Official titles of the Federal Police
The official or official titles of the Federal Police - incorrectly known colloquially as ranks - are in Germany the civil service designations of positions held by a law enforcement officer. Officials on revocation in the preparatory service instead use a service title because they have not yet been assigned an office in the sense of status law.
In the uniformed service, the service and office designations are visible through shoulder flaps or slip-on loops made of fabric (but usually not with emergency suits). They usually show stars arranged one on top of the other, braids / stripes in the preparatory service or braids / stripes in the water police .
The background of the shoulder boards is blue. They are pointed towards the end. In the Federal Police Office - Office See, the underground is navy blue.
With the water police the badges are called stripes or braids . They are always gold in color. Wide strands / stripes are 12 mm (senior service), narrow strands / stripes are 8 mm wide (medium service), the strands / stripes on the shoulder board of the Chief Police Officer are usually 30 mm wide.
The German Federal Police has the following service and official titles for law enforcement officers.
- For official names of the police forces of the federal states (Landespolizei) see official names of the German police .
Law enforcement service
Medium Grade
| Service or office title | Salary | Federal Police | Federal Police Lake Directorate |
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| Police Chief Candidate (PMA) | Candidate payments for entrance office A 7 |
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| Border Police Support Force (GUK);
Federal Police Support Force (BUK); Law enforcement officer (PVA) |
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| Police Chief (PM) | A 7 |
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| Police Chief Master (POM) | A 8 |
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| Police chief master / with official allowance (PHM, PHMmZ) | A 9 (also with official allowance, until June 30, 2012) |
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| Police Chief Master (PHM) | A 9 (from July 1st, 2012) |
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| Police chief with official allowance (PHMmZ) | A 9 (with official allowance, from 01.07.2012) |
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Higher service
| Service or office title | Salary | Federal Police | Federal Police Lake Directorate |
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| Police Commissioner Candidate (PCA) | Candidate payments for entrance office A 9 |
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| Police Commissioner (PK) | A 9 |
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| Police High Commissioner (POK) | A 10 |
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| Police Chief Commissioner (PHK) | A 11 / A 12 (until June 30, 2012) |
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| Police chief inspector A 11 (PHK) | A 11 (from July 1st, 2012) |
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| Police chief inspector A 12 (PHK) | A 12 (from July 1st, 2012) |
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| First Police Chief Inspector (EPHK) | A 13 (until June 30, 2012) |
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| First Police Chief Inspector (EPHK) | A 13 (from July 1st, 2012) |
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Higher service
| Service or office title | Salary | Federal Police | Federal Police Lake Directorate |
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| Police Council Candidate (PRA) | Candidate payments for entrance office A 13 |
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| Police Board (PR) | A 13 |
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| Higher Police Council (POR) | A 14 |
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| Police Director (PD) | A 15 |
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| Chief Police Director (LtdPD) | A 16 |
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| Vice President of a Federal Police Directorate, Director in the Federal Police (as department head in the Federal Police Headquarters) | B 3 |
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| President of a Federal Police Directorate, President of the Federal Police Academy | B 4 |
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| President of a Federal Police Directorate, Vice President at the Federal Police Headquarters | B 6 (if not B 4);
B 6 (Vice President BPOLP) |
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| President of the Federal Police Headquarters | B 9 |
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- Former management positions until March 2008
| Official title | Salary | Federal Police |
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| Department President in the Federal Police (Head of the Execution Department at a Federal Police Headquarters) | B 2 |
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| Director of the Federal Police (in the Federal Ministry of the Interior), Director of the Federal Police Academy, Director of the Federal Police Directorate (Dir) | B 3 |
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| President of a federal police headquarters | B 6 |
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| Federal Police Inspector | B 7 |
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Hints
- In the case of promotion officers, a silver braid is added to the badge at the beginning of promotion training from the middle to the higher service, and a gold braid from the higher to the higher service. In the case of the Federal Police Office-See, a shortened wide strand is generally added.
- The former "Border Police Support Force" (GUK) or the current "Federal Police Support Force" (BUK) does not belong to the civil service career of the middle service because it is not employed as a civil servant but as an employee. Insofar as they are assigned a corresponding salary group of the middle class according to their salary group (activity according to the job description). Can be equated with service, it should be allowed to be assigned to the middle service, especially if it also exercises sovereign functions.
Medical service in the federal police
| Service / office title | Salary | Federal Police | Federal Police Office Lake |
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| Doctor in the Federal Police (VB) | Employee ( TVöD E 13 to E 14) | Aesculapian staff , gold | Aesculapian staff, gold |
| Medical Council | A 13 | Aesculapian staff, a star, gold | three broad strands and Aesculapian staff, gold |
| Medical Councilor | A 14 | Staff of Aesculapius, two stars, gold | two broad, one narrow, one broad braid and Aesculapian staff, gold |
| Medical Director | A 15 | Staff of Aesculapius, three stars, gold | four broad strands and Aesculapian staff, gold |
| Head of the Medical Service of the Federal Police Headquarters (VB) | Administrative officer | Aesculapian staff, gold with oak leaves |
VB stands for administrative officer
Federal Police Orchestra
Employees at the Federal Police Orchestra wear dark blue shoulder pieces with a stylized golden harp ( lyre ), and the orchestra leader also wear oak leaves. Officials in the orchestra wear the shoulder pieces that are provided for their official title.
Note on the official designations of staff master and senior staff master
When the career system was changed in 1976 at the Federal Border Guard , staff master and senior staff master continued to exist as permissible official titles. However, the office of staff master was no longer awarded, but already appointed staff master could be promoted to senior staff master. These offices belonged to the middle law enforcement service . Staff masters who took a promotion test for the senior police enforcement service were promoted directly to the police superintendent , all other active staff masters were promoted to senior staff officers or they were given posts in the senior police enforcement service. There have been no active staff masters since 2005.
See also
- Official designations of the Federal Border Guard
- Official designations of the German customs administration
- Official designations of the railway police
- Police uniform (Germany)
Badge of the Federal Border Guard until 2005: see official names of the Federal Border Guard .