State Criminal Police Office Saxony-Anhalt
State Criminal Police Office Saxony-Anhalt |
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State level | country |
position | Higher regional authority |
Supervisory authority | Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt |
founding | January 29, 1991 |
Headquarters | Magdeburg , Saxony-Anhalt |
Authority management | Jürgen Schmökel |
Servants | 640 |
Web presence | polizei-web.sachsen-anhalt.de |
The State Criminal Police Office of Saxony-Anhalt is a higher state authority in the form of a State Criminal Police Office of the Saxony-Anhalt Police .
The State Criminal Police Office is responsible for the conduct of investigations and the guideline competence in the fight against crime as well as crime prevention .
organization
The LKA is a higher state authority and is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt (since September 2011: Ministry of the Interior and Sport of the State of Saxony-Anhalt) . At its head is a director. The LKA consists of six departments:
- Administration (law, personnel, budget)
- Forensic science / forensic technology / identification service (biology, classic forensic technology, identification service / dactyloscopy / DNA analysis file, toxicology / physics / chemistry, forensic information technology)
- Special units / operation and investigation support / central information (mobile task force, special task force, telecommunications monitoring, central information / search)
- Evaluation, analysis / central investigations / prevention
- Police state security
- Cybercrime Competence Center (4C)
and the management office.
Legal bases
The legal basis for the work of the LKA Sachsen-Anhalt is § 79 of the Law on Public Safety and Order of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (SOG LSA)
history
With the re-establishment of the state of Saxony-Anhalt , a new police organization was also created. The state government of Saxony-Anhalt decided on January 29, 1991 to form the LKA Saxony-Anhalt. The Ministry of the Interior implemented this decision by decree of February 7, 1991.
In 2007, the LKA director Frank Hüttemann resigned from the area of police state security after allegations of embellished statistics. Jürgen Schmökel became his successor.