INPOL-new

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INPOL-neu is the cross-state information system (networked database) of German police forces at the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), which replaced the outdated INPOL system in 2003 . INPOL-new is also a network system and consists of the two areas INPOL-central at the Federal Criminal Police Office and the INPOL-Land system operated by the respective state police (also referred to as POLAS or POLIS in many federal states ).

Development history

By the end of the 1980s, the INPOL police database , which was introduced uniformly across the country , had reached its technical limits . In 1992 the redesign was decided. In May 1995 the rough technical concept for the successor system was presented. A group of 130 people has been working on the project at the BKA since 1996. Programming started in 1998.

The rough and detailed concept of INPOL-neu was carried out from 1996 to 1999 by the management consultancy Mummert Consulting (integrated into the French Steria group in 2005). The implementation was initially developed (until at least 2001) by the system house debis , later by the Telekom subsidiary T-Systems . In a first test run in April 2001, the INPOL-new system, originally developed by the Federal Criminal Police Office , collapsed after a few minutes and crashed.

A damning report by the international consulting firm KPMG found that the system was too immature and too complex. A reduction in complexity has been proposed by reducing functionality. In October 2001, the project threatened to completely overturn. As a result, the BKA designed a new version based on the POLAS computer system developed and operated by Hesse and Hamburg . This happened under Harald Lemke , the then IT director of the BKA, who was already able to successfully apply the POLAS project to the Hamburg police .

The nationwide uniform information system INPOL-neu was only launched in 2003 with a two-year delay. It has thus finally replaced the INPOL -aktuell system from 1972 .

The new application is graphics-capable for the first time and can thus display image files of people. The INPOL-neu 5.0 application has been in operation since 2006 , and the software is developed and operated by the Federal Criminal Police Office.

costs

According to press reports, the poor coordination between the federal and state governments cost taxpayers around 50 million euros . The Federal Audit Office put the costs for INPOL-new at around 60 million euros.

The magazine Focus reported in 2001 (citing BKA insiders) that at least 140 million DM had been added to the planned costs of 100 million marks.

Contents, structure and tasks

All important reports on criminal offenses and offenders that are not only local or regional in character are saved in INPOL-neu.

For example, the authorities involved are allowed to save police-relevant information about criminals, accused, suspects, potential criminals, but also about contact and accompanying persons, witnesses, whistleblowers, victims and missing persons.

Two databases are made available via INPOL-neu: One for criminal investigation and a file for standard inquiries. In addition to coping with police applications, cross-references between several suspects, crime scenes and crime weapons should also be possible.

INPOL-neu should also be able to automatically create a network of relationships between wanted persons, objects and open cases.

The system enables inquiries, for example for a radio patrol on site or for a border control at a German airport, on the following questions:

  • Who is wanted?
  • What is the search for?
  • Do you have an arrest warrant ?
  • Are foreign authorities investigating?
  • Are you suspected of belonging to a criminal organization?
  • Is an item stolen?

The tasks and functions of INPOL-neu include:

  • Search system
  • Information and research system

Access, data exchange and data transmission

INPOL-new is accessed either via the specific AGIL access software (more precisely: via the software agreed in the INPOL-Land working group ) or directly via the case processing system of a federal state or federal state.

Connected to INPOL-new are:

The employees of these authorities have different levels of access to INPOL-new. The different access to the database should be regulated via hierarchical access authorizations so that not every user can receive all information.

The vast majority of the data newly processed in INPOL comes from the connection of the databases operated by the state police.

INPOL-neu provides access to national and international databases:

In addition, there is, among other things, the possibility of direct access to external data sources:

facts and figures

Police officers can access INPOL-neu from 270,000 workplaces throughout Germany. Ideally, every police station should be connected.

As of October 1, 2015, the INPOL wanted person file contained the following items:

In the INPOL property search file there are around 16 million items that are searched for because of a possible connection with criminal offenses. The inventory includes about:

As with INPOL-alt, the database includes alias personal details and criminal records.

Legal basis

BKA law

The Federal Criminal Police Office operates INPOL-neu in its role as the central office for the electronic data network between the federal government and the federal states. The network file is regulated in Section 29 of the BKA Act .

Data protection aspects

With INPOL-new, all data is stored in a common data pool and state and federal files are no longer as clearly separated from each other as in INPOL. Since the once entered data must legally remain in the possession of the federal states, the planned central storage on behalf of the federal states at the BKA is at least controversial in terms of data protection law.

The police laws (state level) stipulate that state data should only be used in the states. Primarily for reasons of data protection law, data protectors have been warning since 1999, in view of a now central database at the BKA, to observe graduated user authorizations and pseudonymisation functions. The extent to which this has been implemented is officially not reliably known or verified.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bottomless pit , Telepolis, January 25, 2001
  2. ↑ INPOL project of the Federal Criminal Police Office before the end? ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Computerwoche, 43/2001, October 2001  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.computerwoche.de
  3. ↑ BKA takes over police software from Hamburg and Hesse , heise online, February 1, 2002
  4. ↑ Schily: Conversion to the new police computer system completed , heise online, August 18, 2003
  5. ↑ IT project of the police - a tale of suffering ( memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Computerwoche, 41/2007, October 2007  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.computerwoche.de
  6. ^ BKA because of new computer system with deficit , heise online, February 18, 2001
  7. ^ New police computer system as simple as the Internet , heise online, March 13, 2002
  8. ^ German police get a new computer network , PC-Welt, August 1, 2003
  9. ↑ Electronic search and information systems. (No longer available online.) Federal Criminal Police Office, archived from the original on April 21, 2016 ; Retrieved April 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bka.de
  10. ↑ BKA admits massive difficulties with the new computer system (update) , heise online, April 9, 2001
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