German Police Sports Board

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German Police Sports Board
Founded November 3, 1949
Place of foundation Frankfurt am Main
Chairman Ralf Flohr
Members 220,700
Association headquarters Fulda
Homepage www.dpsk.de

The German Police Sports Board (DPSK) is the umbrella organization for police sports in Germany . The four pillars of professional sport include training of conditional and coordinative skills , training of special skills and techniques, competitive sport, especially health and prevention sport.

History and profile of the German Police Sports Board

The German Police Sports Board (DPSK) was founded on November 3, 1949, just under half a year after the Basic Law was promulgated . At that time, the representatives of eight federal states met in Frankfurt am Main and made the decision to create an umbrella organization for the development, design and promotion of police sport in the Federal Republic of Germany.

According to the federal-state agreement on the structure and tasks of the German Police Sports Board, common police sports interests in the Federal Republic of Germany are taken care of by the DPSK. The DPSK advises the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the ministers and senators of the federal states responsible for the police on all fundamental questions of internal and external police sport.

In the past few years a lot has changed due to the changing times - not only in the sporting field. Since 1991 all 16 federal states as well as the federal government have carried the federal-state agreement signed by all.

As a "sports association with special tasks", the DPSK is a member of the German Sports Association (now DOSB). The importance of the cooperation with the DOSB and its member associations is evident both in public relations and in the valuable exchange of information and experience.

The DPSK organizes German Police Championships (DPM), nominates athletes and teams for European Police Championships (EPM) and World Police Championships. From 1996 to 2012 the DPSK was a member of the international police sport association Union Sportive Internationale des Polices (USIP).

Police championship winners medal

Structure and structure of the German Police Sports Board

Members of the DPSK are the federal government and the 16 federal states, each of which appoints a police sports officer as their representative. The sports officers elect the chairman of the DPSK and two deputies from among their number. The chairmanship should change every two years.

There is a technical committee for questions relating to sports technology, which consists of the main sportsman and the specialist attendant. Specialists for the following sports are appointed to the technical committee:

Cross and street running, soccer , handball , athletics , marathon running , shooting , swimming and rescue, self-defense ( judo , ju-jutsu ), triathlon and volleyball . There is also a specialist for health and preventive sports.

The sports mentioned below are entered in the DPSK's "competition calendar". In team sports, there are German police championships for both men and women, which are organized by the federal states or the federal government:

National open competitions can be held to check whether another sport should be introduced into the championship program.

It is also the task of the DPSK to select and dispatch the participants for the European Police Championships in the sports mentioned below.

The Board of Trustees will decide on a case-by-case basis about sending participants to EPM in other sports. Organizers of the European Police Championships is the European Police Sports Federation (USPE). The competition calendar lists the competitive sports of the DPSK and the resulting championships - the German Police Championships (DPM) and the European Police Championships (EPM) as well as the Federal Open Competitions (BOW) and the German Police Cups (DPC).

Since January 1, 2019, the DPSK office has been in Fulda (Hesse). Department director Ralf Flohr (Head of the Deployment Department in the East Hesse Police Headquarters and representative of the Police President), who is also the Police Sports Officer for Hesse, was elected as the new chairman.

The DPSK also continued to develop on the international stage. On the occasion of the 4th Congress of the USPE (Union Sportive des Polices d'Europe) on September 5, 1954 in Stockholm, the DPSK joined the European Police Sports Association. The aim of the USPE is to promote sport within all police forces in Europe and to coordinate the preparation, implementation and control of international competitions in currently 16 sports disciplines. The General Secretariat of the USPE has been in Germany since 1995. The business premises are in Berlin. The USPE currently consists of 40 European nations.

The first early German police championships took place in Hanau from September 22 to 23, 1951. In the following year 1952 the venue was Augsburg.

Web links

Commons : Deutsches Polizeisportkuratorium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory survey 2019 (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The history of the DPSK , on: dpsk.de, accessed November 1, 2017
  3. ↑ Competitive Sports - German Police Championships (DPM) ( Memento from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), on: dpsk.de, accessed May 20, 2017
  4. ↑ European Police Sports Championships, on: dpsk.de, accessed November 1, 2017 (488 kB)
  5. ↑ Competition calendar, on: dpsk.de, accessed May 20, 2017