North Rhine-Westphalia police

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North Rhine-Westphalia police

Logo of the North Rhine-Westphalia police
State level country
position police
Supervisory authority Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia
Headquarters Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia 
Authority management Herbert Reul , Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia
Servants approx. 50,000, including approx. 42,000 police officers
Web presence police nrw

The North Rhine-Westphalia Police is the state police of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The police authorities are the 47 district police authorities as well as the State Office of Criminal Investigation , the State Office for Central Police Services and the State Office for Training, Further Education and Personnel Matters of the Police with a total of around 50,000 employees, including over 42,000 police officers.

assignment

Police star

tasks

The mission is to ensure public safety and order . As a law enforcement authority , it takes action against unlawful and criminal acts, identifies offenders and analyzes patterns of crime. Another task is to avert danger in the area of internal security , that is to say, the prevention or suppression of illegal acts of any kind. In the context of traffic monitoring, it regulates traffic flows and plays a key role in emergency assistance ( emergency calls ). Furthermore, the police, in close cooperation with authorities for crime prevention to possible offenses in advance to detect and prevent.

Legal bases

In the area of ​​hazard prevention, the police's powers to intervene are based on the Police Act of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (PolG NRW).

The authorization to intervene in criminal prosecution results from the Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO).

organization

The police are structured in two stages . 47 district police authorities (KPB) form the basis , with the KPB of the independent cities being police headquarters. Until June 30, 2007, the five district governments supervised the district police authorities in their area of ​​responsibility. The motorway police belonged to the district government until December 31, 2006, when it was added to the five police headquarters in Cologne, Bielefeld, Münster, Dortmund and Düsseldorf.

All police authorities are subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia (MI NRW). 16 of the 47 district police authorities are also responsible for the coordinated fight against serious crime .

State Criminal Police Office

The State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, based in Düsseldorf, has developed from the smallest beginnings into a modern and efficient central office in the state in the fight against crime. At that time there were five commissariats and an economic department with 34 employees, today the State Criminal Police Office is divided into six departments with currently 27 departments and over 1,100 employees.

With all the increase in tasks and competencies that the State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia has experienced over the years, it has retained its character and self-image as a service provider for police and judicial authorities, but also for citizens of the state.

The LKA NRW is a subordinate state authority subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the central office of the state for criminal police cooperation between the federal government and the states in the fight against crime.

Its material competence results from § 13 Police Organization Act NRW, supplementary ordinances and decrees.

The tasks include in particular forensic and identification investigations, the preparation of reports in criminal proceedings as well as the collection and evaluation of messages and documents that are important for the prevention and prosecution of criminal offenses, basic conceptual work and information for the district police authorities. In addition, the LKA NRW supports the police authorities in the fight against crime and prevention through a specialized range of services.

In the areas of organized crime, economic and computer crime, environmental and corruption offenses as well as politically motivated crime, criminal offenses are dealt with by investigative commissions of the LKA NRW by order of the Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia or at the request of a judicial authority.

The office building of the State Office for Central Police Services in Duisburg

State Office for Central Police Services

On July 1, 2007, the State Office for Central Police Services North Rhine-Westphalia (LZPD NRW) was founded as the new higher state authority. Major parts of the former ZPD were supplemented with various tasks of the district governments and operational matters of the LKA NRW. At the time of this re-establishment, the LZPD employed 1,022 people, 62 of them in the police squadron and more than 600 in the overcrowded main building in Duisburg. Another building in Duisburg has been available to the authority since December 2012 . The older building from 2002 now employs around 450 people, and the new building from 2012 employs around 480 people. This new building next to the Duisburg State Archives was built according to the "design-to-cost" principle, ie the maximum building costs were determined in advance. The equipment inside the building adapted to this framework. Changes with additional costs during the construction phase had to be compensated by savings elsewhere, so that the actual total costs during completion corresponded to the planned framework. The function “Director of the LZPD” is rated according to grade B 3. The function is occupied by a law enforcement officer.

Tasks of the LZPD

With its five departments, the LZPD offers the district police authorities any form of support. Whether it is the coordination of forces or operations in special situations and the special equipment required for this, or the procurement of uniforms, weapons, patrol cars, computers and other equipment of all kinds. It is also responsible for the free medical care as well as for the maintenance and repair of used vehicle and weapon technology.

The state control center of the LZPD, based in the new Duisburg building from 2012, ensures the cross-agency coordination of emergency services as well as the central management of communication processes, e.g. B. by switching radio and telephone conferences. Through the cross-agency coordination, e.g. B. in so-called ring alert searches, it ensures fast and effective cooperation between all North Rhine-Westphalian district police authorities. It is also the state and national reporting point for the traffic warning service. The communication center connected to the state control center controls incoming and outgoing messages for the entire authority. In addition, she is responsible for the nationwide coordination of emergency services, in particular the riot police, the regional cavalry squadrons and the special units, as well as the use of aircraft. In dealing with special situations, she supports the police authorities through the advisory group for cases of the most serious violent crime.

History of the LZPD

The LZPD has steadily evolved from its predecessor authorities and institutions. In 1989, the then Telecommunications Service (FMD) of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the then data processing department 4 of the State Criminal Police Office in North Rhine-Westphalia founded a new facility, the Central Police Technical Services North Rhine-Westphalia (ZPD NRW) . In July 2007, the ZPD NRW and Department 4, which was once again outsourced from the LKA NRW, as well as other parts of the district governments, the new state office emerged. Until June 30, 2007, the police squadron was also organizationally part of the LKA NRW, after which it was integrated into the LZPD through the reorganization of the North Rhine-Westphalian police.

Apprenticeships at the LZPD

In addition to police work in Duisburg, the LZPD offers vocational training to become a mechatronics technician , electronics technician for devices and systems, IT system electronics technician, IT specialist (both application development and system integration), as well as vocational training as a car mechatronics technician and gunsmith in the various properties .

Police squadron

Formerly helicopter squadron Rheinland u. Westphalia, the flying unit has been called the NRW Police Squadron since 1998. Locations are two flight task forces in Dortmund and Düsseldorf with their own aircraft yard and pilot training facility.

Riot police

The riot police (Bepo) have three departments, three technical operations units (TEE) and 18 police units. The departmental tours with one TEE each are assigned to the police headquarters in Bochum, Cologne and Wuppertal . The riot police have a total of 2,400 employees.

In contrast to the riot police in other countries, the Bepo North Rhine-Westphalia is not centrally stationed in a few locations, but is spread across 14 locations across the country.

Until 2018, the North Rhine-Westphalia police force was the only German police force to have no evidence preservation and arrest unit , or BFE for short. The corresponding tasks were taken over by the normal hundreds .

The coalition agreement for the state government of Prime Minister Laschet , which has been in power since 2017 , initially provided for the installation of a total of four BFE trains. In fact, it was decided to create a staggered total of three BFHu, each consisting of two BFE trains, in the years 2018 to 2021 instead of one hundred riot police at the Bochum, Wuppertal and Cologne locations.

Water police

The authority responsible for the waterway police is the police headquarters in Duisburg . The former water police headquarters is located at Moerser Strasse 217–219. Before the reorganization and integration into the PP Duisburg, WSP had 295 employees and currently has 24 boats. The following offices exist: The Duisburg water police station, the Bergeshövede water police station, Bonn, Datteln, Düsseldorf, Emmerich am Rhein, Essen, Cologne, Minden, Münster, Wesel and the Central Criminal Police Office (ZKB). The area of ​​responsibility mainly includes the Rhine, Weser, Ems, Ruhr to Essen and the North German canals.

State rider relay

The North Rhine-Westphalia regional rider relay is used in particular for missions for special occasions such as football games, demonstrations and larger gatherings. It currently consists of two locations, "Rhineland" and "Westphalia", with offices in Willich and Dortmund. There, 21 police riders and 14 police service horses each, including two training horses, are held. A merger of the two locations in Bochum is planned by 2021. The horses will remain in the Dortmund and Willich properties until they have been accommodated at the new place of employment.

State Office for Training, Further Education and Personnel Matters of the NRW Police

Sleeve badge of the NRW police

The training of law enforcement officials of the central service was most recently in 2001 at the former Institute for training of police of North Rhine-Westphalia (IAF NRW), now the State Office for education, training and personnel matters (LAFP NRW), headquartered in Selm-Bork instead. Other police training institutes (PAI) for the middle service were the PAI "Erich Klausener" in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, the PAI Brühl and the PAI Linnich , which was closed on December 31, 2007. The authority conducts basic and advanced training. Theoretical training for the senior police force takes place at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The LAFP NRW has to perform a variety of different tasks:

These include in particular

  • training for the senior police force (together with the University of Police and Public Administration and the training authorities),
  • training for the higher police service (together with the German Police University),
  • the advanced training of all police officers, e.g. B. introductory training for investigators,
  • preparing police officers for missions abroad,
  • the constant qualification of the members of the special units,
  • the training of police commanders in dealing with hostage-taking and kidnapping situations and
  • the state central personnel matters (e.g. transfer and replacement procedures).

Other tasks of the LAFP NRW include advising the police authorities and institutions (e.g. in personnel development) and supporting them. Other special services for the NRW police are advertising and selection for recruitment in the police service of the state of NRW. The state police orchestra based in Wuppertal is also organizationally assigned to the LAFP.

The German Police University (DHPol) is based in Münster, in the southern district of Hiltrup, as the central university for the training and further education of the higher service of the federal and state police forces. Forerunner institutions of the DHPol, founded in 2006, the Hiltrup Police Institute and the Police Leadership Academy had been based at this location since the mid-1940s. The university should develop into the most important forum between science and practice for the discussion of police issues in Germany.

Uniforms and grades

The new guard uniform

uniform

The uniforms of the North Rhine-Westphalian police were changed to a dark blue color, in line with the pan-European trend. On August 31, 2012, the Coesfeld District Police Department changed to the new service suit. Coesfeld was the last district police authority in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to receive the new uniform, and uniforms were changed at the Aachen police force in spring 2010. The cost of the new uniforms throughout North Rhine-Westphalia was put at 24 million euros.

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia procured a total of two different variants of the new uniform for everyday duty, namely the guard uniform (with a white peaked cap and short jacket) and the office uniform (with a blue peaked cap). A light blue shirt (short-sleeved in summer, long-sleeved with a tie in the cold season) belongs to the normal service suit, for special occasions there are white shirts with the "Police" imprint on the chest.

Furthermore, there are special uniforms for the use Hundreds (formerly riot police), special forces, the motorcycle (Krad-) driver, the bicycle strip (mountain bike), the squadron, the water police and for criminal investigation (eg. B. forensics , fire investigators etc.) .

Official titles

The police in North Rhine-Westphalia uses the national official names of the police forces of the federal states. By 2014, all civil servants in the middle service should have been promoted to the higher service. This means that epaulettes with green stars, or as part of the changeover to the new blue uniform, epaulets with blue stars will completely disappear from the scene of the police in North Rhine-Westphalia. This trend is also evident in other state police forces, including Hesse .

Resources

Armament

The standard pistol used by the NRW police is the Walther P99 DAO. The previous model of the Walther P99 DAO was the P6 (civil name: SIG Sauer P225 ). According to a decree of the Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , police officers are empowered to exercise actual violence outside of duty using pistols and revolvers with which they are officially equipped, as well as personally assigned irritant spray devices . After the attacks in Paris in 2015, individual police headquarters, including Wuppertal , Solingen and Remscheid , issued service regulations, according to which the carrying of service weapons as well as bullet-resistant vests are permanently prescribed on patrol duty.

vehicles

The police in North Rhine-Westphalia mainly use BMW and Volkswagen brand vehicles as official vehicles . The VW T5 and the VW Passat on the motorway are also used. The riot police sometimes use vehicles of the brands BMW , Fiat , Ford , Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen that have been procured by the federal government . In the course of the color change, new vehicles in the color scheme blue-silver or blue-white will be procured. The first blue and silver patrol cars were handed over to the police on December 8, 2008 , as part of the official presentation of the new blue police uniform by the then Interior Minister Ingo Wolf .

Until 2004 all patrol cars had the license plates of the responsible city (e.g. "DU-XXXX (X)") or the responsible district (e.g. "WES-XXXX (X)"). The initial numbers 3XXXX or 38XXX (deviations possible) were assigned as standard. Since 2004, the leased patrol cars have been converted to the uniform “NRW 4-XXXX” and “NRW 5-XXXX” license plates. The “4” or “5” in the license plate stands for the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior. The old license plate was still used for purchased vehicles until 2007. From September 2007 new vehicles with license plates in the form "NRW 4-XXXX", "NRW 5-XXXX" and "NRW 6-XXXX" will be registered. The reason for this change was the abolition of the official registration number on March 1, 2007.

In July 2012, the North Rhine-Westphalia police procured 2000 VW Passat B7s , which were intended to be used for 3 years. From 2015, 150 BMW 5 series (520d), for the state and the city 1800 BMW 3 series (318d) and 121 BMW R 1200 RT motorcycles were procured for the motorway police, some of them from the motorway police and some from the other departments all VW Passat should replace.

  • Group car in new blue and white paint scheme

  • Police car VW Passat silver-blue in new colors

  • Police car VW Passat in old green and silver paint scheme (front view)

  • VW Passat police car in old green and silver paint scheme (rear view)

  • Patrol cars Opel Vectra in old green-silver color scheme

Special vehicles

Since November 2018, special units of the North Rhine-Westphalian police have been equipped with MRAP military truck Survivor R from the manufacturer Rheinmetall Defense . The partially armored passenger transport vehicle protects the crew against fire and explosives, according to the Ministry of the Interior, this is intended to meet the requirements for use in terrorist attacks and against rocker crime . Modern water cannons of the type WaWe 10 from the manufacturer Rosenbauer have also been in use since 2012 .

  • Survivor R in blue-silver paint

  • WaWe 10

Helicopters and planes

MBB / Kawasaki BK 117 B2 of the North Rhine-Westphalia police

The North Rhine-Westphalian police use two Eurocopter 155 transport helicopters and five so-called alarm helicopters MBB / Kawasaki BK 117 , which are equipped with searchlights, thermal imaging, and the like for missions that require air support . Have video technology equipped. The helicopters in the fleet are currently being successively replaced by six new H145-T2s which, in addition to the thermal imaging cameras, are equipped with a fast roping system for deploying special forces . According to their own information, the helicopter squadron of the North Rhine-Westphalia police flies on average over 2,000 missions a year, mainly searches for missing persons and manhunters. The police also have two Cessna 182 Skylane observation aircraft , which are mainly used for traffic monitoring . The NRW squadron is stationed at the airports in Düsseldorf and Dortmund. According to their own statements, the squadron can reach any location in North Rhine-Westphalia within 30 minutes, the squadron is ready for use all year round as part of a 24-hour standby service. In August 2018, a working group was set up to examine the possibilities of the sensible use of drones in everyday police work, for example when recording traffic accidents. As early as 2013, NRW Interior Minister Jäger (SPD) confirmed that the police had been using two surveillance drones with an electric drive since 2009.

Watercraft

On January 28, 2011, the then Interior Minister Ralf Jäger handed over their new flagship WSP 1 to the Water Police Directorate . This means that the NRW police force has the most modern fleet of Rhine patrol boats.

public perception

Internet offer

The NRW police have been running an internet watch since 2007 , where online reports can be filed. After a massive hacker attack on January 31, 2012, the police web servers in North Rhine-Westphalia were unavailable for over 12 days. A spokesman for the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of the Interior previously falsely claimed that a security flaw found during an inspection was the reason for the precautionary measure. As the Westfalen-Blatt reported on February 11, 2012, massive hacker attacks were the cause at that time. According to reports, the site could not go back online in its last form and was completely redeveloped. Since May 2013 it has been completely online again in a modernized form.

Significant cases (selection)

Significant criminal cases in the area of ​​responsibility of the North Rhine-Westphalia police were:

Controversy

  • When the Essen police were deployed in June 1989, 13-year-old Kemal C. , who escaped from a driver, was shot dead by officers in self-defense after he had repeatedly shot at police officers with a stolen service weapon. The case drew both a discussion about the proportionality of police action among young offenders and calls for improvements to the security of police holsters.
  • On May 11, 2002, the mentally ill 31-year-old Stefan N. was severely ill-treated by officers when he was arrested and died a few days later as a result of injuries sustained in the process. The incident, which occurred in an office in the business area of ​​the Cologne Police Headquarters , was later referred to as the " Cologne Police Scandal ". The six police officers were sentenced to prison terms of between 12 and 16 months on probation on July 25, 2003 for collective bodily harm resulting in death.
  • At the beginning of 2019 it became known that during the investigation into the Lügde abuse case, evidence in the form of 155 data carriers had apparently disappeared in an unexplained manner from an office of the Lippe district police authority for several weeks without anyone noticing. Interior Minister Herbert Reul spoke of the incident as a "police failure". The local authority admitted a “blatant mistake” and commissioned an independent commissioner to conduct an investigation. The Ministry of the Interior also arranged for the North Rhine-Westphalian State Criminal Police Office to examine the processes . The Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) spoke of a "disaster" for the reputation of the police in view of the missing evidence.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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