Hamburg police

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Hamburg police

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State level country
position police
Supervisory authority Ministry of the Interior and Sports of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Headquarters HamburgHamburg Hamburg
Authority management Ralf Martin Meyer ,
police chief
Servants 10,358 (February 1, 2018)
Web presence www.polizei.hamburg.de
Former police chief of the Hamburg police force. Current: see info box above.

The Hamburg Police is the state police of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . It is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior and Sport (Interior Authority ) in the Hamburg Senate . The superior of the police in Hamburg is the President of the Interior Authority, a synonymous term for the Interior Senator .

history

founding

Two police officers in conversation in front of the bakery at Niedernstrasse 29 in Hamburg's old town , around 1910

Until the time of French rule in Hamburg (1806–1814), police tasks were distributed among various institutions. The most important of them were the Bürgerwache and the Wedde . The Wedde was responsible for customs and order, civil status and foreign affairs, the monitoring of weights and measures, the market, health care and many other areas. The praetors were responsible for the lower jurisdiction and security. The Hamburg Admiralty ensured order and security in the port . After Hamburg was annexed to the French Empire, all police tasks were grouped under a general police commissioner by decree.

After the French were driven out, their reforms were immediately reversed by the Senate. However, it quickly became apparent that a well-organized police force was important to maintain order in the turmoil of the post-war period. On May 26, 1814, the police authority was founded by a corresponding Senate resolution . The town house on Neuer Wall was designated as the seat of this authority . A little later the first officials were hired.

The newly created authority, however, was a temporary measure for many years, as the new organization of the police was discussed for a long time. The deliberations only came to a temporary end with the council and citizens' resolution of February 15, 1821: The police authority established in 1814 was initially to continue to exist for a period of 6 years. Two members of the Senate were entrusted with the supervision of the police authority: the first police chief and his deputy, the second police chief.

In 1826, the so-called Competence Act gave the police authority the power to punish minor offenses such as theft, fraud, bodily harm, and resistance to state authority in less serious cases. The sentence was limited to a fine of 15 Reichstaler or 2 months in prison.

post war period

After the end of the Second World War, the military government of the British Zone of Occupation was initially responsible for the police in Hamburg. The presidium was located in the DAG building at today's Johannes-Brahms-Platz until the new building at Berliner Tor was moved into in 1962 .

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The island of Neuwerk is the exclave of the state of Hamburg and can only be reached on the way through Lower Saxony, or down the Elbe, on the border between Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. With the establishment of the state police, the powers of the Hamburg police on the Lower Saxon / Schleswig-Holstein "border river" Elbe between the border with the GDR and the North Sea were contractually regulated very quickly because of the primarily Hamburg target of the Elbe users and the Neuwerk exclave .

Relevant relatives

  • Heinz Krappen, State Police Director from 1989–1995; of which 1991–1995 Head of the Pol Hbg; Died in 2005
  • Stefan Bauer , Mayor of Henstedt-Ulzburg , was a member of the Hamburg police from 1995 to 2013.
  • Fabian Boll , soccer player, has been playing for FC St. Pauli since 2002 .
  • Bruno Claussen , former member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2004 to 2008; was a member of the Hamburg police force from 1970 to 2006.
  • Hartmut Dudde , Police Leader, member of the Hamburg Police Department since 1984, has been in charge of the police force since spring 2018.
  • Reinhard Fallak , Vice President of the Police from 2008 to 2016 and TV presenter, member of the Hamburg police since 1974, detective since 1978.
  • Werner Giese , Hamburg State Police Director from 1979 to 1983, gained national fame through his own humorous radio broadcast and the release of a record with East Prussian jokes.
  • Claus Göttsche , who as head of the Hamburg Gestapo's Jewish Department was significantly involved in the deportation of Hamburg's Jews from 1941 to 1943, was an auxiliary policeman at the Hamburg police authority from 1921 to 1933.
  • Rolf Grunert , BDK Federal Chairman , was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in 1978 as a spy for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR , and in 1985 he became a lecturer at the college of the Ministry for State Security .
  • Jobst Hirscht , member of the Hamburg police force, athlete and winner of the bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics.
  • Werner Jantosch , worked in various functions from 1968 to 2004; was Hamburg's police chief from 2004 to 2012.
  • At the time of National Socialism, Hans Julius Kehrl was police president and air raid leader in Hamburg, SS brigade leader and major general of the police.
  • Heinz Krause , inventor of the traffic jam, worked as a police officer in Hamburg and founded the first police puppet theater here in the 1950s.
  • Joachim Lenders , member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2001 to 2004 and since 2011; Official of the police union in the German Association of Officials .
  • Manfred Mahr , former member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1993 to 2003, member of the Hamburg police since 1975 and here as police chief commissioner employee of the Hamburg traffic department.
  • Ralf Martin Meyer , member of the Hamburg police since 1979, police chief since 2014
  • Hans-Henning von Pressentin , military, politician of the steel helmet and from 1933 Hamburg senator, was from 1919 to 1924 with the Hamburg security police.
  • Erhard Pumm , union official, former member of the Hamburg citizenship, was a police officer with the Hamburg police from 1964 to 1980.
  • Robin Schenk , former member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2001 to 2004; since 1986 member of the Hamburg police force, since 1999 detective.
  • Norbert Schmid was shot dead by members of the Red Army faction in 1971 during an exchange of fire.
  • André Schulz , professional association official, member of the Hamburg criminal police since 2003.
  • Kathrin Wagner-Bockey , member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament since 2017, member of the Hamburg police since 1988.
  • Thomas Wüppesahl , a former member of the Bundestag, was a member of the Hamburg police from 1971 until he was removed from the police force in 2005.
  • Peter Born , from 1971 to 2014 member of the Hamburg police force. From 2005 onwards, he was the responsible police officer in all major police locations in Hamburg.

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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 Hamburg, the Hamburg Law for the Protection of Public Safety and Order (SOG) and the Law on Police Data Processing (PolDVG).

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

organization

In 2013/14, the internal organization was restructured, some of which has not yet been completed. A major change is the organizational separation of the criminal police from the police commissioners, i. H. the local criminal police departments were assigned to the state criminal investigation office.

In spring 2018, large parts of the protection police, essentially the previously independent organizational units “Directorate Police Commissariate and Traffic” and the “Directorate Deployment”, were merged into a joint organizational unit called “Protection Police” (see separate section on this).

Currently (as of November 2018), the Hamburg police are divided into the following departments / organizational units:

Head of the Police Office

  • Police President / Police Vice President

Departments and organizational units

  • Management staff
  • Press and public relations
  • Legal Office
  • staff
  • Protection police
  • State Criminal Police Office
  • Water police
  • Academy of Police
  • Administration and technology
  • Information technology

In addition, the so-called Internal Investigation Department is staffed by officials from the State Criminal Police Office. Organizationally, however, it is part of the State Council of the Ministry of the Interior and Sport, also to ensure the independence of this investigative service, which u. a. for all criminal offenses that are investigated by civil servants of the city.

staff

ID card of the Hamburg police
  • 9,851 employees, including:
    • 6,606 of the protection police, 1,566 of them female
    • 1,527 of the criminal police, 430 of them female
    • 498 of the water police, 19 of them female
    • 1,219 in general administration, 660 of them women

30 law enforcement officers, 11 employees (employees according to TV-L) in the police service and 23 employees in general administration with foreign nationality work in the Hamburg police force.

Bureau

Police headquarters in Winterhude
Hamburg's most famous guard: the PK 15, which is officially allowed to use the name Davidwache .
Police station Oberaltenallee, PK 31 (until 2009) ( Mundsburg )
PK 35 in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel
Boat of the water police, here in the Osterbek Canal

The police headquarters in Hamburg was from 1962 in Berlin skyscraper Gate accommodated. Since January 2000 it has been in the new building at Bruno-Georges-Platz 1 in Winterhude . It is located directly at the Alsterdorf underground station, close to City Nord and the Hamburg city park .

Bruno Georges was Hamburg's first police chief appointed after the end of the Second World War. He and other police presidents are included in the list of Hamburg police presidents . The building, a round structure with ten blocks attached in a star shape, was designed by BRT architects (Jens Bothe, Kai Richter and Hadi Teherani ). The topping-out ceremony took place in 1998. The construction costs amounted to around 280 million euros.

Protection Police (SP)

The SP was launched in the spring of 2018 and bundled the previously existing areas of "Deployment Directorate (DE)" and "Police Commissioner and Traffic Directorate (DPV)". The so-called

The specialist staff of the police force is divided into the following areas:

  • SP 1 - Situation Center
  • SP 2 - use
  • SP 3 - principle
  • SP 4 - administrative coordination
  • SP 5 - Assembly Authority

In the SP, all eight regions are connected with their police departments.

Middle I region

Police commissioners (PK) 11, 14, 15 and 16 are located here.

Middle region II

This consists of the PK 41 and 42.

Altona region

PK 21, 25 and 26 are assigned to this area.

Bergedorf region

PK 43 also forms the Bergedorf region. No other PK is assigned to it.

Harburg region

PK 44, 46 and 47 are assigned to the region.

Eimsbüttel region

PK 23, 17, 24 and 27 are summarized here.

North region

This consists of PK 31, 33, 34 and 36.

Wandsbek region

These include PK 37, 35 and 38.

It is a separate department

Traffic Directorate

Here are the

  • Traffic relay (including the so-called traffic accident service, which records serious traffic accidents and then processes them)

and the central

as well as the area

settled.

A sub-unit of the traffic relay is the bicycle relay.

Organizationally, the bicycle relay is affiliated with the traffic department downtown / west. The main task of the bicycle relay is to reduce bicycle accidents through targeted measures. In addition to the daily patrol duty of the ten employees in the entire Hamburg city area, major inspections of cyclists take place once a month. Public relations are part of the extended prevention work of the bicycle relay. For example, information stands are set up at a wide variety of trade fairs to provide information about securing bicycles, bicycle safety and equipment regulations, among other things.

There are also the following areas of application in particular:

  • Traffic-related or structural defects in cycling facilities are reported to the responsible authorities.
  • Patrol of leisure facilities and parks and searches in impassable terrain
  • Control of cycle paths
  • Presence at locations with a high number of cyclists
  • Safety on the way to school

State riot police

The riot police are housed in the former Hindenburg barracks on Hindenburgstrasse in Winterhude .

  • Pictures of the former barracks

  • Entrance to the Hamburg riot police

  • Facade detail with sculptures

  • Facade detail with sculptures

  • Old main entrance to the Hindenburg barracks

Bet hundreds

The state riot police consists of the (administrative) staff and the deployments of 1, 2, 3 and 4 as well as the 5th (technical) hundred. The deployment hun- dreds are each divided into four platoons and the supply service / management group. The 5th Hundred consists of 2 evidence preservation and arrest units (BFE) and 2 technical operations units (TEE) (SEZ: water cannons / special vehicles).

In addition, there is the Hamburg Alarm Department (AAH) in Hamburg, which consists of merged units from all police stations. The AAH is divided into 4 hundreds.

Helicopter squadron

The helicopter squadron is organizationally affiliated with the riot police.

Since November 2004 the helicopter squadron has had two Eurocopter 135 helicopters , which are registered under the registrations D-HONE and D-HTWO. They carry the ICAO code "LIB" and are called under the callsign "Libelle".

The helicopter is able to reach any point within Hamburg in 7 minutes. The flight time to the mouth of the Elbe near Cuxhaven (approx. 90 km) is approx. 25 minutes.

Range of tasks of the helicopter squadron:

  • Monitoring / steering of road traffic
  • Monitoring in the field of environmental protection
  • Education of all kinds, also in disaster control and for the fire brigade
  • Photo flights for the State Criminal Police Office and other offices
  • Immediate operations like:
    • Persecutions
    • Manhunt
    • Search for people
    • Illumination of emergency rooms at night
    • Special operations with the mobile task force

The thermal imaging camera, which was first introduced to the Hamburg police force, will make many of these tasks even more effective in the future and can also be carried out increasingly at night.

Equestrian relay

35 years after the rider squadron of the police in Hamburg was abolished in 1975, the Senate reintroduced it in September 2010.

At the end of 2011, the cavalry unit was incorporated into the state riot police. After a controversial discussion u. a. Triggered by an audit by the State Audit Office, an expert opinion in 2012 confirmed the police and economic benefits of the Reiterstaffel and thus ensured its continued existence.

medical service

The state riot police also include the medical service. This consists of the medical practice and the riot police.

State Criminal Police Office

Water police

Police boat 20 "Amerikahöft"

The field of activity of the water police (WSP) includes general and shipping police tasks as well as those in road traffic and in various specialist areas, such as port security, shipping on the Lower Elbe and Middle Elbe, the environment , dangerous goods and border control .

The WSP has three water police commissioners' offices in Hamburg (WSPK 1 Hamburg-Waltershof , WSPK 2 Steinwerder , WSPK 3 Harburg ) and a water police station (WSPR 4) in Cuxhaven , as well as 2 branches (ASt) of WSPK 2 ( Landungsbrücken and Alster ).

It is responsible for the navigable water areas in Hamburg, on all land areas in the port, on parts of the coastal sea and on the Elbe from its mouth at Cuxhaven upstream to the Geesthacht lock.

Police orchestra

The police orchestra is organizationally involved in the press and public relations work .

The police music corps in the traditional sense has become a modern orchestra over the decades. Furthermore, great emphasis is placed on traditional, folk repertoire such as marches or waltzes.

The different ensembles of the Hamburg Police Orchestra:

  • Big band that presents hits by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Glenn Miller as well as funk and soul
  • Clarinet quintet that plays classical music as well as ragtime
  • Egerland brass music with folk mood music
  • Dixieland band
  • Brass ensemble with baroque and church music
  • Dance combo

It finds u. a. regular cooperation with the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) on programs such as “ Hamburger Hafenkonzert ” or on NDR television.

Joint airport guard with the federal police

On December 8, 2008, the nationwide first joint airport guard was officially inaugurated at Hamburg Airport by the President of the Hanover Federal Police Directorate, Thomas Osterroth, Interior Senator Christoph Ahlhaus, and Police Vice President Reinhard Fallak. The new guard is located on the departures level at the transition from Terminal 2 to the identity check of the Federal Police. The police station is manned daily from 4:30 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. by officers from the Hamburg police and the federal police .

A so-called security guard has also been set up at Hamburg Central Station, in which both the Federal Police and Hamburg police officers work.

Police museum

The former teaching material collection of the state police school was closed in 2006 due to a necessary building renovation in the Alsterdorf property. The exhibits from the collection, which documents more than 100 years of criminal and police history, first had to be relocated. The new Hamburg Police Museum was opened on February 28, 2014 in the former farm building on the grounds of the State Police School, Carl-Cohn-Straße 39, with a significantly expanded exhibition area. The involvement of the Hamburg police in the Holocaust through the murders of Reserve Battalion 101 is mentioned in the exhibition.

education

Academy of Police Hamburg

Since October 1, 2013, the Hamburg Police Academy has been the central training and further education facility of the Hamburg Police Department with an integrated university area. The legal basis for this is the law on the realignment of training and further training for the Hamburg police force. The academy bundles the training in the three career stages as well as the advanced and advanced training of the Hamburg police force under one roof. The previous University of the Police in Hamburg (HdP) became part of the academy as a technical college; The State Police School was also transferred to the Academy as the oldest training facility for the Hamburg police force. At the academy, the qualification for career segment I (formerly middle service), for career segment II (formerly senior service) and partly also for career segment III (comparable to formerly higher service) is carried out. In addition, the academy offers further and advanced training for all members of the police.

Water police school

The water police school is located in the port of Hamburg, but is not part of Hamburg, but is a central training facility for the water police in the 15 federal states ( Thuringia does not have a water police). The staff is provided by all participating countries. For the training and further education u. a. a modern ship driving simulator is available.

Police officer in blue police uniform

uniform

At the end of 2004 / beginning of 2005 the blue police uniform was introduced in Hamburg .

The police in the states of Schleswig-Holstein , Bremen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Thuringia and Lower Saxony adopted the blue uniform of the Hamburg police. The uniform model is also used abroad, the municipal police of Baden in Austria has been using this model since 2007, but with the local rank badge .

Patrol cars or classic Peterwagen Mercedes-Benz E-Class and BMW 3 Series not shown current signal yellow Warnbeklebung - in blue-silver color scheme

equipment

vehicles

As of December 31, 2010

Motorcycle patrol of the Hamburg police
  • 237 patrol cars
  • 111 crew vans and minibuses
  • 491 civil cars
  • 44 motorcycles
  • 29 Commercial vehicles and trailers
  • 144 special vehicles
Patrol car or classic Peter car Mercedes-Benz E-Class in a blue-silver color scheme with new signal yellow warning stickers
Group car of the state riot police Hamburg
Half-group vehicles of the state riot police Hamburg (in use since the beginning of 2015.)
"Mayor Weichmann" for the service on the Lower Elbe

The Hamburg police mainly use Mercedes-Benz , Volkswagen and BMW vehicles as official vehicles . Occasionally, vehicles from other manufacturers such as Ford , Fiat and Opel are also used.

Current police cars are Mercedes-Benz E-Class , Mercedes-Benz Vito , VW Passat B6 , VW Passat B7 , VW Sharan , VW Touran , VW T4 , BMW 3 Series and BMW 5 Series touring.

Current strip motorcycles are BMW R 1200 RT .

Coloring

In the course of the color change, new vehicles in the color scheme blue-silver or blue-white will be procured. The first blue and silver patrol cars were introduced in mid-2002. In 2004, retroreflective contour markings called " GAPS " were also introduced. Patrol cars and emergency vehicles are now only available in blue-silver or blue-white colors. Since around the middle of 2018 - as in many other federal states - bright yellow foils have also been glued to the patrol cars in order to increase visibility and thus safety.

particularities

In contrast to all other German federal and state police forces , the hoods of the Hamburg police patrol cars are not covered with blue foil, as is usual. Instead, there is only a black, non-retro-reflective, police lettering on a silver background. This peculiarity only applies to national purchases, i.e. H. only for vehicles of the Hamburg State Police. The vehicles of the riot police are federal procurements d. H. As is common nationwide, the hoods of these vehicles are covered with blue foil.

Peter car

For the origin of the word see patrol car .

The name Peterwagen is colloquially a radio patrol car of the Hamburg police.

Boats

The Hamburg water police operates 17 boats of the following types:

  • Inflatables
  • Civil protection boats
  • Relief boats
  • Light harbor patrol boats (length: 17.75 m, width: 4.90 m, one engine with 346 kW)
  • Heavy patrol boats (length: 17.65 m, width: 4.90 m, engine with 571 hp)
  • Stretch patrol boats
  • Coastal strip boats

Weapons and other equipment

source

Operational means of communication

  • 8,182 radios
  • 1,790 cell phones
source

computer

  • 6,500 PCs, 5,750 of which are networked

Body cam

Since June 19, 2015, police officers from the Hamburg Police Department have been patrolling St. Pauli every weekend in teams of five. One of the officers is equipped with a shoulder camera ( body cam ) and a recording and display module. The camera is operated with a radio remote control on the wrist.

statistics

As of December 31, 2010

Calls

  • 490,400 missions, i.e. H. 1,344 per day

Total annual mileage

  • 17.7 million kilometers
  • Fuel costs around € 2,400,000
  • Workshop costs around € 2,500,000

Others

The Hamburg police appointed the following celebrities as "honorary commissioners":

See also

literature

  • N / A : Commemorative publication for the centenary of the Hamburg Police Department on May 26, 1914. [Persiehl], [Hamburg] 1914, DNB 579381102 .
  • Herbert Diercks : Documentation Stadthaus - The Hamburg Police under National Socialism. Edited by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Hamburg 2012, DNB 1019393483 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ POL-HH: 100128-1. Attention! - Embargo until the appointment! ( Memento from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: presseportal.de, January 28, 2010.
  2. ^ A b Insa Gall: Hamburg has a new police headquarters. In: welt.de . January 7, 2000, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Black and green police star. Topping-out ceremony at the police headquarters in Hamburg. In: baunetz.de, December 8, 1998, accessed March 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Small written question from MP Antje Möller (GAL) from February 19, 2007, citizenship printed matter 18/5850 from February 27, 2007.
  5. Jump up ↑ The Hamburg police on patrol for the first time. on: hamburg.de, September 29, 2010.
  6. ↑ Incorporation into the LBP. In: Hamburger Polizei Journal (HPJ). 11/2011, p. 10  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (no mementos). - Kai von Appen: Hamburger Reiterstaffel before the end: future on the pasture. In: taz . July 1, 2012, accessed March 30, 2020.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hamburg.de
  7. ↑ Report: The horses remain in the police force. In: The world. 19th September 2012.
  8. ↑ Hamburg: Nationwide first joint airport police station opened. ( Memento from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press release by the Hamburg police, December 8, 2008.
  9. ↑ Police Museum Hamburg. hamburg.de, accessed on March 2, 2014 .
  10. ^ City and community police ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: polizeisammler.de .
  11. ↑ Baden City Police Activity Report 2017 ( Memento from October 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.1 MB) In: baden.at, accessed on March 30, 2020.
  12. ↑ a b c d e Police report 2010. Police Hamburg, December 31, 2010.
  13. ↑ Boats of the Hamburg water police. WSP fleet. In: polizei.hamburg. Police of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on October 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Peter-Michael Ziegler: Hamburg police with body cams: "Attention, record!" In: heise.de . June 19, 2015, accessed November 17, 2015 .