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Association of German Criminal Investigators
(BDK)
Logo of the BDK
purpose trade union association of members of the criminal police
Chair: Sebastian Fiedler
Establishment date: September 28, 1968
Number of members: approx.15,000 (2010)
Seat : Berlin
Website: bdk.de

The Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (abbreviation: BDK or bdk) is a trade union professional association of members of the German criminal police and all those involved in the fight against crime in the public service. It is an independent, politically independent professional association, is not subject to any umbrella trade union influences and, according to its own statements, represents 15,000 police officers in Germany.

Job profile

The BDK stands up for the economic, professional, social and cultural interests of its members. According to its self-portrayal, the association makes a contribution to the development of a practical, realistic and progressive fight against crime through its work in the political arena, in public and in the police organization. The association is of the opinion that its proposals are based on the experience of daily dealing with crime , its causes and effects as well as the knowledge and application of professional criminalistics .

history

On September 28, 1968, the two criminalists Günter Tausch and Willi Knop founded the professional association of the criminal police in North Rhine-Westphalia, as many criminal investigators no longer saw themselves represented by the police union (GdP) and the criminal police was a minority in other unions. As a result, the specific concerns of the criminalists were often sacrificed to the majority. Supported by the idea that only criminologists can argue professionally for criminologists and that only unity would also make minorities strong, the newly founded professional organization placed its work under the goal of a fair evaluation of the work of the criminal police. The first requirement was the introduction of a two-tier career for the criminal police, i. H. the transfer of the entire middle service to the higher service with a corresponding pay increase.

After the BDK Federal Chairman Rolf Grunert, who came into office in 1972 and was known for his provocative actions , was exposed as a spy for the GDR State Security in 1978, the previous Federal Managing Director Ingo Herrmann took over the office and held it until 1990. Shortly after the fall of the Wall in the GDR and before reunification, he pursued - initially on an informal level - the expansion of the BDK into the new states - a strategy that his successor Eike Bleibtreu continued.,

Bleibtreus, successor elected to office in 2003, Klaus Jansen , was released from office on September 21, 2011 after massive criticism of his management style at the instigation of several regional associations of the BDK. Since then, André Schulz (* 1970) initially leads the chairman's business on a provisional basis and was confirmed in his office at the 14th Federal Delegates' Day in 2013 in Suhl with 94.3% of the votes.

In June 2012 Schulz accused the NSU investigative committee of the Bundestag for “post-mortem smart-ass shit”, which brought him the harsh accusation of the committee chairman that he had “an absurd understanding of the rule of law” and a “disturbed relationship to parliamentary democracy and the control tasks of members of parliament”.

Federal chairwoman of the BDK

structure

The BDK has regional associations in all federal states, the association "Bundeskriminalamt" for all employees of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the association "Bundespolizei" for employees of the federal police , the customs investigation and the military police .

Regional association Chairperson
Baden-Württemberg Steffen Mayer
Bavaria Robert Krieger
Berlin Daniel Kretzschmar
Brandenburg Riccardo Nemitz
Bremen Petra Rump
Hamburg Jan Reinecke
Hesse Dirk Peglow
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Eike Bone-Winkel (acting)
Lower Saxony Matthias Karsch
North Rhine-Westphalia Sebastian Fiedler
Rhineland-Palatinate Christian Soulier
Saarland Helge Stoll
Saxony Peter Guld
Saxony-Anhalt Peter Alexander Meissner
Schleswig-Holstein Stephan Nietz
Thuringia Mike Hellwig (acting)
Federal Criminal Police Office Dietrich Urban
Federal Police Thomas Mischke

Association magazine

The association magazine der kriminalist appears ten times a year with a double issue each in summer and winter. The editor-in-chief is Rolf Jaeger.

Core demands

The BDK Federal Association has formulated core demands on its homepage, which deal with the topics of job description, personnel, training and further education, career law, salary law and collective agreements, organization, equipment and technology, leadership and co-determination, law and criminal policy.

  • The constantly increasing demands on modern crime control require an independent criminalist-oriented professional profile for the criminal police.
  • Increased recruitment of external applicants directly to the criminal police. Adoption of suitable or specially trained applicants from the police force. Employment of Germans with a migration background and foreigners in the criminal police. Increase in the proportion of the criminal police in the overall police force. Increased hiring of collective bargaining employees to support criminal police processing.
  • Uniform federal standards for the training of the criminal police. Application-oriented training of protection and criminal police (modularization of training). Establishment of regional, cross-border and cross-border criminal competence centers (KKC) for advanced training. Increased range of courses in foreign languages. Specialist / investigator training at international and European institutions.
  • Entry office A11 for criminal investigation processing, office A13 for special processing.
  • Uniform federal pay for civil servants and employees. Adjustment of civil servant salaries and pensions in the new federal states to western levels.
  • Task-oriented police organization. Nationwide uniform organizational structure and nationwide uniform organizational designation of the criminal police. Guarantee of qualified crime processing close to the scene and the time of the incident. Management of criminal services only by criminalists with specialist and managerial qualifications. Establishment of a federal criminal police. Expansion of EUROPOL as an analysis and service point, strengthening of investigative skills / possibility of initiating investigations.
  • Compatible and certified standards for technical equipment at national and international level.
  • Own staff representatives for the criminal police. Guiding principles based on leadership.
  • Standardization of the police laws of the federal states. Adaptation of the substantive and formal law to the requirements of modern crime control also at EU level. Guaranteeing protection against crime as a German and European constitutional goal. Strengthening the position of victims of crime in legal proceedings.
  • Guaranteeing protection against crime as a German and European constitutional goal. Strengthening the position of victims of crime in legal proceedings.

Positions

Rocker crime

The BDK is committed to combating police-relevant biker crime and calls the necessary police approach the “strategy to combat small and large needle pricks”. The BDK advocates a general ban on the so-called OMCG's Outlaw Motorcycle Gang . The BDK massively criticized the judgment of the BGH (2 StR 375/11, dated November 3, 2011), with which a rocker who had fatally injured a police officer of the SEK in Rhineland-Palatinate after being shot through a closed front door, acquitted on the basis of granted self-defense has been.

Private gun ownership

Under Jansen, the BDK campaigned against private gun ownership . In discussions about gun law , he opposed the gun lobby and fought in conjunction with the Winnenden alliance for stronger gun law tightening. After the rampage in Lörrach , the BDK, through its deputy chairman Bernd Carstensen, demanded that the storage of cartridge ammunition in private homes be prohibited as a milestone in the ban on large-caliber pistols . The BDK found support in the ranks of the SPD, in particular from Katrin Altpeter, as well as in the central party politics of the Left and Greens.

With this opinion, the BDK was in direct contrast to the two larger police unions GdP and DPolG . For security reasons, both unions oppose central arms stores. They advocate more gun controls in private households and better training for police officers. DPolG and GdP also reject further tightening of the gun law .

Telecommunications and New Media

The BDK calls for better opportunities for government bodies to influence the Internet . He justifies this mainly with pedophilia and internet crime . In the past, Klaus Jansen attributed the destructive power of nuclear weapons to the Internet and in 2010 described it as the world's largest crime scene. From the point of view of the BDK, the Federal Chancellery should be given the opportunity to completely or partially disconnect Germany from the Internet in a crisis. This demand was sharply criticized by parts of politics and the media. A spokeswoman for the Chaos Computer Club described the suggestion of a “reset button for the Internet” as “a ridiculous crazy idea” and pointed out that a corresponding step would generally turn off the economy and cut off the population from the flow of information.

The incumbent federal chairman André Schulz has so far been largely more liberal on the subject of telecommunications and the Internet than his predecessor, so he also distanced himself from the demand for a "reset button" for the Internet.

Schulz repeatedly called for the immediate reintroduction of traffic data storage ( data retention ) as an important component in the fight against crime. B. clearly against the planned ACTA agreement. This was created non-transparent, poorly crafted and not specific enough in many points. The intended goal is disproportionate to the existing risk of impending disproportionate restrictions on fundamental rights. Until the legal situation has been fully clarified, ACTA must therefore be rejected.

He also spoke out against the obligation to report cyber attacks, which was requested by Federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich . It is no secret that companies are increasingly turning to their compliance departments and private security companies to represent their interests in the event of damage and not to report crimes to the police. Many companies are now also questioning the efficiency of the police and judiciary in this area. These fears are by no means unjustified, said Schulz. Among other things, the trustful cooperation between investigative authorities and business enterprises that is beginning to be encouraged. The alliance for cybersecurity, which is based on voluntariness and trust, should be expanded further.

In a 15-point program on the Internet and new media, the BDK demanded, in addition to improvements in the equipment of civil servants, an obligation to clearly identify Internet users in cases where the secure handling of legal transactions must be guaranteed .

The BDK continues to demand “legal powers for open and covert investigations on the Internet, especially in social networks such as Facebook , SchülerVZ or Twitter ”. In the context of the discussion about police searches on Facebook, Schulz said that these should be carried out within the strict framework of the legal requirements and should also be carried out due to the increasing spread of the Internet and the search successes to be expected. In the case of searches for persons, however, only as a last resort with special consideration of proportionality and the conscientious examination of each individual case.

Direct entry into the criminal investigation department and the "Criminalistics" course at the German Police University

In addition to the demand for direct entry into the criminal police of the federal states and the development of a professional profile "criminal police", the BDK calls for the introduction of the course in criminal sciences with a focus on criminology at the German Police University (DHPol) in Münster, where the management of the criminal police is specifically responsible for the leadership the criminal police must be trained, as well as the increased recruitment of external experts.

The BDK criticized several times that most of the criminal police in the countries were hopelessly outdated. This threatens that the technical understanding will disappear in a very short time. The question of whether the public service will be able to assert itself in the competition with the private sector for bright young people - precisely the staff who are indispensable for the development of a modern criminal police - will decide how safe Germany is in the future will be and whether the balance between defense and democratic rule of law will succeed. The mix of forensic know-how, practical experience and academic, including forensic science, will be decisive for the quality of the criminal police of the future.

The BDK has repeatedly stated that young people today would decide very precisely whether they should go to the police or to the criminal police. For many, only the use in the police force is attractive, for others only in the criminal police. With the complexity of fighting crime, Germany can no longer allow itself to have the unified police force. The police would lose many young people who do not want to work for years in the riot police or on patrol duty and then want to live with the uncertain career prospects of whether they will one day come to the Kripo - and vice versa. This group of people would prefer not to apply, although it would be an asset to the entire police force. Ideological considerations are out of place here. It is about the best possible training, both for protection officers and for criminal police officers.

In addition to the possibility of being able to take up the profession of criminal investigator directly, the BDK also demands the possibility of changing from the police force as a so-called climber from the middle service with a subsequent criminal investigation university degree and also for members of the higher service after a correspondingly intensive criminalist In criminological training, a change must be possible.

Clan crime

In April 2019, the BDK federal executive board decided on a comprehensive position paper to combat clan crime in Germany. In addition to a definition of the phenomenon and a consideration of the current criminal police situation, the position paper contains suggestions for prevention and repression in 24 sections.

criticism

The Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter is criticized for using attention to crimes or their judicial proceedings to demand more surveillance options for the police. He equates data protection with protection of perpetrators. Many of his demands would interfere with the informational self-determination of the citizens.

Memberships

The federal government is a member of the European Movement Germany network , the German Forum for Crime Prevention and the European Council of Police Unions (CESP).

The Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter is a partner in the Alliance for Cyber ​​Security and in the White IT project and, as part of its association activities, also supports other initiatives, campaigns and institutions, such as the Children's Rights Working Group of the Giordano Bruno Foundation , the task force for effective prevention of Genital Mutilation and the Violence Prevention Network .

Awards

Since 1975, the BDK has awarded the Order of Merit Bul le Mérite to people in public life who have made special and often very different contributions to internal security .

In Schleswig-Holstein, the Nick Knatterton honor cap is humorously awarded every year on Ash Wednesday .

Other police unions

In addition to the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, there is the Police Union (GdP) as a union in the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) and the German Police Union ( DPolG) in the German Federation of Officials (dbb).

The Federal Working Group of Critical Police Officers sees itself as a substantive alternative to the trade union professional associations of the police with a special focus on civil rights issues.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Lörrach: Amok shooter suffocated her son with a plastic bag. Spiegel Online, September 21, 2010, accessed January 15, 2011 .
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  7. ↑ Article Edathy recommends Kripo chief resign ( memento of October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tagesschau online from October 22, 2013. Accessed October 19, 2013.
  8. ^ Article NSU committee chairman criticizes BDK boss . In: N24 online from October 22, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  9. ^ BDK state executive committee for Baden-Württemberg . Retrieved November 26, 2017.
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  11. ^ BDK State Executive Committee Berlin . Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  12. ^ BDK state executive committee for Brandenburg . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  13. ^ BDK state executive committee Bremen . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  14. ^ BDK regional executive committee Hamburg . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  15. ^ BDK state executive committee for Hesse . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  16. ^ BDK state executive committee for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  17. ^ BDK state executive committee for Lower Saxony . Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  18. ^ BDK state executive committee North Rhine-Westphalia . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  19. ^ BDK regional executive committee for Rhineland-Palatinate . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  20. ^ BDK regional board Saarland . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  21. ^ BDK regional executive committee Saxony . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  22. ^ BDK state executive committee for Saxony-Anhalt . Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  23. ^ BDK state executive committee Schleswig-Holstein . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  24. ^ BDK regional committee Thuringia . Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  25. ^ BDK regional executive committee for the Federal Criminal Police Office . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  26. ^ BDK state executive committee for the Federal Police Association . Archived from the original on October 16, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
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  28. ↑ Other members of the federal executive committee . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  29. ↑ core demands . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  30. ↑ Rocker crime at the BDK, as seen on December 10, 2012
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  34. ^ Criticism of the weapons law plans of the Welt.de coalition dated May 13, 2009 - viewed on January 16, 2011.
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  36. ↑ Dispute over gun law flared up again  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. heute.de of September 21, 2010 - accessed on January 16, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heute.de  
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  38. ↑ BDK demands further ban on large-caliber weapons in private hands  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DWJ from November 2010 - accessed on January 16, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / dwj.de  
  39. ↑ Guns and ammunition in private households are deadly BDK-online from March 19, 2010 - viewed on January 16, 2011.
  40. ↑ Much unclear . WDR . September 19, 2010. Archived from the original on September 23, 2010. Retrieved on January 13, 2011.
  41. ↑ Karin Altpeter: Remstalforum Waffenrecht PDF page of the Waiblinger Kreiszeitung from June 18, 2010 in the press menu of the SPD politician - viewed on January 16, 2011.
  42. ↑ Lessons from Winnenden ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on Bundestag.de parliamentary magazine from June 26, 2009 - viewed on January 16, 2011.
  43. ↑ Current information on gun law from the Deutscher Schützenbund dsb.de, viewed on January 16, 2011.
  44. ↑ Speech by Frank Tempel (DIE LINKE) Parliamentary TV from June 18, 2010 - viewed on January 16, 2011.
  45. ↑ No firearms in private households (PDF; 56 kB) Request by LINKEN of March 23, 2009 at the Bundestag - viewed on January 16, 2011.
  46. ↑ Disarmament in private homes (PDF; 72 kB) GRÜNEN's motion of March 25, 2009 at the Bundestag, viewed on January 16, 2011.
  47. ↑ Speech by Wolfgang Wieland (B90 / GRÜNE) Parliamentary TV from June 18, 2010, viewed on January 16, 2011.
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