Police at the German Bundestag

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Police at the German Bundestag
BTPol

Police officers at the German Bundestag
State level Federation
position Department of the Bundestag administration
Supervisory authority President of the Bundestag
founding April 1950 as house inspection of the administration of the German Bundestag
Headquarters BerlinBerlin Berlin
Servants 210 positions
Web presence bundestag.de/polizei

The police at the German Bundestag (officially abbreviated BTPol , colloquially also Bundestag police or parliamentary police ) is the police responsible for the area of ​​the German Bundestag . You shall they learn the German Bundestag President upon it by Art. 40 para. 2 of the Basic Law transmitted police violence in the buildings and on the premises of the Bundestag from. Since the aforementioned provision of the Basic Law expressly assigns sole police power to the President of the Bundestag, other police authorities and the public prosecutor's office are not responsible here.

From a historical point of view, the unrestricted domiciliary rights , the immunity of the MPs and the own police force establish the sovereignty of the parliament as well as the protection of the parliament against all other state powers. The presidents of the state parliaments also have similar rights. However, they do not have any independent police authorities that are comparable to the federal police.

history

Senior police officer of the Bundestag police

The establishment of the police was a lesson from the events during and immediately before the rule of the Nazi regime in Germany. At the present time there were already similar regulations in the constitutions of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic , but the President of Parliament only received a police force under his own responsibility after the constitution of the Federal Republic.

In 1949, in the founding year of the Federal Republic of Germany, security tasks in parliament were taken over by detectives on behalf of the then President of the Bundestag, Erich Köhler . Soon, however, the organizing committee of the Bundestag recommended setting up a separate security service for the house. Köhler created the house inspection as such in April 1950, a few months later it worked as a housekeeping service, or HOD for short. In addition to security tasks, the staff, who wore a green armband with the inscription "House security service" to make them easy to recognize, also took on tasks as ushers. However, the HOD was not entrusted with regular police tasks, which at the time was taken over by the Federal Criminal Police Office , but based its measures solely on the house rules . As a result, the HOD, as the “house police”, had no more powers than the Reichstag security service during the Weimar Republic.

On December 31, 1960, the housekeeping service was incorporated into the Federal Police Officer Act, but only in a cautious manner was it given police executive powers. In the course of the "Small Parliamentary Reform" that took place in 1969, the HOD was given its original name "House Inspection". In the 1970s, in view of the terrorist acts of the Red Army faction , which ended in the so-called German autumn, this was upgraded to a “real” enforcement agency with a police character. In 1975 the staff of the house inspection was expanded to include officers from the Federal Border Police. In addition, for the first time, their officers were given the authority to arrest people and confiscate evidence .

In 1989 the President of the Bundestag Rita Süssmuth changed the name of the house inspection to "Police and Security Service at the German Bundestag". Along with this measure, the Bundestag security service received for the first time the “appropriate respect” from many colleagues from other police authorities for being such, according to Bundestag police officer Ralph Igel in the magazine for parliamentary questions .

tasks

The area of ​​responsibility of the police at the German Bundestag includes the defense against dangers to public safety and order , in particular dangers to the ability of parliament and its organs and committees to work , for all persons present in parliament as well as the prosecution of criminal offenses and administrative offenses . However, they are only investigators for the public prosecutor's office in individual cases - with the approval of the President of the Bundestag . The rights and duties of the officers are not regulated in a law, as is the case with the other police forces, but were determined by a decree of the President of the Bundestag. However, the decree contains the provisions of a model police law of the Conference of Interior Ministers .

organization

The Bundestag police are part of the Bundestag administration . Division ZR 3 (police and security tasks) is responsible. The exercises are from - planned - 210 officials are perceived in the police service, of which 180 in shifts in five service groups as posts and strips to be used.

In September 2019, the police at the German Bundestag comprised 187 officers, three of them in the higher service, 35 in the higher service and 149 in the middle service. Of the 149 middle-class officials, 30 were supporters of the federal police with the federal police.

The Bundestag Police work daily with the Berlin State Police and also frequently with the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police .

staff

recruitment

Police officers of the federal and state governments can apply for the Bundestag police. Since September 1, 2013, the police at the German Bundestag have been training for the first time, with the support of the Federal Police, even for the intermediate service in the branch of the Federal Police Academy in Neustrelitz . The police officers of the Bundestag are police officers of the federal government in accordance with Section 1 (2) of the Federal Police Officer Act . The official titles are those of the police , but have the addition "at the German Bundestag".

Careers

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The service is divided into the middle, higher and higher police enforcement service.

The official titles of the police officers differed considerably from those of other police officers and were changed with the renaming in 1994.

Official title from 1969 to 1994 Official title from 1994 Grade
Medium Grade
Sergeant in the house inspection of the German Bundestag omitted A 5
Oberwachtmeister in the house inspection of the German Bundestag A 5 with allowance
Main sergeant in the house inspection of the German Bundestag A 6
Master in the house inspection of the German Bundestag Police chief at the German Bundestag A 7
Obermeister in the house inspection of the German Bundestag Police chief at the German Bundestag A 8
Chief foreman in the house inspection of the German Bundestag Police chief at the German Bundestag A 9
Higher service
Commissioner in the house inspection of the German Bundestag Police commissioner at the German Bundestag A 9
High Commissioner in the House Inspection of the German Bundestag Police chief commissioner at the German Bundestag A 10
Main commissioner in the house inspection of the German Bundestag Police chief commissioner at the German Bundestag A 11 and A 12
First chief commissioner in the house inspection of the German Bundestag First police chief commissioner at the German Bundestag A 13
Higher service
Police council at the German Bundestag A 13
Higher Police Council at the German Bundestag A 14
Police director at the German Bundestag A 15

equipment

uniform

Since the beginning of the 1950s, police officers have performed their duties mainly in civilian clothes; They can be recognized by their openly worn green ID card, which bears the inscription "Police". In the public areas they also wore black jackets with the words “Police” or bright blue safety vests with “Police” lettering on the chest and back if necessary . In October 2018, a new uniform based on that of the Federal Police was introduced, as the need for a more visible presence had grown. The national emblem on the left sleeve, however, is not the black federal eagle in gold, as is the case with the federal police, but the silver eagle of the Bundestag.

Armament

The police officers always wield a pistol when on duty, and a submachine gun if specially ordered. In addition, the police at the German Bundestag have bullet-resistant vests and police helmets.

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c sas: Practicing for use in the smallest police district. In: Bundestag (website) . August 5, 2014, accessed August 13, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g sas: The President of the Bundestag as police chief. In: Bundestag (website) . August 5, 2014, accessed August 13, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Around the clock security in the Bundestag . In: The Parliament , 8/2008
  4. ↑ "We protect politicians". In: mitmischen.de - Your portal to the German Bundestag. September 25, 2019, accessed June 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ German Bundestag - police candidate in the middle police enforcement service . In: German Bundestag (ed.): Bundestag.de . ( bundestag.de [accessed December 5, 2017]).
  6. ^ Ordinance on careers for the police force at the German Bundestag
  7. ^ German Bundestag, Section Z: New uniforms for the parliamentary police of the German Bundestag. In: German Bundestag. German Bundestag. Online Services, October 9, 2018, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Instructions for the police enforcement service (DA-PVD)