Police chief
Polizeimeister (abbreviation PM ) is an official designation (colloquially also referred to as rank ) of police officers in the German police , including the police in the German Bundestag . At the criminal police there is the equivalent of the detective master (abbreviation KM ). This official title is awarded in the event of a transfer to the criminal police.
Status and tasks
It is the entrance office for the career of the middle police force . Police officers are assigned to salary group A 7 after passing their career test . Newcomers to the preparatory service with the German police in the middle service use the service designation Police Master Candidate (in Bavaria, after having passed the first level of training, Police Oberwachtmeister ).
A typical job of a police chief is that of a clerk in the individual police service , whose office holder, however, is only very rarely given management status. Furthermore, it can be used in closed units such as the Einsatzhundschaft or in evidence preservation and arrest units of the riot police .
They are investigators for the public prosecutor's office . The next higher official title is police chief (salary group A 8).
Rank badge
The rank badge of the police consists of two light blue stars on a dark blue background. In the Water Police and the Federal Police Office lake two gold wires / strips of 8 mm visible on navy blue background.
Rank history
The forerunner in the German Empire was the position of the police master, comparable to the deputy officer in the army. In particular in the police forces of the German colonies , he acted as chief of a police station and as such commanded the German police sergeants, police sergeants and local police soldiers and police officers. The salary corresponded to that of a police sergeant (civil servant class 9a), the uniform was similar to that of the officers (saber, cap, shoulder pieces made of four black-white-red mohair cords sewn next to each other).
In Germany itself, the designation was only introduced as a police rank in 1926. Until the reorganization of careers, the police chief was a senior subordinate in the police forces of the federal states and the federal border guards , since the federal border guards employed a simple duty and the federal states hired the police officer.
The official designations "Police Wachtmeister" (salary group A 5), "Police Oberwachtmeister" (salary group A 5 with official allowance) and "Polizeihauptwachtmeister" (salary group A 6) were gradually abolished by the German police in the 1990s. The only exception is the Bavarian Police . They confer the title "Police Oberwachtmeister" during training.
Rank badge of the police force
Rank badge of the water police
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Colonial Lexicon - "Police Troops" .
- ↑ www.polizei.bayern.de : “The official titles / rank badges of the Bavarian Police”, accessed on November 28, 2011.
See also
Official titles of the German police
|
lower official title of police officer / police officer candidate |
current title of police officer |
higher official title police chief |
|
|
Career: medium service - upper service - higher service All official titles at a glance: see official titles of the German police . |
|||