Monitoring device for the interior of a motor vehicle

A monitoring device (1) for the interior of a motor vehicle has a carrier part (2), having Direction at the at least one optical transmitter (5) and associated therewith, a receiver element (9) optical receivers (6) are provided. The receiver element (9) is connected to an evaluation device for the evaluation of in the interior of reflected optical radiation from the transmitter (5). The receiver element (9) is associated with an optical receiver system (10) which is designed such that from the interior under different Emfpangsrichtungen (13) on the receiver optics (10) incident approximately parallel to each other light beams having light beam to the same receiver element (9) bundled become.