Klaus Jansen (association official)

Klaus Jansen (2008)

Klaus Jansen (BDK) and Dr. Günther Beckstein, then Bavarian Minister of the Interior, in Erding (2008)

Klaus Jansen (born March 9, 1955 ) is a German detective and professional association official. From 2003 to August 2011 he was federal chairman of the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK), until he was finally relieved of his office following criticism of his management style at the instigation of several regional associations of the BDK

Police career

Jansen began in 1972 with the Hamburg State Police the preparatory service for the middle civil servant career, afterwards he worked from 1975 with the Hamburg riot police . In 1977 he switched to the Hamburg criminal police, in order to complete the degree for promotion to the higher service from 1979 to 1982 at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration Hamburg. After passing his career test, Jansen worked as an undercover investigator in state security offenses until 1983 , before he took over the Mobile Operations Command (MEK) / Special Operations Command (SEK) Hamburg as a train driver until 1986. From 1986 to 1989 he was an international investigator in narcotics matters at the BKA . From 1989 to 1994 he worked as a drug liaison officer for the BKA at the German embassy in the USA and at the same time as an observer for the Organization of American States (COAS).

From 1994 to 1996 he was employed in the BKA as an anti-terrorist investigator for Europe and America. In 1996 he became a BKA liaison officer at the German embassy in Kiev and a right-wing extremist investigator at the BKA.

From 1997 to 1999 he worked again as a counter-terrorism investigator at the BKA, where he was responsible for the Dev Sol area . From 1999 to 2002 he was head of the MEK coordination office at the BKA.

Union background

Klaus Jansen became a member of the BDK in 1978 . From 1996 to 1999 he was Deputy Chairman of the BKA Association. In 1997 he was also a member of the federal executive board. In 1999 he became chairman of the BKA association in the BDK. At the same time, from 2000 he was a leading member of the board of the CESP (Conseil Européen des Syndicats de Police), which has around 23,000 members and is a "Non-Governmental Organization" (NGO) of the European Parliament.

From 2001 to 2003 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the BDK. In 2003 he was acting provisionally as chairman of the BDK, where he was then elected federal chairman on an extraordinary delegates' day. In 2004 he was spokesman for the CESP Commission. In September 2005 he was re-elected as federal chairman at the federal delegates' day in Band Kissingen. In 2006 he went to Bulgaria as an EU expert, where he was supposed to carry out an inspection in connection with Bulgaria's accession to the EU, with a focus on the fight against organized crime (OC).

In 2008 Klaus Jansen became head of the DFK project "Web Patrol: The way to a secure Internet". In October 2009 he was re-elected as federal chairman by the federal delegates' day in Suhl.

Criticism of gun law

In a WDR -Radiosendung occasion of the killing spree of Loerrach on 19th September 2010 called for Jansen the GDR - weapons legislation in Germany to introduce because there marksmen was the storage of ammunition prohibited at home. In the wording he said: “Well this year we are celebrating 20 years of reunification, in the GDR there were no ammunition and weapons in private households, so there are 16,000,000 citizens who had actually learned it, who got along with where shooting was taking place, where the state approaches it very differently, perhaps for different reasons. But the basic thing is - even sport shooters have to put up with this question - why do you have to have ammunition at home? "

Internet reset button

In July 2010, Jansen drew attention to himself with an interview in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , in which he made far-reaching demands that restrict the Internet. Among other things, he presented a catalog of demands by the BDK, which changes the union would like to bring about for detective officers. The computer scientist Peter Piksa has examined these demands in his blog and criticizes them as impracticable. The requirement for user identification and registration on the Internet, originally the 15th BDK requirement, is missing in the final version, but was upheld by Jansen in the interview, as was the requirement for a "reset button" with which the "nationwide networks in the Disconnect an emergency from the Internet: "This is the only way to stop an ongoing attack quickly," says Jansen. " A separation of "nationwide networks" from the Internet via a compulsory proxy is currently only possible in totalitarian states such as the People's Republic of China and the like. Ä. practiced.