Ordnungspolizei (Hessen)
There has been an order police in Hesse since December 15, 2004, after the Hessian Security and Order Act (HSOG) was changed to the effect that municipal auxiliary police officers of the Order Office use the designation Ordnungspolizeibeamter and their authorities are thus allowed to use the name Ordnungspolizei .
The background to this regulation are changes in the area of responsibility of many Hessian public order offices or local administrations, which are increasingly taking on classic enforcement police tasks. The designation auxiliary police officer was also seen as inadequate, as it puts the officers in an unprofessional light.
In Hesse, auxiliary police officers can be appointed to carry out certain tasks of averting danger or to perform certain police tasks as an aid. As part of their tasks, these have the powers of law enforcement officers of the Hessian police . You may call yourself a police officer instead of an auxiliary police officer .
Controversial designation
The renaming was sometimes felt to be inappropriate because the name Ordnungspolizei was historically burdened by its use in the Nazi era . After corresponding complaints, on November 2, 2005 in some cities and municipalities (especially in Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt ) the labels were removed from the vehicles that had already been labeled with the police order . Other communities wanted to wait for a legal change.
On November 11, 2005, the SPD and the Greens submitted a motion to amend the Hessian law on public safety and order. The only point was the abolition of the term “ Ordnungspolizeibeamter” , which is also the name given to the organizational unit to which the officer belongs. In a survey that has since been carried out among the cities and municipalities in Hesse, the suggested names for the city police or local police seemed to emerge as the most promising alternative candidates. Also order officer or police authority were talking.
In the context of the parliamentary dispute, it was objected that the term Ordnungspolizei was not a word created by the National Socialist rulers. Rather, the pair of terms police and order have existed since police could even be used in German-speaking countries. As a designation of special police units, the term appears demonstrably from 1919. In this respect, the term stands in a row with terms such as criminal police or auxiliary police , which were also in use in the Third Reich . In the expert hearing it was said many times that there was actually no unencumbered word in the police sector from the period between 1933 and 1945. Because the Hitler regime, the Nazi dictatorship, had used the police as one of their pillars of the totalitarian, fascist state. The common word enforcement police was also used and abused in the Third Reich. None of the listeners had made a serious suggestion as to how another term could be used for the word Ordnungspolizei .
The draft was finally rejected on September 14, 2006 with the votes of the CDU and FDP .
The cities of Giessen , Fulda and other municipalities continue to use the term Ordnungspolizei . Other municipalities have meanwhile chosen terms that were perceived as more appropriate, predominantly city police or local police , e.g. B. in Darmstadt .
Uniforms and equipment
There is currently no uniform uniform for employees of the Ordnungspolizei or the city police. Due to the local self-government , each municipality can freely decide how its field service should appear in public. In most municipalities, the uniforms are similar to those of the state police and can sometimes only be distinguished by the inscription Ordnungspolizei or Stadtpolizei . In the majority of the municipalities, the police officers are equipped with pepper spray , handcuffs and baton . The authorities also have the option to equip their employees with firearms . For this, however, proof of needs and the approval of the regional council are required. So far, only the Frankfurt City Police have made use of this option.
Since the abolition of the middle police service in Hesse or since the change of the HSOG and the introduction of the term Ordnungspolizei , most of the order police officers have taken over the shoulder boards of the former middle service of the state police. There is also no requirement for the number of stars on each shoulder flap; however, the following regulation has emerged:
| Fee according to TVöD | Service title | Epaulette |
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| E5 | Police officer |
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| E6 | Police officer |
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| E8 | Ordnungspolizeiobermeister |
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| E9a | Ordnungspolizeihauptmeister |
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Web links
- Hessian law on public safety and order (HSOG) .
- A photo on www.polizeiautos.de shows one of the two vehicles complained about in Frankfurt am Main: a blue and white Smart from the Frankfurt law enforcement officers with the words Ordnungspolizei .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Section 99 of the Hessian Law on Public Safety and Order (HSOG)
- ↑ LT-Drs. 16/4641 , (PDF; 56 kB) from November 11, 2005.
- ^ Daniell Bastian, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, quoted by MdL Zeimetz-Lorz , LT-Prot. 111/2006 of September 14, 2006 , (PDF; 662 kB), p. 7713.
- ^ MdL Hahn in LT-Prot. 111/2006 v. September 14, 2006 , (PDF; 662 kB), p. 7715.