that certain areas of Duisburg had problems with people "with a migration background." As an example, he cited the existence of a joint German-Dutch patrol, adding that cooperation and integration should not end at the borders of the European Union.
