City Police Winterthur
The Winterthur City Police is the sovereign police force for the city of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . In the Winterthur city administration it forms part of the “Safety and Environment” department.
Legal bases
In Switzerland, the cantons have police sovereignty and several of them - including the canton of Zurich - delegate some of their police powers to cities and municipalities. The Zurich municipalities can therefore use their own security organizations. The city of Zurich and Winterthur as well as around forty Zurich municipalities thus have their own police organizations.
In particular, the Zurich City Police and, to a lesser extent, the Winterthur Corps are equipped with expanded police authority. They work closely with the Zurich Cantonal Police in areas such as scientific police, forensic technology or dealing with large-scale situations .
The Zurich Police Act of July 1, 2009 and the Police Organization Act of November 29, 2004 form the basis for the cooperation between the Police Corps of the Canton of Zurich and the Zurich cities and municipalities, including the Zurich and Winterthur City Police.
Organization and tasks
Around 250 police and civil servants are on duty around the clock. Police management can deploy security detachments or deploy grenadiers to deal with special and major situations. In some cases, the Zurich canton police support the Winterthur security staff.
One major task is dealing with urban problems such as road traffic, petty crime or dealing with the marginalized scene. In 2008 and 2009, the Winterthur city police dissolved the so-called “pavilion scene”, a group of marginalized and drug addicts. This campaign, called “Merkur”, led to the establishment of the downtown district department in 2009 with the district and bike police. The result was a better awareness of the local police presence and a more intensive implementation of community policing . In 2010, the long-standing operation “AHAB” (Central Station Action Plan) started, which led to a significant decrease in the number of violent crimes in the vicinity of Winterthur train station . The Swiss crime statistics show that Winterthur has been the objectively safest city in Switzerland since 2008.
structure
The police corps is divided into the police command and six main departments (HA).
Police command
The police command is the leading body of the city police. The command consists of the commander, his chief of staff and the head of command area 1. The commander is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the corps; in his function he is also the commander of the (civil) city management staff. The media and communication department reports directly to him. In the case of special and major situations, a task force appears under the direction of a general operations manager.
Main Operations Department
- Tasks: The HA Operations operates the situation center, prepares the major events and situations. She manages the hot spots by means of bike and district police. She runs the operations center.
- Department: Situation report, planning and deployment
Investigation and Prevention Department
- Tasks: The HA investigation searches for, determines and employs specialists (e.g. fighting graffiti). She intervenes both in uniform and in civilian clothes.
- Departments: Investigation and Prevention
Main Department of Security and Traffic Police
- Tasks: The HA security and traffic police are the first deployment element. She intervenes around the clock via radio patrol. It monitors, controls and controls the traffic.
- Security and traffic police departments.
Main Department Permits
- Tasks: The HA permit takes care of the management of the public space (old town, markets). It ensures law enforcement in industry, commerce, hospitality and markets, etc. a. m. It operates the control center.
- Department: Administrative Police.
Command areas 1 and 2
- Tasks: These two areas recruit the next generation and are responsible for basic training at the Zurich Police School (ZHPS) as well as professional training for members of the corps. They are the internal service provider in for the other HA.
- Departments: (KB1) Education and training, legal affairs, quality assurance; KB2 logistics, IT and projects.
history
The professional police of the city of Winterthur began their service on July 10, 1867. It consisted of a police lieutenant, a police lieutenant, two constables and twelve police officers. The uniforms and armament were militarily shaped (federal orderly saber based on the model of the French infantry saber "Briquet" and handcuffs). In 1882 police officers were given uniform ceinturons (belts) and sabers, which were in turn replaced by pasture knives in 1896. An important part of the initial job was the fire service. In 1869, the city acquired a noise cannon, which was installed in a house in front of the old town when the Heiligberg was on watch.
- “... The city police station was responsible for the maintenance and operation of the gun. In the event of a conflagration, the crew had to fire six gunfire. It was then the task of the police station, in addition to the drumming of the general march, to move out with "hunter calls" in order to indicate the scene of the fire with horn signals and fire calls ...
Some milestones from the history of the corps
- In 1914 the corps received ten 9 mm caliber revolvers. It was probably a " Webley revolver ". Uniform armament with German " Ortgies " self-loading pistols of caliber 6.35 mm followed after the First World War .
- 1931 Creation of the Organization and Admission Ordinance. Commissioning of the first motor vehicle, a car from the company " Willys-Overland ". Replacement of sabers with rubber clubs.
- 1934 Inspired by the "Tössem front riot", the police office equipped the teams with helmets, bayonets and " Karabiner 31 ".
- 1938 was the founding year of the motorized traffic police patrols.
- In 1939 the team received the self-loading pistol " Walther PPK ", caliber 7.65 mm.
- 1943 The service regulations come into force.
- 1975 Organization of a group of traffic officers.
- 1980 Replacement of the “Walther PPK” pistols with the new “ SIG Sauer P225 ” service rifles .
- 1990 Birth of the district police. Deployment of the first contact officer in the old town.
- 2000 First deployment of police youth service officer.
- 2004 Introduction of the Zurich Police Organization Act by popular resolution. The previously loosely defined responsibilities between the Zurich cantonal and municipal police forces will be regulated in a binding manner.
- 2006 Creation of the HA investigations (petty crime police).
- 2009 reform of the police youth service. Start of duty by the bike police. Purchase of Heckler & Koch P30 service pistols .
- 2010 The office for combating domestic violence and violence prevention starts work.
- 2012 The Winterthur electorate votes for a gradual target increase to 217 sworn civil servants.
- 2014 Integration of the food inspectorate as well as introduction of city-wide security controlling (systematized situation report, social monitoring, predictive policing).
- 2015 deployment of the first police culture and gastronomy manager in Switzerland.
- 2016 popular resolution to build a new, central police building.
- 2017 The city police are 150 years old. Start of the "Roadmap 2020" restructuring project, which aims at a comprehensive realignment.
- 2018 Creation of a specialist unit «Bridge Builders - Intercultural Affairs» (early detection of radicalization tendencies).
- 2019 Transfer of the traffic engineering / traffic control department previously assigned to the city police to the building authority. Start of construction work on the new police building on Obermühlenstrasse. Dissolution of the operations department and outsourcing of the food inspectorate. New uniform.
Bosses since 1931
- 1909-NN Rudolf Merki, Lieutenant
- NN -1930 Emil Egg, Lieutenant
- 1931–1939 Albert Faas, commissioner
- 1939–1947 Albert Morant, Dr., Inspector
- 1947–1969 Paul Walter, inspector
- 1970–1981 Max Steiner, Dr., inspector
- 1981–1986 Franz Zuber, commandant
- 1986–2004 Hansrudolf Eichenberger, commandant
- since 2005 Fritz Lehmann, commander
literature
- Hans Müller, Hans Kägi: Fifty Years of the City of Winterthur Police Officers Association (1907–1957). Self-published, Winterthur 1957.
- Bernhard Schwarz: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Winterthur police officers' association. Self-published, Winterthur 2007.
- Philip Kupper: The municipal police ordinances of Zurich and Winterthur. Schulthess, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7255-5857-5 .
- Franz Good: The "Red Rooster" to Winterthur. Schulthess, Zurich 2005 ( research on legal archeology and legal folklore. Vol. 22).
- Franz Gut: The wrongdoing and its truth. Offenders and criminal prosecution from the late Middle Ages to the most recent times - a contribution to the legal history of Winterthur. Chronos, Zurich / Winterthur 1995, ISBN 3-908050-14-6 ( New Year's sheet of the Winterthur City Library. Vol. 326).
- Fritz Lehmann: The Police Compass - a small guide to the federal police landscape in Switzerland, Verlag SPI, Neuchâtel 2007, ISBN 978-2-940385-10-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Negative consequences of the evacuation of the «Pavilion» in Winterthur. In: Top Online . April 21, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
- ↑ Winterthur's Merkur project is successful. In: Top Online . April 28, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
- ↑ Violence around Winterthur train station is on the decline. In: Top Online . April 16, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '59.6 " N , 8 ° 43' 56" E ; CH1903: 697,465 / two hundred and sixty-one thousand eight hundred eighteen