BERLIN, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the newspaper "Rheinische Post" on Monday that he considered the lack of random police checks in three of Germany's 16 federal states a "blatant security gap."
Herrmann further demanded an expansion of random police checks in border regions, as well as international transit routes, airports, rail- and highway stations.
His comments come just ahead of the start of a conference attended by the interior ministers of Germany's states and the Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, which is being held in the Saxonian capital of Dresden from June 12 to 14.
Measures to combat terrorist threats will form the focal point of discussions at the conference.
According to the German definition, random police checks are a form of control that members of the executive can employ without prior suspicion.
Introduced first in Bavaria in 1995, such checks are currently unlawful in the states of Berlin, Bremen and North Rhine-Westphalia.
