Police station
The police station ( PRev ) is an office of the protection police in the state police of Baden-Württemberg , Brandenburg , Bremen , Hessen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein , which carries out enforcement police tasks in a geographically defined area . There are also police stations at the Federal Police.
Baden-Württemberg
In Baden-Württemberg, the police stations are subordinate to the regional police headquarters . In addition to the police stations, there are also motorway police stations . In the case of the water police , the comparable structure is the water police station . Special tasks of the traffic police are performed by the traffic police departments, which are subordinate to the regional police headquarters.
The police station is divided into the head, the leadership group , the service groups and the district service and, if necessary, the police station.
As a rule, five (but at least four) duty groups are set up, which work around the clock according to a uniform national changing shift duty roster or according to special, local working time models. The officers of the service groups do the patrol duty , take over the first action in all operational situations, are partly also responsible for the processing of cases of simple crime, monitor the traffic and are also predominantly deployed in the recording and processing of traffic accidents.
The district service is responsible for handling cases of simple and moderate crime and usually works on a day-to-day basis.
Police posts are mostly set up in city districts or in smaller places in the vicinity of a police station and, in contrast to the police station, are only manned during the day. However, some posts also have shift work. Service groups or investigation groups are then also set up there. Police posts with a 24-hour service can be found primarily in the area of the police headquarters in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Mannheim. The tasks of a police station are varied and usually include the entire spectrum of protection police work.
Police stations are to be set up in such a way that it is possible to arrive at all possible locations of the incident within 15 minutes at the latest.
The Ministry of the Interior has set the following requirements for the establishment of police posts:
- Minimum number: five law enforcement officers
- 1 law enforcement officer for 5,000 residents
- Posts at a distance of up to 2 km from the district may only be set up if there is a special need at the location due to local hot spots with above-average advertising volume and public traffic.
- Posts with alternating shifts may only be set up if the distance to the next area is more than 20 km and if there is a high number of operations outside of the day shift.
The motorway police station is also divided into the head, the leadership group, the service groups and the investigation service. This is z. B. responsible for accident escape investigations . At some motorway police stations there are still control groups (task areas of express traffic and commercial passenger and freight traffic) and an investigation service. Control groups with the task of commercial passenger and freight traffic are responsible for monitoring commercial traffic. For example, they check trucks and buses for road safety and also check that driving and rest times are being adhered to . Control groups with the task of express traffic are responsible for the prosecution of administrative offenses and criminal offenses . For this they use z. B. Video cars and measure distances between vehicles and bridges.
The water police station is structured like the motorway police station . In addition, there are water police posts here and in Karlsruhe there is also the specialist service for dangerous goods control .
Federal Police
With the reorganization on March 1, 2008, federal police stations (BPOLR) were set up below the federal police inspections. In contrast to the state police stations, they are dependent organizational units of the federal police inspections. In the course of the reform, previous inspections were renamed the federal police station. Before the reform, smaller federal police stations were referred to as operational sections. Due to their earlier status, some federal police stations have an investigation service, manhunt service and service dog handlers with service dogs.
Due to the aforementioned background, the strength of the staff in the federal police stations varies in the service groups. As a rule, the federal police officers perform their duties according to an alternating shift schedule in five duty groups, so that the police stations belong to the police stations in Germany that are manned 24 hours a day.
In addition, where necessary, the Federal Police has service rooms which, however, are not independent offices, but are branch offices of the actual Federal Police Inspectorate. At that time, the deployment sections at the headquarters of the inspection are now referred to as service areas at the headquarters of the inspection.
As part of the integrative performance of tasks , the federal police stations below the federal police inspections perform the police tasks in the areas of border protection, aviation security, railway police and other tasks according to the Federal Police Act. For example, some federal police stations with a focus on railway police tasks are also responsible for border protection on smaller airfields and landing fields in the interior of the country. Conversely, areas at German airports with international air traffic carry out railway police tasks.
In Directorate Federal Maritime Police , there is no federal police stations.
