Police Bremen

Police Bremen
State level	country
position	police
Supervisory authority	The Senator for Home Affairs
Headquarters	Bremen
Authority management	Police chief Lutz Müller
Servants	approx. 2700
Web presence	www.polizei.bremen.de

The Bremen Police (also known as the Bremen Police , but here referring to the city ​​of Bremen ) is the state police of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . The police enforcement service in Bremerhaven is carried out by the Bremerhaven local police authority, which is independent of the Bremen police .

history

Before 1800

The term police (from Polis to German: " City "), then called Policey , was used more extensively as an expression for the administration of the city in the Middle Ages up to the time of liberalism (18th / 19th centuries). Since the 14th century, the combing courts , manned by four chamberlains , were responsible for investigating criminal cases. To ensure public safety and order, the aides of the state used to have a wide variety of names, such as the bailiff or market bailiff of the Middle Ages and early modern times, or the court usher (was also referred to as bailiff ). In the Middle Ages , the town bailiff was probably the morning speaker who led the morning resolution meeting of the offices. Increasingly, individual morning speakers (until 1848) were appointed for the offices as z. B. Schlachtevogt or for the construction, street cleaning, begging or the showman trade. There was still no special police authority. From the 18th century, the term police increasingly focused on the tasks of security and order.

1800 to 1918

Around 1800 there were six police officers in Bremen .
In the French times, however, the police service was already well organized, led by a prefect . After 1813 there was a lower and police court , a criminal court and a police department headed by two senators (including Georg Heinrich Olbers from 1834 to 1860 ). In the 19th century, the police headquarters were subordinate to three police commissioners . Ten police officers performed the police service in the city. They were available to the police department and the criminal court. In the Bremen rural areas of Lehe , Osterholz , Hastedt , Gröpelingen , Arsten , habenhausen , Huchting and Woltmershausen there were still bailiffs before 1813 , then Sauvegarden , after 1839 police servants , since 1848 again Sauvegarden and from 1854 country hunters . There were also the Landdragoner and the night watch in five places in the city, which had been observed by police officers since 1882.

In 1866 there were two chief police commissioners , four district commissioners , a building commissioner , as well as a render , a chancellery list, a sergeant for the railway and 27 police servants as well as two further police commissioners in Vegesack and in Bremerhaven with their police servants and dragoons. There was also a Landjäger Corps on duty in the Bremen countryside .

Since 1875 the criminal police commissioner was added and with it the establishment of the specialized criminal police .

In 1909 Anna Wegener (1877–1963) was hired as the first female police assistant to the criminal police; the first woman in the police force in Germany.

After 1918

Police officer at Werft AG "Weser", shortly before the Bremen steamer was launched (1928)

After the First World War, the police were subordinate to the Senate Police Commission, chaired first by Mayor Karl Deichmann ( MSPD ) (1919–1920), then Senator Albert von Spreckelsen ( DVP ) (1920–1928, 1931–1933) and again by Senator Deichmann in between (1928-1931).

In 1919 the position of police chief was created, which was held by the conservative Leopold Petri until 1933 (see also under management). The formally subordinate security police were subordinate to Colonel Walter Caspari ; In May 1920, the Senate had to settle conflicts between the two police chiefs about their competencies through official instructions.

The Police Act of 1931 provided for a structure with the two areas of criminal police (under Dr. Georg Pott) and regulatory police. The uniformed police were divided into the “blue” police with individual duty in the police stations and the barracked “green” police under Caspari, which was housed in the barracks Roter Sand . Party political activities on duty were prohibited. The “blues”, however, were unionized. The head of the union was the then police master Franz Noch (also SPD - member of parliament ), who led the police as chief police director from 1947 to 1951 after the Second World War.

From 1933 to 1945

From 1933 to 1937, the Senator for Internal Administration Theodor Laue (NSDAP) led the police as "police master" in the formal sense ; in fact, its permanent representative was Dr. Georg Pott (since 1933 NSDAP) responsible for the management of the police department. The commander of the state police was Colonel Potel from 1933 to 1935 and then Colonel Wittke. The protection police led until 1937 as commander of the police lieutenant colonel (since 1936 colonel) Dr. Heinrich Lankenau (since 1933 NSDAP), at the same time inspector of the regulatory police. His successor was Lieutenant Colonel Curt Pohlmeyer from Berlin . Until 1936, the state criminal police were subordinate to Dr. Conrad Parey, who was then transferred to the district court as judge.

In 1936 Hitler linked the party office Reichsführer SS with the new state office of Chief of Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and transferred the post to Heinrich Himmler . In the Reich there were now two main departments under Himmler for the Ordnungspolizei (OrPo) with SS-Obergruppenführer Kurt Daluege as head and for the security police (Sipo) with SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich as chief.

Responsible for Bremen was the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSuPF), from Wehrkreis X in Hamburg since 1939 . Even if all police stations in Bremen were officially subordinate to the Bremen Senate, the Reichsführer SS, his main and department heads and the responsible HSSuPF could issue instructions to the Bremen police with the SS inspectors. The two Bremen criminal police inspections were now subordinate to the administrative districts of Stade and Aurich.

In March 1938 the Senate passed a police law. The powers of the previous police headquarters were transferred to a police president and the position was filled by SS-Oberführer Curt Ludwig until 1941 . However, the Gestapo was not under his control. The governing mayor was the highest regional police authority . Police Colonel Johannes Schroers (NSDAP since 1933) became commander of the police in 1938, deputy chief of police in 1940 and chief of police from 1941 to 1945. The Schutzpolizei had been led by Lieutenant Colonel Herbst since 1941.

In 1944 the Schutzpolizei had 400 men and its reserve 315 men. The air raid police had 3200, the city watch 1780 and the factory security 710 men.

State Police or Gestapo and SD

The state police , from October 1935 Secret State Police (Gestapo) in Bremen was headed from 1934 to 1939 by the police captain, then SS-Obersturmbannführer and councilor Erwin Schulz . In 1935 she was assigned to the Senator for Internal Administration with the right to issue instructions from the Reichsführer SS through the Gestapo Office in Berlin .

In Bremen in 1936, the former Bremen State Police Office was transformed into the Bremen State Police Station with still 46 employees and the branches in Bremerhaven (until 1937) and Vegesack (from 1939), as well as the branches in Hafen (1936) and Blumenthal (from 1939). Other heads of the state police station from 1940 to 1943 were the "tough" SS-Sturmbannführer and government councilor Dr. Herbert Zimmermann , from 1943 to 1945 SS-Sturmbannführer and Government Councilor Dr. Erwin Dörnte and in 1945 the SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat Dr. Georg Kiessel . In 1945, the criminal police and the Gestapo were united under the umbrella of the State Police.

The security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) - initially an SS and party agency from 1935 also a state agency - remained an independent agency with intelligence duties in Bremen as in the Reich. In Bremen there had been a state branch in Bremen since 1935 in Graf-Moltke-Strasse and then in Sögestrasse with frequently changing heads. In 1942, the SD section in Bremen was subordinate to the inspector of the Security Police and SD in Hamburg and ultimately to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Berlin.

After 1945

After the Second World War , the police leadership had to submit to the American military government in Bremen. From 1945 to 1951, a chief of the police was in charge of the police. 1951 was the merger of the regulatory, criminal and administrative police and the city office under the leadership of a police president as city ​​and police office . In addition, the Bremen State Criminal Police Office was later set up. Since 1991 there are again the separate organizational units police headquarters (with the Department of Criminal Investigation ) and the municipal office and the offices Water Police Bremen , water police Bremerhaven and riot police of the City of Bremen .

City armed forces, green police, riot police

The city armed forces in Bremen were formed by resolution of the provisional government under Mayor Deichmann (SPD) and by an appeal by Senator Theodor Spitta (DDP) and Major Caspari in February 1919. According to the provisions of the Versailles Peace Treaty, it was to be dissolved as a purely military association and surrendered its heavier weapons. The USPD demanded the immediate dissolution of the association it hated in November 1920. The SPD, through Wilhelm Kaisen (MSPD), also spoke out in favor of dissolution by early 1921. In this sense, the citizenship decided to dissolve. Strangely enough, the KPD now criticized this decision. The bourgeois and right-wing parties as well as the Senate contradicted the demand for dissolution. The Senate initiated a referendum and resigned. At the referendum in January 1921, the majority spoke out against the dissolution. The subsequent new elections for citizenship led to a victory for the bourgeois / conservative parties. The city defense under the command of Colonel a. D. Arnold von Engelbrechten - who it was actually about - was dissolved anyway. The police took over the duties in February 1921. The barracked "green" police under Caspari arose. This directed the police force strictly militarily.

After the Second World War, the relationship in police matters between the federal government and the federal states had to be redefined. It should be characterized by a cooperation of equal but also equally committed partners. The riot police assistance system was based on the administrative agreements to be negotiated between the federal and state governments. Bremen concluded the first administrative agreement with the federal government in 1951. Shortly afterwards, in 1952, the first police centenary was set up, which - at that time also barracked - resided at Niedersachsendamm 78/80. Initially, trained craftsmen were also hired, while around 2000 the technical college entrance qualification is required for training, which begins with a three-year internship and can be completed after three years at the Bremen University of Public Administration . In 1952 there were 127 riot police; by 2000 there were said to have been around 350.

Criminal police

After the French Revolution , instead of the combing courts, there was a criminal court with a few police officers and Sauvegarden (rural police officers). In 1852, a commission for the expansion of the police force demanded that special services be set up for the criminal court. Since 1853 a police commissioner and three police officers were available for this. Since 1875 there was a criminal police superintendent in Bremen . This can be seen as the foundation of the specialized criminal police in Bremen. In 1881 there were two police commissioners and six police officers, and in 1891 there were 14 police officers on duty. Until 1908 the Kripo was housed in the town hall, then in the police station .

In the Weimar Republic, the criminal police and the regulatory police were subordinate to the police chief. Since 1919 a chief inspection and four inspections for the Kripo were established. Detective officers were assigned to the district guards. The head of the criminal police was the non-party specialist Dr. jur. Georg Pott.

In the time of National Socialism , the former judge Dr. jur. Conrad Parey, who was organized with Stahlhelm and then with the SA . The Kripo was now also responsible for political crimes. In 1934 there were three crime-related departments of the Kripo. The Kripo became part of a state criminal investigation office .

When the responsibilities of the police were fundamentally changed in July 1937, the Bremer Kripo, with a control center and two inspections, was also responsible for the Prussian / Hanoverian government district of Stade , for the district of Aurich and for areas of Oldenburg. It was technically subordinate to the Reich Criminal Police Office (RKPA). The Kripo was now part of the security police and many officers were given additional ranks of the SS. In 1937 a female criminal investigation office was set up.

After 1945 the Americans set up a new criminal investigation agency, and in 1945 Richard Beelitz (SPD) became the director of the crime scene and Richard Siebke from 1947 to 1952 . From 1969, Dr. Herbert Schäfer Detective Chief. The leadership then changed frequently. The female criminal investigation department, with a focus on child and moral offenses, was expanded and was an organizational unit from 1951.

Structure:

The criminal police was located as a department at the city and police office, since around 1991 the main department and now the police department of the police chief. It is divided (2011) into the units Central Investigation Support (K1), Special Forces (K2) with SEK and MEK, Violent Offenses (K3), Structural Offenses (K4), Economic and Property Crime (K5) and State Security (K6).

State Criminal Police Office

In 1947, a State Criminal Police Office was set up for the state at the city and police office, which worked closely with the police in the British zone and then with the Lower Saxony state criminal investigation office . The LKA became independent in 1974, dissolved in 1986 and re-established after 2000 in the area of ​​the criminal police / state criminal police department.

Town house, police house and police headquarters

The town house around 1850/60

The Am Wall police station - headquarters of the Bremen police from 1908 to 1999

From 1819 to 1908, the simple, classicist town house next to the town hall served the extended administrative requirements. The police were also housed here. Around 1900 this not very attractive building no longer met the spatial and representative requirements of the growing city.

When the town hall at Bremen town hall had to give way to the new town hall, it was necessary to build a new building for the police stationed in the town hall. In 1801, Klub Union built a house on Wall 201 on the corner of Ostertorstrasse. The houses at Am Wall No. 200 and No. 201 were demolished around 1905. The former police house was built from 1906 to 1908 according to plans by the architect Carl Börnstein in the style of romantic historicism with Art Nouveau elements . Until 1999 the headquarters of the police was here (since 2004 Wall-Forum and city library). Only the police station in the Mitte district remained at the old Am Wall location .

The central police headquarters in Bremen has been located in Vahr 76 in the Vahr district since December 1999 . The headquarters of the Bremerhaven local police has been located in Lehe in the town hall, Hinrich-Schmalfeldt-Straße 31 , since the 1950s .

The Bremen riot police have been in the barracks (formerly Hindenburgkaserne) and administrative buildings on Niedersachsendamm in the Neustadt - Huckelriede district since 1952 .

Restructuring 2016

In 2016 the police were divided into three new organizational units:

• Central Police Directorate
• Deployment Directorate
• Directorate of the Criminal Police / State Criminal Police Office

assignment

tasks

The mission is to ensure public safety and order . As a law enforcement authority , it takes action against unlawful and criminal acts, identifies offenders and analyzes patterns of crime. Another task is to avert danger in the area of internal security , that is to say, the prevention or suppression of illegal acts of any kind. In the context of traffic monitoring, it regulates traffic flows and plays a key role in emergency assistance ( emergency calls ). Furthermore, the police, in close cooperation with authorities for crime prevention to possible offenses in advance to detect and prevent.

Legal bases

For the area of ​​hazard prevention, the police's powers to intervene are based on the Police Act of the State of Bremen, the Bremen Police Act.

The authorization to intervene in criminal prosecution results from the Code of Criminal Procedure .

Prevention

With the artificial DNA project , the Bremen police are the first police in Germany to support the use of so-called artificial DNA in a pilot project . To this end, she has signed a cooperation agreement with the SelectaDNA company with the aim of spreading the kDNA across the board in Bremen.

Criticism of the artificial DNA project

Since its inception, the project has been subject to critical media reporting, in particular asking for evidence of the success of the kDNA. Nevertheless, there are also various positive voices that see the success of kDNA confirmed.

A study published in 2012 by the Institute for Police and Security Research in Bremen also confirmed the success of the kDNA up to a certain point.

organization

Old green sleeve badge on the " Moosgrün / Beige Uniform "

New blue sleeve badge on the new blue police uniform

authority

The police are a Bremen state authority and subordinate to the Senator for Home Affairs . The staff consists of more than 2,400 police officers and around 300 civilian employees.

The Police Headquarters is the central facility of the Bremen Police. It is in the street In der Vahr .

In addition to 16 police stations, there are also 13 police stations, two water protection and traffic police locations and the area of ​​the riot police , which is stationed in the street Am Niedersachsendamm .

Police headquarters

The Bremen Police Headquarters with its Police President (PP) is divided into three directorates and the Presidential Staff Department (PSt).

Since August 2017, the Bremen police have been switched to a 3-pillar model as part of the “Reform 2600” currently in progress. This means that the previous 8 directorates have been transferred into only three directorates, although some of these three new directorates are still being established.

Presidential Staff Department

The presidential staff is a department assigned to the management of the authorities and is the responsibility of the police vice-president.

The individual presidential staff units are managed as subject areas and are:

• Presidential Office (PSt 11), Press and Public Relations (PSt 12), and Prevention Center (PSt 13) - until 02/2012, the prevention tasks were carried out by the Criminal Police Advisory Center, Traffic Prevention and the youth officer of the Bremen Police.

The Bremen Police has been undergoing a renewed, fundamental reorganization since July 2016. All areas of application have been combined in one directorate. All administrative tasks and also essential control instruments of the police chiefs were centralized in a "Central Police Directorate". In addition, the criminal investigation department remains with slight adjustments.

Directorates

The three new directorates are

• the "Central Police Directorate", responsible for personnel, finances, technology, ICT, logistics and principles,
• the "Operations Directorate", in which the protection police, traffic police, waterway police, riot police and the Central Operations Control Directorate have been combined
• the "Directorate Criminal Police / LKA", in which, according to the Hamburg model under the motto "Kripo under one roof", all investigative services - d. H. including the regional commissariats previously assigned to the protective police - are summarized.

Criminal police

In addition to the management staff (department K0), the criminal police is divided into seven departments: Central Investigative Support (K1), Special Units and Special Forces (K2), Violent Crimes (K3), Organized and Structural Crime (K4), Economic and Property Crime (K5), State Security ( K6) and regional and juvenile delinquency (still S4, soon K7).

Deployment Directorate

Water police

As part of “Reform 2600”, the Water Police Department became the Water Police Department in August 2017 in the new Bremen Police Department. The water police form department E 2 in the Operations Directorate and is divided into

• Department management group (E 20), based in Bremerhaven

and the subject areas

• Emergency service based in Bremerhaven (E 21)
• Contact service Bremen (E 22)
• Hazardous goods / environment in Bremen (E 23)
• Traffic monitoring shipping / dangerous goods Bremerhaven (E 24)

Special feature: The emergency service based in Bremerhaven is also responsible for operations in the city of Bremen.

The Bremen water police is responsible for water police tasks and the enforcement of the shipping police on the Weser. The water police department is located at two locations, in the Doventor (Bremen) and at the container terminal in Bremerhaven. The tasks of the WSP include operational and patrol duty (from Bremerhaven), fighting crime, monitoring the transport of dangerous goods, environmental protection, maritime security, prevention and contact service in the pleasure craft.

Until 2011, the WSP Bremen was also entrusted with the police control of cross-border traffic in the seaports of Bremen and Bremerhaven. On January 1, 2012, the task was handed over to the Federal Police. The Lower Saxony water police has been responsible for the section from Bremen to Bremerhaven since 2003. Since then, the Bremen water police have been at sea in cooperation with the Lower Saxony WSP with a coastal patrol boat from Lower Saxony and on the river with the two long-distance boats Visura and Lesmona.

For the area of ​​the city of Bremen, WSP Bremen (currently), in cooperation with the fire brigade, maintains the combined rescue boat Bremen 1 for the police and the Bremen fire brigade. The crew is provided by the police or the fire brigade, depending on the purpose. If the crew is provided by the police, this is done by the emergency services in Bremerhaven, with the corresponding time expenditure for the journey to Bremen.

Traffic police

The Traffic Police Department (E 3) of the Operations Directorate is divided into the

• Department management group (E 30)

and the operational area with the subject areas:

• E 31 - Emergency service ready for traffic
• E 32 - traffic commissioner
• E 33 - Road traffic monitoring (technical traffic monitoring and specialized traffic monitoring)

Riot police

The Riot Police Department (E 4) of the Operations Directorate is divided into

• the leadership group
• two betting hundreds with three moves each ,
• an evidence preservation and arrest unit (SFOE),
• a technical operation unit (TEE) and
• the service dog squadron
• the central property protection

Protection police

The police with its 16 precincts and 13 stations is divided into three departments for regional police work (North / West (E 7), Middle / South (E 5) and East (E 6)) according to "Reform 2600".

There are areas in Bremen

• Middle: downtown
• North: Blumenthal , Lesum , Vegesack
• East: Hemelingen , Horn , Osterholz , Schwachhausen , Steintor , Vahr
• South: Huchting , Neustadt , Kattenturm , Woltmershausen district
• West: Groepelingen , Walle

For the above Locations will result in changes as part of the 2600 reform because individual locations are not suitable for the necessary changes. In the future it will

• 6 police stations (Vegesack, Gröpelingen, Innenstadt, Neustadt, Vahr and Osterholz) and
• 10 police stations (Blumenthal, Lesum, Walle, Schwachhausen, Horn, Steintor, Hemelingen, Woltmershausen, Huchting and Kattenturm)

give.

Bremerhaven

Logo of the Bremerhaven police

→ Main article : Bremerhaven local police authority

In the city ​​of Bremerhaven , the police enforcement service according to § 74 Brem. Police law enforced by the Bremerhaven local police authority.

The police in Bremerhaven are not part of the Bremen police, but are subordinate to the local magistrate or the mayor as the responsible department head. Since the defense of threats to public safety is a matter for the state, the Bremerhaven local police authority acts on behalf of the state. The Bremerhaven local police authority is the last municipal police force in Germany.

The local police authority is divided into the management of the authorities, the police command staff (Office 90), the protective police (Office 93) and the criminal police (Office 94). Certain central criminal police tasks are carried out by central offices of the Bremen Police. The Bremerhaven Police Department has four police stations ( Leherheide , Lehe , Mitte, Geestemünde ). The local police authority has its own crime museum.

The duties of a public order office are performed by the citizens and public order office (Office 91). The civil and regulatory office is organizationally separated from the police (local police authority) and assigned to area 3 (legal, security and regulatory administration) in the administrative structure of the city, while the police (local police authority) forms area 9.

In Bremerhaven, the Bremen Police, with parts of the Water Police Department (E2), carry out water protection tasks on the Weser, in the port and in the coastal sea.

State Criminal Police Office

From a legal point of view, the State Criminal Police Office Bremen (LKA) is a state authority of the police enforcement service (Section 70 BremPolG) alongside the Bremen police. In fact, however, it is identical to the Directorate of the Criminal Police / State Criminal Police Office (Dir K / LKA).

The Criminal Police Advice Center in Bremen, Am Wall, was integrated into the central prevention center (PSt 13) in 2012.

management

The office of police chief was established in 1919 as the central authority.

Police chief

• 1919 to 1933: Police President Dr. Leopold Petri (1876–1963)
• 1933 as “police master”: Theodor Laue (1893–1953) (NSDAP), then senator
• 1933 to 1938 as director: Dr. jur. Georg Pott, (NSDAP)
• 1938 to 1941 Police President SS-Oberführer Curt Ludwig (1902–1989), (NSDAP)
• 1941 (March – April) Police President SS-Oberführer Carl Oberg
• 1941 to 1945 Police Chief Police Colonel Johannes Schroers (1885–1960) (NSDAP)
• 1945 as head: Police Director Franz Noch (SPD)
• 1945 to 1947 as head of the police: Helmut Yström (1881–1963), (CDU), later senator
• 1949 to 1951 as head: Chief Police Director Franz Noch (SPD)
• 1951 to 1975 police chief Erich von Bock and Polach
• 1976 to 1989 police chief Ernst Diekmann
• 1989 to 2001 police chief Rolf Lüken
• 2001 to 2009 police chief Eckard Mordhorst
• 2009 to 2011 police chief Holger Münch
• Since February 2012 police chief Lutz Müller ;

Head of Police Headquarters

• Presidential Staff (PSt): Carsten Roelecke, Chief Police Officer
• Operations Directorate (E): Daniel H. Heinke , Chief Police Director (B2),
• Criminal Police Directorate / LKA (K / LKA): Jürgen Osmers, Chief Criminal Director (B2)
• Central Police Directorate (ZPD): Andrea Wittrock, Chief Police Director (B2)

education

The course for the career of the higher service takes place at the University of Public Administration Bremen . For the career of the middle police enforcement service is no longer trained in Bremen. The last round of candidates completed his training with the riot police in the spring of 2002.

equipment

uniform

→ Main article : Police uniform (Germany)

Since October 1, 2006, the Bremen police, like the Schleswig-Holstein , Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania police, have been wearing the new blue police uniform of the Hamburg police . The changeover took place gradually, and officials were also allowed to wear the old uniform until the end of 2010.

vehicles

The Bremen police predominantly uses Mercedes-Benz , Opel and Volkswagen vehicles as company vehicles . Occasionally, vehicles from other manufacturers such as BMW and Fiat are also used.

Police cars are currently Mercedes-Benz B-Class , Mercedes-Benz E-Class , Opel Corsa , VW Passat , VW Touran and VW T5 . Occasionally, vehicles of the BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz Vito models are also used.

Coloring

In the course of the color change to blue, new patrol cars and emergency vehicles in the blue-silver or blue-white color scheme are being procured. The first blue and silver patrol cars were introduced in late 2005 / early 2006.

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  VW Touran patrol car of the Bremerhaven local police authority in a new blue and silver color scheme

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  For testing purposes were Segway  PTs at a major event in 2010 by the Hessian police borrowed

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  Police officers of the Bremen police with Segway PT patrol vehicles of the Hessian police

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  2013 decommissioned distance boat "BREMEN 12" of the Bremen water police

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  Emergency boat "Bremen 1" formerly for the water police and the Bremen fire brigade in the city of Bremen, since January 1, 2018 only in use as a fireboat

See also : Police uniform (Germany)  and patrol car

Police violence in the media

In June 2013, there was an alleged attack by several Bremen police officers in the Gleis 9 discotheque , which was directed against a single, 28-year-old man who wanted to evade arrest. The video from the surveillance camera was released and caused outrage. The police chief filed a complaint against unknown persons on the day the allegations became known. The public prosecutor's office was investigating the police officers. She closed the proceedings in October 2014 due to a lack of sufficient suspicion.

In 2011, a football game escalated at the Sielwall crossing in Bremen . 70 officers were on duty and there were injuries. An uninvolved young man was beaten by the police and injured in the eye without appearing as a violent criminal. His testimony is supported by a police video and a private cell phone video. Initially, the man was charged with resisting state violence and acquitted. In 2013, prosecutors opened an investigation into a police officer who slapped the man in the face.

literature

• Konrad Elmshäuser : The bailiwick and criminal justice system in Bremen . In: 700 Years of Bremen Law, publication from the Bremen State Archives, Vol. 66, Bremen 2003.
• Nadine Laue: Formation of the Bremerhaven local police authority (1945 to 1947) . Series of publications by the German Society for Police History, Vol. 15, Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-86676-295-4 .
• Joscha Glanert: Paramilitary or Police? The Bremen government protection force. In: Eva Schöck-Quinteros, Ulrich Schröder and Joscha Glanert (eds.): Revolution in Bremen. "The whole of the German Reich stands against us today." Bremen 2018, ISBN 978-3-88722-760-9 , pp. 285-302.
• Elias Angele: champions of democracy? The city defense in Bremen 1919-1921. In: Eva Schöck-Quinteros, Ulrich Schröder and Joscha Glanert (eds.): Revolution in Bremen. "The whole of the German Reich stands against us today." Bremen 2018, ISBN 978-3-88722-760-9 , pp. 303-344.
• Karl Schneider: Deployed abroad - Bremen police battalions and the Holocaust, Klartext Verlag , Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0527-6 .
• Herbert Black Forest: History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Volumes I to V, Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Bremen Police Handbook. Collection of the most important Bremen laws and police regulations, taking into account the relevant Reich laws . Compiled by Th.Stoehr, Bremen (self-published) 1914.
• Oberlandjäger Wolter: memorial sheet to the Bremen Landjägerkorps , Bremen 1927.
• Thomas Folz / Wolfgang Harlos: Bremen and Bremerhaven , in: Hermann Groß / Bernhard Frevel / Carsten Dams (eds.): Handbuch der Polizeien Deutschlands , Wiesbaden (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften) 2008, pp. 139–164. ISBN 978-3-531-15709-2
• Police Bremen (Ed.): The Police Bremen. Eine Chronik , Bremen (Bremen Police Corporation) 2007.

Web links

Commons : Police Bremen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Bremen police
• Official website of the Bremerhaven local police authority

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Senator for the Interior: Interior Senator Mäurer reorganizes the police . Press release from July 28, 2016.
3. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteile/bremen-nord_artikel,-Zweifel-an-DNA-wachsen-_arid,894114.html
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5. ↑ Ansgar Siemens: REPORT: Lost magic. In: Focus Online . September 3, 2012, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
6. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteile/bremen-nord_artikel,-Taugt-DNA-als-Einbruchschutz-_arid,864028.html
7. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Kuenstliche-DNA-ist-kein-Erfalt-article7193326.html
8. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteile/bremen-nord_artikel,-Polizei-sieh-positive-Tendenz-_arid,767485.html
9. ↑ ddp: Artificial DNA against thieves. In: FAZ.net . October 18, 2009, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
10. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!101937/
11. ↑ Institute for Police and Security Research University of Public Administration Bremen: Use of "artificial DNA" - assessments and evaluations in different population groups ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Transparency portal Bremen
14. ↑ http://www.bremen.de/praeventionszentrum-der-polizei-bremen-339365  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) http://www.polizei.bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid= bremen09.c.5986.de
15. ↑ Local police authority
16. ↑ http://www.inneres.bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid=bremen02.c.1273.de
17. ↑ Incident in Bremen: Police officers are said to have treated disco visitors brutally. In: Spiegel Online . July 10, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
18. ↑ http://www.bild.de/news/inland/haben/polizeigewalt-in-bremer-disco-31200328.bild.html
19. ↑ Voluntary disclosure after alleged police violence. In: sueddeutsche.de. July 10, 2013, accessed March 16, 2018 . 
20. ↑ http://www.stern.de/panorama/brutaler-stock Einsatz-im-gleis-9-bremer-polizisten-pruegeln-disco-gast-krankenhausreif- 2036434.html
21. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/panorama/video-blas-wie-polizisten-einen-discobesucher-in-bremen-verpruegeln-id8171860.html
22. ↑ http://www.staatsanwaltschaft.bremen.de/sixcms/media.php/13/Nr%2012.pdf
23. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjOOCdyLhA8 ( Memento from June 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )