State Criminal Police Office Lower Saxony

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State Criminal Police Office Lower Saxony

Logo of the LKA Lower Saxony
State level country
position Higher regional authority
Supervisory authority Nds. Ministry of the Interior and Sport
founding January 1, 1946 as the criminal police headquarters for the Hanover region
Headquarters Hanover
Authority management Friedo de Vries
Servants 1,100 (2014)
Web presence LKA on polizei.niedersachsen.de
Headquarters of the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office in the Hanover authorities

The State Criminal Police Office of Lower Saxony (LKA NI) is a police authority of the State of Lower Saxony with its seat in the state capital Hanover . It is the central office of the state police in criminal matters . The authority has a permanently manned situation and command center . As a service point for the entire Lower Saxony police force , the office supports other police authorities with specialists and technology. The LKA NI is the link to the other State Criminal Police Offices and to the Federal Criminal Police Office . In special cases and in the case of supra-regional criminal offenses , it also acts as a criminal prosecutor and carries out its own investigations .

The LKA NI is subordinate to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport and has around 1,100 employees (2014). The departments of the authorities are distributed over eight locations in Hanover with the headquarters in the Hanover Authority House , the former office building of the Hanover District Government , on Waterlooplatz .

history

Authority sign on an office building of the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office

Emergence

The “ Regional Records Bureau ” was the forerunner of today's State Office of Criminal Investigation . The British military government set it up within its zone of occupation on January 1, 1946 in Hanover and subordinated it to the criminal investigation department for the British zone in Hamburg. The German name of the police authority was Kriminalpolizeizentrale for the Hanover region . The area of ​​responsibility were the former states of Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and the Prussian province of Hanover , from which the state of Lower Saxony emerged on November 1, 1946 .

When the police force was handed over to German authorities by the British military government in 1947, the police authority was initially called the Lower Saxony Criminal Police Office and a short time later the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKPA Nds.). The LKPA Nds received its legal basis. with the passing of the Federal Criminal Police Office Act 1951, which obliged the federal states to maintain central offices of the criminal police. In 1951, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior declared the authority to issue instructions to other police authorities in Lower Saxony. At the same time, the state criminal police office, as the state's central authority for combating crime, was given additional tasks. The criminal police facility with a central office function had its seat in Hanover from the beginning and initially had 43 employees. Your tasks were:

In other parts of the British occupation zone in what is now Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia , " Regional Records Bureaus " were established after the Second World War . They were subordinate to the Criminal Police Office for the British Zone in Hamburg, the Zonal Bureau . The necessity of these police facilities arose from the chaotic post-war conditions with roving gangs and criminals , often displaced persons from Eastern European countries.

Name changes

  • On January 1, 1946, the "criminal police office for the Hanover region" was founded
  • From 1947, the authority was initially called the "Lower Saxony Criminal Police Office" and then "Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office" for around 34 years (LKPA Nds.)
  • Since 1981 the authority has been called "Landeskriminalamt Niedersachsen" (LKA NI)

Service building

Headquarters from 1946 to 1954 at Prinzenstrasse 21
Former headquarters on Welfenplatz from 1954
Sculpture The Shield

The agency established by the British military government in 1946 with 32 employees was initially based in the town house at Prinzenstrasse 21 near Aegidientorplatz in Hanover. Within a few years, the number of employees doubled to 64. Therefore, a new building was built in 1953 on a plot of land on Welfenplatz , which was occupied in 1954. Since the Second World War, this was a rubble site on which one of the former military barracks (Artillery Barracks IV from 1857) of Welfenplatz stood. She fell victim to an air raid on Hanover at the end of the war. In this way, the former military quarter of Welfenplatz with its partially destroyed barracks was transformed into a location for police facilities in Hanover. In the 1960s with the constant increase in tasks and meanwhile around 200 employees, the premises in the LKPA Nds. increasingly tight. The first extension took place in 1965, followed by another in 1981. The office building of the authority developed into a square building complex with a closed inner courtyard. Today (2014) the approximately 1,100 employees of the authority are spread over eight locations in the city. The management of the authorities is based in the "Authority House", the former office building of the Hanover District Government , on Waterlooplatz . The other locations are in Schützenstraße on Welfenplatz as the former headquarters and in the neighboring Elisabeth-Granier-Hof, in Büttnerstraße, Marienstraße and in Langenhagen in the Ostpassage. Two other locations are secret because of the housing of undercover agents .

architectural art

Since 1989, a sculpture made of two 6-meter-high Cor-Ten steel plates has adorned the service building on Welfenplatz as art in architecture . The deliberately uncoated panels oxidized over time and turned red-brown. The work of art is called " Schild " and was created by the iron sculptor Hannes Meinhard from Benthe . According to the artist, his work conveys "strength, protection and security".

One-location solution

The government of Lower Saxony may decided by a 10 year ongoing discussion in March 2009, take up the construction of a new office building for the state police, which all 985 employees. The construction should enable modern technology and end the previous fragmentation of the office in the entire city area. The construction project with a volume of around 100 million euros was to be built by an investor in a public-private partnership . As the site was a piece of land near the fairgrounds on Kronsberg talking.

Service building at Waterlooplatz, the future single-location solution

At a budget meeting in August 2010, the state government decided not to build the new building due to the tight budget situation. Furthermore, a “one-location solution” is favored, which is to be implemented at the previous location at Waterlooplatz. For this purpose, a new building is to be built there for the Forensic Institute. For the renovation of the building currently in use on Waterlooplatz and the new building for the Forensic Institute there, 64 million euros are earmarked. The groundbreaking ceremony was planned for spring 2019 and completion is scheduled for 2022.

LKA directors

director Term of office
Alfred Hager 1946-1947
Friedrich Peter 1948-1950
Wilhelm Gansweidt 1950-1953
Georg Schulz 1953-1970
Hans-Heinrich Huelke 1970-1974
Waldemar Burghard 1974-1983
Paul Berke-Müller 1983-1984
Wilfried Kusber 1984-2000
Rudiger Butte 2001-2005
Uwe Kolmey 2005-2018
Friedo de Vries since May 24, 2018

tasks

organization

structure

Since a reorganization on January 1, 2006, the LKA NI has been divided into five departments with 28 departments in addition to the management of the authorities . Below it is further divided into subject areas and specialist groups.

  • Authority management
    • president
    • Department (D) 01: Central tasks, principle, press and public relations
    • Equal Opportunities Officer
  • Department 1 - Human Resources, Law and Logistics
  • Department 2 - Mission and Investigation Support
  • Department 3 - Analysis, Prevention and Identification
  • Department 4 - State Police
  • Department 5 - Forensic Institute (KTI)

Special organizational units and central offices

Situation center

The LKA NI has a situation and information center (LIZ) that is manned around the clock , similar to the long-term criminal services of other police stations. The situation center is responsible nationwide for the recording, evaluation and control of police information. From there, supraregional searches , so-called state alarm searches , and public searches are coordinated.

Forensic Institute (KTI)

With the reorganization of the LKA NI on January 1, 2006, Department 5 was transformed into the "Forensic Institute" (KTI). This institution of forensic technology and science prepares scientifically founded reports for criminal proceedings . In this context, the employees also work as court experts in criminal proceedings . If requested by local authorities, they secure trace material such as DNA material, microscopic traces such as textile fibers, traces of fire and explosion, vehicle inspections in the event of traffic accidents at the scene of the crime . The CTI receives around 40,000 research requests annually. The scope of duties includes the following areas:

  • Dactyloscopy for the identification of crime scene fingerprints with the help of the file system “Automated Fingerprint Identification System” (AFIS), nationwide inventory of 25 million
  • Firearms (comparative), smoke traces and ballistic examinations of weapons and projectiles for the identification of weapons, determination of firing directions, for example in the case of crimes or hunting accidents
  • Hand - and machine print tests in certificates, identity cards and documents to detect forgeries, identification of printed products
  • Shoe and tire profile examinations, for example to determine brand and model (sample collection comparison) and to carry out crime scene comparisons as well as comparative examinations of possible traces of origin (shoes, tires) with certain crime scene traces to determine individual similarities with the aim of identification
  • Material examinations, such as traces of break-ins or escape from an accident
  • IT forensics for computer systems, data carriers , Internet presentations
  • Image technology for the examination of video recordings ( e.g. bank robberies ), crime photography and central police photo laboratory in Lower Saxony for photos of evidence
  • Biological and textile traces , for example textile fiber transfers , soil and vegetation studies
  • Examination of serological , toxicological and DNA traces (see next paragraph)
  • Defusing incendiary devices and explosives (see paragraph Defusing devices)
DNA analysis (part of the CTI)

Since 1990, the LKA NI has carried out DNA analyzes for the transfer of criminals . In the organizational unit “Forensic Molecular Genetics”, scientists and laboratory staff examine trace material for their genetic fingerprint , the so-called fingerprinting. In mid-2005, the LKA NI entered around 30,000 DNA samples from people in the BKA's nationwide gene database . With around 1,800 hits, the Lower Saxony LKA took a top position nationwide. In this way, some homicides and far more theft , robbery and sexual offenses , some of them dating back many years, could be resolved.

The reason for the introduction of the nationwide gene database was also the murder of a young girl in the Cloppenburg area in Lower Saxony in 1998 . The first gene mass test in the Federal Republic of Germany with approx. 18,000 saliva samples took place in the Nelly murder case . In 2003, on the initiative of the Interior Minister of Lower Saxony , the DNA testing capacities of the LKA NI were significantly expanded, but in view of the high number of traces they are not yet sufficient.

Defuser (part of the CTI)

After the first attacks by the left- wing terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF), the State Criminal Police Office set up an organizational unit in 1972 to defuse incendiary devices and explosives. Since then, your employees have been working on unconventional explosive devices and incendiary devices (IED), in contrast to conventional, military devices (such as bombs , mines ). The LKA defusing team has been trained by the German Armed Forces and the British Rhine Army, which was formerly stationed here, in handling explosives. As an aid, u. a. a remote-controllable robot ( remote control manipulator ) in the form of a mini excavator is used. In 1985, 1986 and 1996 there were accidents during defusing operations, in which defusers were injured, sometimes life-threateningly.

Special defuses were: (all in Hanover)

  • 1987 Disassembly of explosives in the apartment and in the car of two police murderers
  • 1989 A car bomb from the Irish terrorist organization IRA was dismantled after a British soldier was killed by an explosive device
  • 1992 Search of the explosives depot of the "old town bomber"

Central Office for Internet Crime

On August 1, 2009, a “Central Office for Internet Crime” was set up in the LKA NI in order to do justice to the increasing importance of this field of crime. The task is to curb crime on the Internet through expertise and specialization on the part of the law enforcement authorities. 20 employees run a central evaluation and analysis in this crime area for the state of Lower Saxony. In exceptional individual cases, it is also determined. The central office is also supposed to fight organized crime . Since 2014, the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office has been a member of the Cybercrime Security Cooperation (SiKo), along with five other State Criminal Police Offices and the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom).

Police draftsman

Police stations in Lower Saxony can request the police draftsman based in the LKA NI. Using the descriptions of crime victims or witnesses, he creates phantom images. The pictures are hand-drawn or computer-aided. The introduction of the police draftsman goes back to crimes committed by a "love couple assassin" around 1968 in the Celle - Braunschweig - Gifhorn area. A special commission was only able to arrest the suspect in 1971 through a phantom picture of the perpetrator. The LKA NI has had two draftsmen since 1994.

Facebook manhunt

LKA NI has been using the social network Facebook for public searches since mid-2012 . Appeals for wanted people and witnesses, warning messages and outstanding crimes that should be cleared up with the help of the population are posted. The use of Facebook for police purposes took place nationwide for the first time in 2011 by the Hanover Police Department , which was temporarily interrupted at the beginning of 2012 for data protection reasons. Later, Lower Saxony's Minister of the Interior, Uwe Schünemann, transferred the task to the LKA NI centrally for the Lower Saxony police , which has been responsible for the authority since May 2012. Personal data is on the LKA NI website while there is only a link to Facebook . After using Facebook for a year and a half, the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office drew a positive balance at the beginning of 2014. During that time, 176 views or information have been posted, which have led to numerous references. Young people in particular can be reached using Facebook.

Other organizational units

equipment

Shooting range

When a new five-storey building complex was built in 1981, a 20 m long shooting range was integrated into the LKA NI . In the indoor shooting range , police officers (especially those involved in personal protection ) train how to use firearms . In the original form, targets and fixed targets were shot at. After a renovation in 2001, the facility allows interactive shooting. Here are (combined) movies with police everyday situations, such as checking a person in a vehicle, played in which the shooter to use firearms exercises or -nichtgebrauch.

The LKA NI has had its own logo since 2003. It consists of the red underlined lettering "LKA Niedersachsen" next to a map of Lower Saxony . The logo was created at no cost in a competition in which all government employees and students from 200 high schools in Lower Saxony took part. The winner was a business informatics class at a vocational school in Friesoythe . The award was an insight into the filming as well as the acting as extras in a crime scene episode with the LKA crime scene inspector Charlotte Lindholm .

In official documents of the State Criminal Police Office, the logo used by the State Administration with a white Lower Saxony horse in a red circle was used until 1990 and has been used again since 2003 . In between, a red "dash-dot arch" signet of a stylized horse's head was used, which the then state government had introduced for the state administration after the change of government in 1990 .

The LKA as a crime scene -Schauplatz

Since 2002, the crime scene chief inspector Charlotte Lindholm (actress Maria Furtwängler ) has been solving fictitious murder cases for the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office. According to the script , she is the "woman for special missions" in the NDR TV series Tatort . Chief Commissioner Lindholm is investigating all of Lower Saxony and mostly in the countryside. So far there has been filming in almost all parts of the country. Intention of the NDR is obvious, country and people of the area country to bring Saxony closer to the audience. This enables a dramaturgical trick, according to which the chief inspector works at the State Criminal Police Office. Film recordings at her script-related office in the LKA took place only once. In contrast, alleged service rooms are shown that are actually located in the Lister Tor high-rise building or in the glass facade of the headquarters of Nord / LB on Aegidientorplatz .

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Wittkowski: The State Criminal Police (LKPA) as the central agency for fighting crime in Lower Saxony in: Lower Saxony and its police: Published by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior. Police-Technik-Verkehr-Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden 1979, pp. 186–191.
  • Waldemar Burghard : Development and tasks of the state criminal police office Lower Saxony in: Kriminalistik , 1979

Web links

Commons : Landeskriminalamt Niedersachsen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 11, 2009
  2. ↑ Supplementary budget 2010 and budget 2011
  3. ↑ Tobias Morchner: State Criminal Police Office gets new headquarters in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from April 1, 2014
  4. ↑ Peer Hellerling: New LKA chief on terrorism, cybercrime and mobile criminal gangs in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 28, 2018
  5. ↑ New boss: Osnabrücker heads the LKA at ndr.de from May 24, 2018
  6. ↑ Police extra sheet 1/2005 ( Memento from January 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  7. ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport from June 30, 2009
  8. ↑ LKA-NI: Contract signing of security cooperation LKA President de Vries: “Train even more IT experts in the fight against cybercrime” , press release of the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office of September 4, 2018
  9. ↑ Signing of the security cooperation contract with LKA President de Vries: “Train even more IT experts in the fight against cybercrime” at focus.de on September 4, 2018
  10. ^ LKA is looking for friends on Facebook in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 18, 2012
  11. ↑ Police should no longer use Facebook in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 27, 2012
  12. ↑ Press release of June 18, 2012: Minister Schünemann: "With Facebook we reach an important target group for our searches!"
  13. ^ LKA Lower Saxony. Our Facebook investigators in pro police issue January / February 2013, p. 5 (pdf; 1.2 MB)
  14. ↑ Police successfully investigated on Facebook at ndr.de on January 3, 2014
  15. ↑ A city for all occasions . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 11, 2008

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