Commissariat
As Commissioner are departments of the police called, which different in different countries and German Länder tasks assigned to them. While in Germany the offices of the criminal police are called commissariats, in Austria the branches of the state police departments are called police commissariats .
Commissioner's offices in Germany
In the majority of the German state police forces , Kommissariate (K) are offices of the criminal police . You work on the cases of light and medium to serious crime determined according to the business distribution plan by office and field staff. Commissariatsleiter (KL) is usually a senior civil servant . In Baden-Württemberg, on the other hand, there are no offices at the criminal police. Instead, the criminal police are attached to the respective police headquarters.
The administrative superstructure can consist of a criminal police inspection (KPI) , a department and a police directorate or criminal police directorate. Some police stations outside the metropolitan areas also do patrol duty around the clock . Police stations can consist of five to 20 law enforcement officers plus employees . The staff of special commissions (SoKo) is usually recruited from members of commissariats.
In addition, in some federal states departments of the protection police or integrated departments of the protection and criminal police (e.g. Lower Saxony , Hamburg ) police commissioners are named.