Assault Squad
A "command" is a "group of people who are mostly organized along the lines of a military model" and "are supposed to perform a certain task". Originally, a police raid command was provided and manned for use in raids (robbery, etc.). The reason was that the effort required was high and you had to be able to move the forces quickly “in one go” to the deployment site . In the narrower sense, it is also understood to mean a police team van and its crew. The term commonly used by the police is “group car”.
history
The term raid command (abbreviation: ÜKO or Üko) originated in the early 1920s in the Weimar Republic and, then as now, referred to a smaller motorized unit of the protection or order police of the federal states, which was mainly used on the occasion of robbery or bank robberies, brawls or other serious Criminal offenses. In the Free State of Prussia , so-called Schnellpatrolwagen were used for this from 1925/26. The Üko cars were partially equipped with lights and sirens, as of 1938 were blue lights and sirens introduced. Due to the increasing political unrest, an Üko was set up in the city of Oldenburg in 1929 , which was provided by the regulatory police of the Free State of Oldenburg and the Oldenburg gendarmerie .
With the introduction of a nationwide radio patrol service in the mid-1950s, there was generally no need to maintain a raid squad, which was then only available in large cities such as B. Frankfurt am Main continued to exist.
literature
- Werner Oswald : The vehicles of the police and the Federal Border Guard. Police vehicles from 1920 to 1974 , Stuttgart (Motorbuch-Verlag) 1974. ISBN 3-87943-332-1
Web links
- Report on the establishment of the attack command of the city of Frankfurt am Main in 1921 at polizei.hessen.de
- A raid squad in 1945/46, location unknown.
