State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia

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State Criminal Police Office North Rhine-Westphalia
- LKA NRW -

State level country
position Higher regional authority
Supervisory authority Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia
founding October 1, 1946 as the "State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia"
Headquarters Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia
Director of the State Criminal Police Office z. Currently on behalf of Thomas Jungbluth
Servants over 1,500 (as of 2016)
Web presence lka.polizei.nrw/

The State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia ( LKA NRW ) is a higher state police authority in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . It serves, like other state criminal police offices and the state police as a service center for forensic and fingerprinting affairs.

history

On October 1, 1946, the "State Criminal Police Office North Rhine-Westphalia" was set up on the instructions of the British military government . It was about the amalgamation of two regional criminal police offices (North Rhine Province with headquarters in Düsseldorf and Westphalia with headquarters in Münster), both of which had already been established in April 1946. The tasks of this new authority were laid down in the "Guidelines for the Reorganization of the German Criminal Police in the British Zone". The decentralization of police executive power contained therein was intended to prevent abuse of the police by politicians in the future. However, the military commanders had recognized that a central office was required to carry out certain criminal investigation tasks. In 1949 the State Criminal Police Office received its first legal basis (Law on the Provisional Development of the Police of May 9, 1949, Paragraph 10, Paragraph 4). The establishment of the office was essentially finished by 1952, from 1953 the new name "State Criminal Police Office" prevailed. The State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia has developed into a modern and efficient central office in the state in the fight against crime. After initially five commissariats and an economic department with 34 employees, the State Criminal Police Office is now divided into six departments with currently 30 departments and more than 1,500 employees (as of 2016).

A study by historian Martin Hölzl presented in December 2019, which he carried out on behalf of the LKA, came to the conclusion that the first four directors of the State Criminal Police Office were involved in Nazi crimes. State Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) assessed the result as follows: "From today's perspective, you should never have been allowed to work as police officers."

Authority manager

tasks

The State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia sees itself as a service provider for police and judicial authorities, but also for the state's citizens. It is a subordinate state authority and central office for criminal police cooperation between the federal and state levels in the fight against crime, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its material competence results from § 13 Police Organization Act NRW, supplementary ordinances and decrees.

The tasks include in particular forensic and identification investigations, the preparation of reports in criminal proceedings as well as the collection and evaluation of messages and documents that are important for the prevention and prosecution of criminal offenses, basic conceptual work and information for the district police authorities. In addition, the LKA NRW supports the police authorities in the fight against crime and prevention through a specialized range of services.

In the areas of organized crime, economic and computer crime, environmental and corruption offenses as well as politically motivated crime, criminal offenses are dealt with by investigative commissions of the LKA NRW by order of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia or at the request of a judicial authority.

organization

Central Department

  1. Household, economic and real estate affairs
  2. Personnel matters, equal opportunities officer, advanced training
  3. ICT technology, automotive, weapons and equipment matters, IT security officer,
  4. Legal matters, data protection, association and gun law, organization, internal auditing, sponsoring

Department 1 - Investigation, Evaluation and Analysis of Organized Crime (OK)

  1. Investigation OK, OK drug
  2. White-collar crime
  3. Financial investigations
  4. Evaluation and analysis center OK
  5. Corruption, environmental crime

Department 2 - State Security

  1. Islamist terrorism
  2. State Security Investigation Group
  3. Politically motivated crime links, foreigners without Islamism and other politically motivated crime that cannot be classified
  4. Politically Motivated Crime Right

Department 3 - crime evaluation, crime prevention, evaluation, research, police crime statistics, IT specialist coordination, search

  1. Crime evaluation, IT coordination, KURS NRW, operational case analysis
  2. Crime prevention, evaluation, criminalistic and criminological research center, police crime statistics
  3. Data station, quality assurance VIVA NRW / INPOL, IT specialist coordination, international searches, legal assistance,

Department 4 - Cybercrime (CCCC)

  1. Central point of contact for cybercrime, ICT situation support
  2. Research and manhunt center, cybercrime investigations
  3. IuK investigation support, ZaSt child pornography
  4. Telecommunication surveillance

Department 5 - Criminal Science and Technology Institute (KTI)

  1. Chemical and physical investigations
  2. Serology, DNA analysis
  3. General biological and material traces examinations, certificates
  4. Central forensics, crime scene groups
  5. Weapon and tool examinations, DNA analysis file
  6. Dactyloscopy, face and speech recognition, sound carrier evaluation, handwriting

Department 6 - Supervision and Assistance

  1. Principle, international cooperation, committees, strategy, specialist portal, press and public relations work
  2. Crime matters of the district police authorities, technical controlling, situation service, internet watch
  3. Undercover investigations, witness protection
  4. Mobile task force, technical task force, target manhunt

Official seat

literature

  • Maria Wego: The history of the State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia . Ed .: State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia (= German Society for Police History eV [Hrsg.]: Series of publications by the German Society for Police History eV No. 1 ). Verl. Dt. Police literature, Hilden 1994, ISBN 978-3-8011-0305-7 .
  • Martin Hölzl: Expert opinion on the Nazi past of the first six heads of the State Criminal Police Office in North Rhine-Westphalia . Münster December 16, 2019 ( polizei.nrw [PDF; 822 kB ; accessed on December 29, 2019]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wego, Maria, The History of the State Criminal Police Office North Rhine-Westphalia, Hilden 1994
  2. ↑ LKA NRW - yesterday and today. Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, December 29, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Several former LKA bosses were Nazi criminals . In: Spiegel Online . December 16, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Thomas Grimm: Press conference on the National Socialist past of former LKA directors. LKA NRW, December 16, 2019, accessed on December 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ State Criminal Police Office North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Short version of the report on the Nazi past of the first six heads of authorities at the State Criminal Police Office North Rhine-Westphalia , presentation at the press conference on December 16, 2019, Düsseldorf 2019, p. 6ff.