List of police abbreviations

The list of police abbreviations contains abbreviations for police forces in German-speaking countries.

In some cases, the information in brackets indicates the origin :
AT = Austria
CH = Switzerland
DD = German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)
DE = Germany
DR = German Empire
EU = European Union

numbers

0: Emergency call (radio reporting system (= FMS) status),
01: Cause or main cause of a traffic accident; Free patrol, order acceptance possible
02: 02, 03 etc. = other people involved in the accident, whereby higher numbers usually mean less involvement in the cause of the accident; Ready for use on the guard, as FMS status 2 (NRW)
03: Occupied patrol, order acceptance not possible; On the way to the mission, as FMS status 3 (NRW)
04: Arrived on site, as FMS status 4 (NRW)
05: Request to speak, as FMS status 5 (NRW)
06: Resource out of service, as FMS status 6 (NRW)
07: Car owner query; Data query (NRW), as FMS status 7
09: Search query, as FMS status 9 / PP control center
014: Emergency vehicle
015: Department
016: Service dog
017: Bomb threat
018: BGS
019: Observatory wanted
020: Escort
021: Bank robbery
022: band
023: Foreigners
024: Location determination
025: Dodging
026: resistance
027: water cannon
028: weapons
029: Reinforcement
030: Assembly
031: Injured
032: Traffic accident escape
033: traffic accident
034: Traffic obstruction
035: persecution
036: Suspicious person
037: accident
038: Raid
039: homicide
040: Tanker
041: Perpetrator
042: crime scene
043: dispute
044: Location
045: Explosives attack
046: Moral offense
047: Safety position
048: Suicide
049: Heavy transport
050: Towing service
051: Barrier
052: Alert level
053: Alarm call triggered
054: Administrative assistance
055: collection
056: doctor
057: outbreak
058: Threat / harassment
059: Accompanying team / escort
060: Riot Police (BEPO)
061: seizure
062: Company combat group
063: Scam / cheater
064: Drunk
065: Barge
066: Blood collection
067: fire
068: armed forces
069: demonstration
070: theft
071: search
072: Burglary / burglar
073: Sneak in
074: Detection service
075: exhibitionist
076: Wanted
077: Use the ferry in the direction / cell phone
078: Passenger ship
079: Determine vehicle owner
080: Counterfeit money
081: Arrest / custody
082: fire Department
083: volatile / refugee
084: Plane crash
085: Cargo ship
086: Radio patrol
087: Foot patrol
088: Gas smell / death
089: Gas poisoning
090: Transport of prisoners
091: Insane
092: Money transporter
093: Wanted
094: Gross mischief
095: Port vehicle
096: House-family quarrel
097: Average
098: Requests for help
099: Helpless
100: Sovereign vehicle
101: collision
102: Commission
103: Mayhem
104: Motor vehicle
105: ambulance
106: Kripo
107: Corpse
108: Military police / police officers
109: military mission control
110: Murderer / murder
111: Ammunition find
112: emergency landing
113: Emergency call
114: Oil pollution
115: Robbery / suicide risk
116: drug
117: reserve
118: Disturbance of the peace
119: brawl
120: Lubrication column
121: Firearms use
224: Speed control
226: Verification of EDP
228: Prosecutor
229: Observation
230: helicopter
231: Hostage taking / kidnapping
232: hostage
233: findings
234: Not ready for use
235: Ready to use

A.

AAO: General organizational structure / alarm and release order
AAK: Breath alcohol concentration
AAW: Old candidate ( PP Munich )
eight: Handcuffs / Handcuffs
ADL: Field Service Manager (Operations Manager)
AD: Autobahn triangle
ADV: General data comparison (personal verification)
AHU: Alarm centenary
AE: Location determination; Complainant (Baden-Württemberg)
AFZ: Education and training center
AHM: Stop message
AK: Motorway junction
ALA: foreign Office
ALPol: Head of the Police Department
AT THE: Motorway maintenance department
Anton: Term for end of deployment via FMS (RLP)
AO: Organizational structure
AP: Motorway Police (in certain regions also PAT = Police Motorway Squad)
API: Motorway Police Inspection (AT)
APRev: Highway Police Station
APS: Motorway Police Station (not nationwide)
APW: Motorway Police Station (NRW)
AS: Junction; Motorway entrance or exit
AT: Alcohol test
ATG: Alcohol test device, cf. Alcomat
On: Training
AZ: File number
AZR: Central Register of Foreigners
AZW: Doctor on guard (for blood test)

B.

BAB: Federal motorway
BaPo: Railway Police
BAK: Blood alcohol concentration
BAO: Special organizational structure
BAP: Particularly suspicious person (s), term used by the Hamburg police
Bast: Image taking station
BD: District service, civil servant who is responsible for a certain district and who is to serve as a contact person for the citizens there ( contact area officer in many federal states ), in Baden-Württemberg term for the investigative service of the protective police within larger cities, which is responsible for small and medium-sized offenses - In rural areas in Baden-Württemberg, these tasks are performed by so-called police posts.; Switzerland: on-call service
BE: Blood collection
BeDo: Preservation of evidence and documentation (mostly as a BeDo group) - documents police-relevant facts on video and photography, e.g. B. at demonstrations, arrests with SEK participation, etc. - at the Bavarian riot police now BeSi ( evidence preservation )
BeDoKW: Evidence and documentation vehicles
BEFA: Observational manhunt; mostly with extreme suspicion; Report contains data on vehicle occupants; Where; how; when
BefKW: Command vehicles
BePo: Riot police (not to be confused with BP = license plate of the federal police)
BeSi: Preservation of evidence (not to be confused with BeDo; a measure to ensure qualified prosecution)
BEWA: Armed
SFOE: Evidence preservation and arrest unit (see BFHu)
BFH or BFHu: Evidence preservation and arrest hundreds (part of the riot police, which is trained in special arrest techniques and rapid intervention tactics)
BFS: special foot patrol
BG: Advisory group, specialist group that supports the police chief in certain situations (not nationwide; in Bavaria: negotiation group)
BGS: Federal Border Guard , old name of the current Federal Police (BPOL)
BIA: Internal Affairs Office (AT)
BK: Federal Criminal Police Office (AT)
BKA: Federal Criminal Police Office (DE)
BMI: Federal Ministry of the Interior (DE) , Federal Ministry of the Interior (AT)
BOE: Basic organizational unit (service group)
BP: Riot police; License plate of the Federal Police; blood sample
BPA: Federal identity card; Riot Police Department
BPD: Riot Police Directorate (DE)
BPD: Federal Police Directorate (AT)
BPdL: Riot police of the federal states
BPOL: Federal Police
BPH: Riot Police (NRW)
BPK: District Police Command (AT)
BPOLABT: Federal Police Department
BPOLAMT: Federal Police Office
BPOLD: Federal Police Directorate
BPOLI: Federal Police Inspection (replace the old BPOL offices)
BPOLP: Federal Police Headquarters
BPOLR: Federal Police Station
BPP: Riot Police Headquarters
BR: District government (not nationwide)
glasses: Towing aid for rollable vehicles
BS: Accused (non-official)
BSD: Particularly serious case of theft
BSD: District and priority service
BSH: Incendiary search dog
BtM or BTM: Narcotics
BTMK: Narcotics consumer / narcotic crime
BuF: Observation and assessment report
Bünabe: Civil servant (Hamburg), see contact area officer
BUPOL: Federal Police (RLP)
BV: Interrogation of suspects (non-official)
BvD: Official on duty; Official from the management service (not nationwide)
BA: License plate of the Bavarian riot police (place of registration Bamberg / seat of the presidium)

C.

CNP: Corporate Network Police (nationwide special police network for wired telecommunications TKSoNe)
Caesar: Department, e.g. B. in "Come Caesar!"; Name for order via FMS (RLP)

D.

D (also Dora): Guard duty
DAB: Notice of entry into service
DAL: Service Department Head
DASTA: Data and information station
DG: Service group
DGF: Service group leader
DGL: Service group leader
DGP: Presence Service Group (Hamburg)
DEG: Decentralized investigation team
DHF: Service dog handler
DHFSt: Service dog handler squadron
DHFüKW, also DHuFüKW: Service dog driver vehicles
DHI: Service dog inspection (AT)
to you: Directorate
DirGE: Emergency Response / Operations Directorate (NRW)
DirK: Crime Directorate (NRW)
DirLKA: Director of the State Criminal Police Office (name for the head only NRW, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt)
DirV: Traffic Directorate (NRW)
DirZA: Central Tasks Directorate (NRW)
DirOffice: Management office
DirL: Director
Wire, wire talk: Telephone call via landline or cellular network (e.g. "Come by wire!")
Dräger: Term for the alcohol or drug pre-test (name of the manufacturer)
DSL: Head of service / shift manager
DST: Data station , this means a query (INPOL, POLAS)
DuSu: search
DVR: Downtime
DWE: Twilight apartment break-in
DuZ: Service at inconvenient times

E.

EA: Stake section; Operations Department (Baden-Württemberg)
EAV: Aptitude selection process (not nationwide)
EB: Briefing officer; Hiring Advisor; Operations officer (Elst); Executive Agent (AT)
EB: “Wait!” (In radio communications, abbreviation for “Request reflection time”); Remnants from the tactile radio (Morse code)
ED: Burglary; Detection service
it: electronic data processing
EE: End of mission ("double Emil"); Mission unit (AT)
EHu or EH: Stake
EKIS: Electronic Criminal Police Information System (AT)
Tbsp: Deployment theory
Elst: Operations control center
ELO: Operations manager (on) site
EO: Place of use; Event location
EK: Investigation Commission
EKHK: First chief detective
EM: Operational resources (FustKW, radios, etc.)
EMA or EWO: Check with the residents' registration office
EMD: Demining Service (AT)
EMS: Multi-purpose stick (also EMS-A - extendable) - Tonfa
EP: Eating (break)
EPHK: First police chief inspector
EPOST 810: Nationwide web-based police-internal teletype network and program
ERMI: Determination (e.g. at the owner's address)
ESD: Emergency and patrol duty; Disarming Service (AT)
ET: Task force, civilian unit to fight certain areas of crime and offense; Operational training; Emergency camouflage vehicle, cars and officials appear in civilian clothes
ET-AP: Task Force Motorway Police
ETA: Tactical training (gPVD)
ETR: Mission-related training
EAW: European arrest warrant (AT)
EZ: Operations center
EKA: Baton, short, extendable (telescopic baton)
EKAA: Electronic criminal files archiving

F.

Fari (unofficial): Direction of travel , direction in which a road user has moved, is moving or is supposed to move with his vehicle
FAO: Search, reconnaissance and observation
FiaZ: Driving while drunk
FE: Driving licence; Driving license
FEM or FuEM: Command and control means , all equipment that the police have at their disposal to deal with a situation.
FIRMLY: Flight operations center (Austria)
Firmly: Management and task force
FiüZ: Driving when you are overtired
FK: Technical commissioner
HFC: Radio command vehicle (e.g. for hundreds)
FKB: Officials with knowledge of the football scene (see also SKB)
FL: Leadership
FLD: Management and location service (not nationwide)
Hallway: Direction of escape (unofficial)
FLZ: Management and situation center
FoFe: Driving without a license (unofficial)
FPD: Voluntary Police Service (Baden-Württemberg)
FR: Direction of travel; see Fari (unofficial)
FSH: Tracking dog
FuD: Driving under the influence of drugs
FuG: Radio (also in the armed forces )
FuKrad: Funkkraftrad (motorcycle patrol)
FustKW: Radio patrol vehicles (especially North Rhine-Westphalia)
FuStW: Patrol car
FüSt: Management position, she has administrative, control and coordination tasks within her sub-department (not nationwide)
FuWa: Radio car (not nationwide)

G

gD: higher service
ge: Gustav Emil = violent
GE: Averting danger / deployment; Department within a police agency
GefKW: Prisoner cars
GefKV: Dangerous bodily harm
GeSa: Prisoner collection point
GEWA: Violent offender
GGSK: Greater danger, damage and disasters
GLB: Group leader meeting
GPI: Border Police Inspection (AT)
GruKW: Group cars
GS: Security and law enforcement, department within a police agency; Injured party
GSA: Border Guard Department
gSE: major damaging event
GSG 9 BPOL: GSG9 of the Federal Police (formerly Grenzschutzgruppe 9, nowadays a proper name)
GSH: Border Guard Hundreds
GSK: Border Guard Command
GSL: Major loss situation, cf. police situation
GT: Genitals; Court date
GV: Sexual intercourse

H

HB: arrest warrant
HBF: Arrest Warrant (RLP)
hD: higher service
HF, HUFÜ: Dog handler
HG: Domestic violence
HGVP: Domestic violence / missing persons (database NRW)
HGruKW: Semi-group vehicles
HILO, HILOPE: Helpless person (unofficial)
HöSSPF: Highest SS and Police Leader (historical)
HSSPF: Higher SS and Police Leader (historical)
bumblebee: Police helicopter (NRW)
HuTruFü: Hundred troop leader
HUU: Main cause of accident
HUW, HWE: House and apartment break-in
HVA: Heavy traffic
HvD: Senior civil servant
HWG: Frequently changing sexual intercourse partners (police service name for prostitutes )
HfPol: Police College

I.

IBP or IBPdL: Inspector of the riot police of the federal states
IDF: Identity verification
IGVP: Integration process police, data processing program (formerly BAY and NRW, now only NRW)
INPOL: Police information system
IB: In employment

J

YES A: Juvenile detention center
JIT: Juvenile intensive offender (NRW)
JVA: Correctional facility

K

K: Commissariat; Criminal investigation (jargon)
KA: Control request (letter requiring a vehicle driver to present certain documents)
KA: Commissioner candidate (rank; NRW)
KAN: Criminal record evidence
KB: Commissioner applicant
KBV: No special occurrences
KDD: Permanent crime service
KED: Criminal and investigation service
KEE: Contact, investigation and survey area (organizational unit within a PI; not nationwide)
Theatrical Version: No statement
KG: Kriminalgruppe, in this organizational unit the criminal investigation departments are summarized (not nationwide)
CHD: Chief detective
AI: Criminal inspection
KI ST: Criminal Inspection Police State Security
KIT: Crisis intervention team
KK: Detective inspector; Criminal Commissariat - organizational unit of a sub-division of the investigation of crimes is up (in the area of their assigned fields offense)
KKI: Criminal Investigation Department in the inspection
KL: Head of Commissariat
KLV: Representative of the head of the commissariat
KMRD: Ordnance clearance service
KOB: Contact area officer
Station wagon: Simultaneous review - person and license plate (see ADV)
COOK: Chief Detective
KoPlaWu: Head wound
COST: Control body (RLP)
KPB: District Police Department
KPO: Crime prevention / victim protection
KradG: Motorcycle group
Motorbike St.: Motorcycle relay
KTU: Forensic investigation
KvD: Detective officer on duty (highest-ranking detective on duty)
Driver on duty: Commissioner on duty
KvL: Commissioner from the situation service
KVT: Clamp closure bags (e.g. for storing narcotics)
Kv or KV: Mayhem
gef KV: dangerous bodily harm
s KV: serious bodily harm (RLP)
K guard: Police station
KatS: Civil protection

L.

L.: Head (L / HW - the main guard, L / PI - the police station etc.)
Ladi: Shoplifting; Shoplifter
LaPo: National Police
Lapoldi: State Police Director (jargon)
Truck: Loudspeaker cars
LeiKo: Leadership conference
LEZ: Situation and operations center; Head of Operations Center
LEWIS: State-wide resident registration information system (Baden-Württemberg)
LFZ: Head - Leadership Group - Zug (Deputy Platoon Leader, Riot Police NRW), Situation and Leadership Center
Libi: Photo (photography)
LimaKW: Light mast vehicles (vehicles with extendable light masts)
limo: Offender motivated to the left (POLAS identification)
LKA: State Criminal Police Office
LLst: State control center
LPD: Chief Police Director; State Police Directorate (AT)
LPK: State Police Command
LPP: State Police Headquarters, State Police President
LRSt: State rider relay
LSA: Traffic lights
LSt: Control center
LStab: Management staff
LTW: Stretcher trolleys
LZ: Situation center (not nationwide)
LZA: Traffic light system
LZPD: State Office for Central Police Services NRW

M.

MBD: Munitions recovery service
mD: Medium Grade
MEFG: Mobile task force and wanted group
MEK: Mobile task force
MEM: Mobile ethnic minority (police service term for Roma and Sinti )
MEPolG: Sample draft of a uniform police law
MES: Multipurpose baton
MFe: Mobile search unit
WITH: Heard
MK: Homicide squad; Defect card
MKÜ: Mobile control and monitoring units
MOT: Motorway police (e.g. in Oldenburg)
MOZ: Meldeort and time (date, in which police forces at the Location or on a power collection at the police leader or team leader must report)
mPVD: Medium law enforcement service
MüF: Notification of vehicle defects (formerly "notification of defects")
MuK: Mass and petty crime

N

Nafri: North African / North African intensive offender
CLOSE: Emergency helicopter
NAW: emergency
NEF: Ambulance vehicle
negative: negative
nine: Confirmation at the end of the radio call
NiA: National (= personal data sheet) in the file (AT)
noeP: Law enforcement officer not openly investigating
NW 1 (or 2,3 ... etc): Name of the form of the NRW police
NZG: unassignable item

O

OA: Public order office
IF: without complaints
OBV: Without any particular incident
OE: organizational unit
OK: Organized crime, the most famous representative of organized crime is the mafia
OLO: Homeless man
OfW: Without a permanent residence
OE document: Administrative offense record
OS: without search mark
OvD: Senior civil servant on duty (obsolete)
OWi: Administrative offense

P

P101: Residence verification (RLP)
PED: Police doctor service - service for medical care and support for police officers (not nationwide)
PAng: Police officer
PASt: Police motorway station (not nationwide)
PAZ: Police Detention Center (Austria)
PB: Police observation (wanted people)
PD: Police Director; Police headquarters; Police service knowledge
PDK: Police service knowledge
PDHE: Police Service Dog Unit (AT)
PDU: Police disabled (civil service law)
PDV: Police Regulations
PE: Police behavior (Bavaria)
PEKO: Personal control
PF: Police chief; Identification
PFV: Personal identification procedure
PFW: Police Volunteer (Baden-Württemberg)
PG (also: PGD); Police custody ; Police Detention Service
PHK: Police chief inspector
PHM: Police chief
PHW: Police main station, respective main station of a police station (not nationwide); Police sergeant major
PI: Police inspection
PIF

Q

QFG: Arrived at the scene
QTA: The thing has been done
QRM: Radio interference ("mud")
QTH: Location

R.

R + H: Rider and dog relay
RA: Lawyer
RAKK: Register of foreign license plates
RB: Regional representative
RED: District emergency service
RG dog, RSH: Drug search dog
RMS

S.

S.: Protection police (jargon)
SanKW: Medical vehicles
Sb: Clerk or department
Closing night: Handcuffs / Handcuffs
bobby: Police officer; Schutzpolizei (jargon, historical)
SchwD: Priority service
SE: Special units , highly specialized units for use in the event of an increased risk situation; Special duty
SEK: Special task force / special task force , special unit for access measures in the area of serious crime
SG: Subject area
Signal "0": Announcement by radio to / from the control center that special rights and rights of way have been released or will be used.
SILE or Silei: Security deposit
SIS: Schengen information system
SiWa: Security guard
SKB

T

TAFT: Red-handed perpetrator
TaO: Perpetrator on the spot
DO: Activities, statistical short name for the amount of all measures to punish traffic violations (not nationwide)
TBE: Fuel fraud
TD: Pickpocketing
TEA: Technical deployment unit.
TEK: Technical task force
TKSoNe: Special telecommunications network
TKÜ: Telecommunication surveillance
TLT: Tactical loudspeaker squad (Police Hesse)
TO: crime scene
TOG: Crime scene group
TSK: Transport protection command
TÜ: Telecommunication surveillance; Telephone surveillance
TU: Tactical accident reporting
TV: Suspect
TWE: House break-in
separation: Radiotelephone term for hyphen on license plate

U

UB: Party involved in the accident
U-HB: Custody warrant
UML: "Circulator"
UMEL: Accident report (unofficial) acc. Section 142 (3) of the Criminal Code
USBV: Unconventional explosive and incendiary device
USK: Support Command (Bavaria) (part of the Bavarian riot police → in all other federal states BFE)
UT: Unknown perpetrator (s)
Uz: Unknown witness
UZ: Immediate compulsion
ÜKDO: Assault command (since 1921 in Frankfurt am Main as a robust emergency intervention and access unit

V

VA: Traffic reports, all criminal reports that are primarily traffic offenses (processed by the traffic police )
VAMA: Video measuring system, permanently installed system for distance monitoring on motorways.
VB: Traffic obstruction, hindrance to the flow of traffic due to incorrectly parked vehicles or other objects or people in the traffic area; Liaison officer; Fighting crime
VD: Traffic service
VD-AP: Traffic service highway police
VDGr: Traffic service group
VDT: Suspicion of being drunk
VE: Disposition unit; undercover agent
vee: "Done before arrival", d. H. The reason for the deployment was (already) omitted before the emergency services arrived
VEMAGS: Process management for large and heavy transports
VF: Temporary arrest
VG: Warning fee; Negotiating group; Disposal group
SEE: Disposal group leader
V-HB: Demonstration arrest warrant
VI: Traffic inspection
VK: Transport Commissioner
VK: Traffic control; Incident
VKS: Traffic control system from VIDIT-Systems for monitoring speed, distance and LZA
VL: Administration and logistics, department responsible for personnel matters, procurement and administrative tasks.
VmZ

VUD: Traffic accident service
VUP / O: Traffic accident prevention / victim protection
VUA: Traffic accident recording (group)
VÜ: Traffic monitoring
VÜB: Traffic monitoring readiness, former designation of the motorway police in North Rhine-Westphalia
VUT: Missing , Unknown Dead - A combined area of the criminal investigation department
VVA: Traffic offense report, report due to a traffic offense (not nationwide)
VZ: Traffic signs

W.

WaPo: Guard Police
WaSchuPo: Water Police (not official)
WaWe: water cannon
WDF: Security guard (not nationwide)
WE notification: Notification of an important event (via the situation center)
WEGA: Vienna Task Force Alarm Department (AT)
WL: Guard chief
wPb: further personal details known
WSP: Water police
WSPVO: Water Police Ordinance
WSPW: Water police station
WuG: Weapons and equipment (sometimes also the name of the officer involved - the WuG )
WvD: Sergeant on duty (obsolete)

X

XP: Personal verification (first surname, then date of birth, then first name)
XS: Examination of the subject matter (mostly spoken for the city indicator)

Z

zA: for employment grade supplement before the end of the probationary period (e.g. PK zA)
ZAG: Civil Reconnaissance Group ( USK )
ZAE: Central sobering facility
E.g.: Interim report
zbV: at special disposal, "Official zb V."
ZEG: Central investigation team; Civil task force
TOE: Civil investigation hundredth
ZEVIS: Central traffic information system of the German Federal Motor Transport Authority
ZFE: Central wanted unit
ZFG: Civil wanted group
ZFR: Central Aliens Register (Austria)
ZIF: Civilian wanted / civil investigator
civil: civil forces
ZK / ZS: Payment card / payment slip (transfer form for warning money)
ZKK: Central Commissariat
ZMR: Central population register (AT)
ZOS: Central property protection
ZV: Hearing witnesses
ZPD: Central Police Services (or Central Police Technical Services), department that performs central technical tasks for all authorities in a federal state; Central Psychological Service (Bavaria); Central Police Directorate (Lower Saxony)
ZSK: Civil patrol command
ZuMiLa: Tractor with loading device, technical term for the Unimogs used by the riot police with a front loader and loading crane
ZVR: Central Register of Associations (Austria)

literature

Werner Sabitzer: Lexicon of internal security . New scientific publisher ( Memento of November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Vienna / Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-7083-0549-3 .
Sven-Erik Wecker: Police abbreviations . 4th edition. Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-415-05946-7 .

Web links

BOS abbreviations
Glossary - Abbreviations commonly used in police radio. FUNKE DIGITAL GmbH - Der Westen.de, July 17, 2007, accessed on November 22, 2014 .
Abbreviations for Internal Security & Police. abkuerzungen.bize, accessed on November 22, 2014 .
https://www.polizeiabkuerzungen.de/

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