Police chief

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Police Chief Master ( PHM ) is an official designation of law enforcement officers in the German police in the career of intermediate police enforcement service / 2. Qualification level . You are usually an investigator for the public prosecutor's office .

PHM are civil servants who are already able to perform responsible and demanding tasks, e.g. B. group leader or group leader , instruction officer or operations leader of smaller operations. Some of them are also strips leaders in the patrol , while in the riot tribe officials and based on the experience mostly determined belonging to a particular group or a particular Special use are.

PHM are classified in salary group (BesGr) A 9 . An additional official allowance (AZ) can be granted to a portion of the police chiefs regulated by state or federal law . Although this does not change the official title in terms of civil service law, PHMz is often used as an abbreviation for the official title - but legally incorrect. Sometimes their own badges are also issued.

The badge of the Schutzpolizei consists of four or five (PHMz) light green or light blue stars on a dark green or dark blue background. At the water police and at the Federal Police Office in See , four golden strands / stripes of 8 mm each can be seen on a navy blue background. Usually the stars are arranged one above the other in a row. For the police in Baden-Württemberg and Saxony, the rule applies that if there are four or five stars, two on the shoulder flap are arranged side by side and the other stars above one another. With all other badges they are arranged one above the other.

In Baden-Württemberg (introduced with the new uniform model), Hamburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony , the protective police have their own rank badges for police chiefs who receive an official allowance. Here five light green or light blue stars can be seen on a dark green or dark blue background.

The next lower official title is police chief master (BesGr. A 8 ), the next higher police commissioner (also BesGr. A 9 ) depends on a career change in the higher police force. How this change is carried out is very different within the police forces of the federal states and the federal states.

In Berlin, in the summer of 2010, all police chiefs were transferred to police commissioners and police chiefs who had received an official allowance were transferred to police chief commissioners without further examination. Since then, all police chiefs in Berlin have also been promoted to police commissioners.

→ See also official titles of the German police

  • Protection police

  • Protection police in Baden-Württemberg and Saxony

  • Water police

  • Hamburg Water Police

  • Old badge in green

  • Old badge with AZ

  • With AZ

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ polizei-bw.de: Rank badge , accessed on December 14, 2011
  2. ↑ hamburg.de: Rank badge Schutzpolizei ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF; 970 kB), accessed on December 3, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburg.de
  3. ↑ landesrecht-mv.de: Annex 3 to the clothing guidelines for the police of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, point 4.1 , accessed on December 3, 2011
  4. ^ Police of Saxony - Police of Saxony - rank badge of the protection police. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
lower official title of
police chief master 		current title of
police chief 		higher official title of
Police Commissioner
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