Murder Investigation Board
A murder investigation commission (MUK for short) was a service unit of the People's Police of the German Democratic Republic . Its staff was mainly concerned with solving homicides and reporting missing children. The corresponding service unit in the Federal Republic of Germany is called the murder commission .
history
The term murder investigation commission was officially introduced in 1971 by a decree of the Minister of the Interior and Chief of the German People's Police. Since the founding of the GDR, terms such as special commission , murder commission or murder and accident commission were common for this service unit .
After the five states of the GDR were dissolved in 1952 and 15 districts were created for them, the People's Police also restructured accordingly. Thus, under the main administration of the People's Police (HVDVP), 15 district administrations of the People's Police (BDVP) were created in the districts. In each of them there was a murder investigation commission in Department II of the criminal police department. Due to the high workload, a second MUK was set up for East Berlin in 1984 .
task
The task of the homicide investigation committee remained the same throughout its existence. That was your job
- Handling intentional homicides
- Processing of reports of missing persons and unknown deaths suspected of a homicide
- Editing ads about missing children
- Handling other deaths under suspicious circumstances with questionable or difficult to determine facts
- Processing of deaths under suspicious circumstances of foreigners, arrested persons, prisoners as well as persons who were in custody of the DVP, members of the DVP and the other organs of the MdI as well as persons whose position in social life was of considerable importance
- Processing of serious accidents, as far as the recovery and identification of fatalities
Personnel and equipment
The MUK in the districts of Rostock , Potsdam , Frankfurt / Oder , Magdeburg , Halle , Erfurt , Dresden Leipzig , Karl-Marx-Stadt and Berlin had a target strength of one manager and eight employees (1: 8). On the other hand, the districts of Schwerin , Neubrandenburg , Cottbus , Gera and Suhl , which were rather sparsely populated , only had a strength of 1: 4. In 1971, all MUK consisted of a director, a forensic scientist and appropriate investigators. The MUK with its strong staff also had a steno clerk . When there was a corresponding workload, an extended MUK could be called up temporarily, to which up to 20 criminologists from other areas of the criminal investigation department joined. This basic structure remained until the dissolution of the GDR.
literature
- Ingo Wirth, Remo Kroll: Murder investigation in the GDR (= series of police publications . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Publishing house Dr. Köster, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89574-860-8 , ISSN 2194-0487 .