Federal police (Germany)

the federal police (BPOL) is a police of the Federal Republic of Germany, which is subordinate to the department of B in the Federal Ministry of the inside. In the safety system of the federation the BPOL takes extensive and various police taskstruely, those in the law over the federal police (BPolG), in addition, in numerous other legislation, like e.g. in the residence law, in the asylum proceeding law and in the air safety law are regulated. It carried as far as 30. June 2005 the designation Federal Border Police (BGS).

organisational structure

The BPOL is divided into five federal police headquarters (BPOLP) north, east, center, south and west as well as federal police headquarters (BPOLD) and the federal police academy (BPOLAK). The competence borders of the individual presidenciesare usually not congruent thereby with the borders of the Lands of the Federal Republic. They result from the federal police competence regulation (BPOLZV).

Federal police headquarters are ever an out and an advanced training center (BPOLAFZ) and a flier relay (BPOLFLS) as well as several federal police departments (BPOLABT) and federal police stations (BPOLAMT) subordinate,the offices then federal police inspections (BPOLI).

federal police headquarters

federal police headquarters have its seat in Koblenz since 1953. Further agencies of the BPOLD are in sank Augustin with Bonn (specialized technical and medium place of the BPOL and medical one service), in dog city(Federal police supplying camps) and in Berlin (information centre course security together with the railways AG). It is subordinate directly to the Federal Ministry of the inside and fulfills tasks of the federal police, under it international co-operation, which can be noticed central, delegation of federal police officers to the German agencies abroad andthe support of the abroad used borderpolice connecting officials. It is also seat of the foreign connecting officials from the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Italy.

Three departments are subordinate to the director of federal police headquarters:

• Department 1 - Tasks of police
• department 2- Police technology BPOL and auxiliary police of the countries, logistics and regulations
• department 3 - right and administration

federal police academy

the federal police academy, in former times border control school, in Luebeck is the central advanced training basic and advanced training of the BPOL. It is considered asthe cradle of the federal police, there after establishment of the Federal Border Police at that time to 16. March 1951 in May 1951 the first officials as so-called framework personnel the accommodation referred.

federal police headquarters north

federal police headquarters north alsoSeat in bath Bramstedt there are the federal police departments Ratzeburg and Uelzen, the AFZ Walsrode, the federal police flier relay north in feeling village with the base GIF horn and that resident employment group of one hundred, the federal police stations Flensburg, Hamburg, Hanover and Rostock as well as that Federal police station lake, that with 6 ships in the north and Baltic Sea the police tasks in the coastal sea and on high lake notices and in the group with the tariff, which represents supervision of fishery and further authorities the German coast guard, subordinate. InTo range of the federal police stations 26 federal police inspections (BPOLI) exist, of it to four BPOLIKB to the criminality fight. The mobile control and control members (MKÜ) are subordinate formally to the federal police station Rostock. As organizational measure for the effective participation of the federal police in employments to the peacekeaping measures in the context of missions thatUnited Nations or the European union since 2005 again an employment group of one hundred in the federal police department GIF horn dissolved former is developed. The moreover one federal police headquarters north possess the federal police orchestra Hanover for the purpose of the representation.

federal police headquarters east

that Federal police headquarters east with seat in Berlin the federal police stations Berlin, Chemnitz , Frankfurt (or) and Pirna as well as the federal police departments bath Düben and Bluem mountain (Barnim) are subordinate, the AFZ Neustrelitz and the federal police flier relay east in Bluem mountain. In Cottbus is the BGS Leistungssportprojektsettled and in the federal police department Bluem mountain is resident the federal police orchestra Berlin. Special meaning is attached to the federal police station Berlin, its inspections also the protection of federal organs (Bundespräsidial, Federal Chancellor and Foreign Office as well as the Federal Ministries of the law and the inside) is incumbent on. Since that 29. October 2002 exists within the range of the federal police station Berlin the BPOLI police special services, to which the only rider relay of the BPOL belongs. Within the range of the federal police stations 35 federal police inspections exist, of it to four BPOLIKB to the criminality fight. The mobile controland control members (MKÜ) are subordinate to the federal police stations Chemnitz, Frankfurt (or) and Pirna.

federal police headquarters center

federal police headquarters center with seat in Fuldatal with Kassel are the federal police stations resounds, Frankfurt/Main and airport Frankfurt/Main as well as thoseFederal police departments Duderstadt and Hünfeld, the AFZ Eschwege and the federal police flier relay center in Fuldatal subordinate. Within the range of the federal police stations 18 federal police inspections exist, of it to three BPOLIKB to the criminality fight. The surface inspections are arranged in 16 employment uses (I/O).

federal police headquarters south

Federal police headquarters south with seat in Munich are the federal police stations Munich, swan village, Stuttgart and because on the Rhine as well as the federal police departments Bayreuth, Deggendorf and Rosenheim, the AFZ Oerlenbach, the federal police flier relay south in Oberschleissheim, the federal police sport schoolin bath Endorf and the federal police orchestra Munich subordinate. Within the range of the federal police stations 30 federal police inspections exist, of it to four BPOLIKB to the criminality fight. The four mobile control and control members (MKÜ) are subordinate to the federal police stations swan village (MKÜ Nabburg) and because on the Rhine (MKÜ Freiburgin mash gau, MKÜ Kehl, MKÜ Konstanz). The BPOLI Karlsruhe ensures the protection of the Federal Constitutional Court.

federal police headquarters west

federal police headquarters west with seat in sank Augustin - Hangelar are the federal police stations Kleve, Cologne and Saarbruecken as well as the federal police departments bath Bergzabern and sank Augustin, federal police the out and - advanced training center west (BPOLAFZW) and the federal police central office for information and communication (BPOLZSIUK) in Swisttal, the group of federal police fliers, the federal police flier relay west, beyond that, the GSG 9 thatFederal police (everything sank Augustin). Within the range of the federal police stations of federal police headquarters west 19 federal police inspections exist, of it to three BPOLIKB to the criminality fight.

tasks and powers

the tasks and powers of the federal police are regulated in the federal police regulation (BPolG). Law basis is thatto the 1. July 2005 by article 1 of the “law for renaming the Federal Border Police in federal police” of 21. June 2005 (BGBl. I S. 1818) renamed “Federal Border Police law” of 19. October 1994 (BGBl. I S. 2978, 2979).

To the tasks belong to the federal police:

• borderpolice protection of the federal territory: surveillance of the borders to country, to water and from air; police control of transnational traffic including the examination of the border crossing papers and the authorization for the border crossing as well as the border search; the protection from dangers, those those, In the border area up to a depth of 30 km and from the seewärtigen delimitation up to a depth of 50 km tasks of the course police protection
• from attacks on
• the security of air traffic protection of constitutional bodies impair
• security of the bordersthe federation and of Federal Ministries
• police tasks in the state of emergency and case of defense
• co-operation at police tasks abroad under responsibility of the United Nations (UN), the European union (European Union) or other international organizations
• support of the Polizeivollzugsdienstes of the police with the German Bundestag
• Support of the Foreign Office for the protection of German diplomatic and consular agencies abroad
• support of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations) in the protection and Begleitdienst (protection of individuals)
• support of the federal office for protection of the constitution in the area of the radio engineering
• support of the police of the Lands of the Federal Republic, in particularExtensive use
• assistance with disasters and special accidents including air emergency service

the federal police maintains three special-purpose forces. The group of federal police fliers with more than 100 helicopters of most different types, the GSG 9 of the federal police, a special-purpose force to the fight of the terrorism and the organized criminality as well as the central office for information and communication (BPOLZSIUK) - an agency, which essentially supports the determination-prominent agencies as Dienstleister of the BPOL by technical clearing-up measures in the criminality fight, as well as special radio transmission techniques holds ready and develops the Federal Office further for protection of the constitution in accordance with. §10 BPOLG in the area of the radio engineering supports.

A further specialty service place of the federal police is the preservation of evidence and arrest group of one hundred (BFHu)

an important operating field of the federal police is the fight of the organized and/or over-locally active criminality in particular in the Deliktsbereich of the channeling nature (offences gg.§§ 96, 97 AufenthG) by the so-called. Federal police inspections criminality fight (BPOLIKB).

These agencies are divided into a group of guidance, a determination service and an operational component for to a large extent covered operational measures, like Observationen (esp. after § 163f StPO) or coverstechnical monitorings (esp. after § 100c StPO).

This operational part calls itself mobile search unit (MFE) and is so far so well unknown in the public. Here originally addressed renaming in “employment use KRIMB” (EE KRIMB) is for the time being from the table.From the 16 different MFEen, which there are country widely, most operate very differently. Some resemble strong the mobile employment commands (MEKs) of the land police and accomplish also arrests in principle, others again work only in the absolute exceptional case open andleave the actual arrests university-formed police officer (for example the above mentioned.Preservation of evidence and arrest groups of one hundred), in order not to endanger their camouflage with publicly visible employments.

history

the federal police went out of to 16. March 1951 created Federal Border Police (BGS)out, as itself the spectrum of use of the BGS beginning with the reunification at the 3. October 1990 radically changed. Thus and delivered their heavy weapons lost member of the BGS 1994 the Kombattantenstatus to a large extent.

Already in the Federal Border Police law of 1972 it is called, thatBGS is “a police of the federation ". This determined also the Federal Constitutional Court in its decision from the year 1998. The tasks of the today's federal police are limited no longer only to the protection of the borders.

After the office designations already 1976 changedbecame, the Federal Border Police reached the 1. July 2005 in “federal police” renamed. A job enlargement was not connected with it.

ranks (office designations), uniforms and vehicles

of vehicles of the federal police lead the Kfz characteristic “BG” (for Federal Border Police). A change is medium-term in “BP” (former Kfz characteristic of the Federal Postal Administration) intended.

The characteristics are developed all after the system BG XX-YYY.

XX stands for it for the motor vehicle type:

• 10 to 12: Motorcycles
• 15 to 19: Passenger car
• 20 to 24: areaable passenger cars
• 25 to 29: Passenger car
• 30to 39: middle areaable passenger cars and truck
• 40 to 49: Vehicles on a truck chassis
• 50 to 54: protected Sonderwagen
• 55: Trailer

YYY is two or three-figure number.

The uniforms and shoulder pieces of the federal police officers correspond to those of the national police. The pastAdditive with the office designations “in the Federal Border Police” (e.g. Polizeikommissar in the Federal Border Police) is void. The uniform color and the vehicle lacquer finish become in the course of renaming the Federal Border Police in federal police, which to 21. April 2005 by the Bundestag and to 27. May 2005 of the Upper House of Parliamentwith the “law for renaming the Federal Border Police in federal police” discharged, to blue one changed over and thus to the police color of Europe one adapted. For the office designations see office designations in the federal police.

Web on the left of

• official Internet appearance of the federal police
• the federal police regulation inHTML format
• Institut for citizen rights & public security registered association.
• Information about the law for renaming the Federal Border Police in federal police
• resolution of the Federal Constitutional Court of 28. January 1998 - 2 BvF 3/92 (to the standard inspection procedure for clarifying the question whether and to what extent the Basic Lawit permits, tasks of the course police and the safety device of the airports the Federal Border Police too transferred)

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