Police of Lower Saxony

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Police of Lower Saxony

Police logo with police stars
State level country
position police
Supervisory authority Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport
founding April 1, 1951 by SOG
Headquarters Hanover , Lower SaxonyLower SaxonyLower Saxony 
Authority management State Police President Axel Brockmann
Servants approx. 24,000
Web presence www.polizei-nds.de
Police star

The Niedersachsen Police is the state police force of the German state of Lower Saxony . It reports to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport .

history

The Lower Saxony Police Museum in Nienburg / Weser depicts the formation and development of the Lower Saxony state police .

founding

The Lower Saxony State Police was born on April 1st, 1951 when the Police Act of Lower Saxony's Law on Public Safety and Order ( SOG ) came into force. However, immediately after their invasion towards the end of World War II, the British occupying power reorganized the police in what is now Lower Saxony. It initially had a communal structure based on the British model. The police law passed by the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1951, on the other hand, created a uniform state police under central management by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior.

Police build-up by the British occupying forces

Police museum Lower Saxony with Trabbi and anti - nuclear power demonstration in the 1970s

Immediately after the Second World War, the dissolution of the state order meant that public safety was no longer given even within the British occupation zone . Immediately after the end of the war, this made it necessary to rebuild the police with personnel who had no National Socialist burden. The British military government created a unitary police force in which the criminal investigation department was a subordinate part of the overall police force until 1951. On November 1, 1946, the state of Lower Saxony was brought into being by ordinance of the British military government .

Despite police decentralization, the British military government saw the need to create supraregional police facilities to combat serious crime. The “Zonal Bureau” (German: Criminal Police Office for the British Zone ) in Hamburg became the central facility of their occupation area . An offshoot for the areas of Lower Saxony that did not yet exist at the time (states Oldenburg , Braunschweig , Schaumburg-Lippe , Hanover ) was the “Regional Records Bureau” (German: Kriminalpolizeizentrale) set up in Hanover in early 1946, from which the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office later developed.

As early as 1945, in accordance with British instructions , a police school was set up in a barracks on Welfenplatz in Hanover for police training in the Hanover region, which at that time corresponded to what is now Lower Saxony . In May 1946 the police school was moved to Hann on the orders of the British military government . Münden relocated, which after a short time bore the name Landespolizeischule Niedersachsen (LPSN).

In 1947 police power in Lower Saxony was handed over to German authorities by the British military government. The police retained their communal structure with individual police offices until 1951, as initiated by the British shortly after the end of the war.

Distribution of tasks

Since its inception, the police in Lower Saxony, which was formed when the Police Act of 1951 came into force, consisted of the two branches:

The Lower Saxony News Police was added as a further division in 1952 by a circular issued by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior . The non-uniformed police department was responsible for state security offenses and politically motivated crime . In terms of content, its foundation was based on the police letter from the Allied military governors of 1949 on the supervision of subversive activities. When the entire police force was reorganized, it was integrated into the criminal police in 1974.

The division of tasks established by decree of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior in 1952 was essentially retained until the police reform of 1994.

  • The protection police were responsible for the traffic police tasks. The uniformed police were responsible for dealing with minor crimes (simple theft, fraud, bodily harm, receiving stolen goods, coercion) and for the initial security of the crime scene in the case of serious crimes.
  • The criminal police were instructed to deal with serious crimes that impaired public safety (organized crime, murder, manslaughter, sexual crimes, robbery, serious theft, fraud, economic crimes, hostage-taking, kidnappings, attacks, missing persons) as well as offenses committed by professional criminals . The female criminal police were responsible for crimes involving minors.

Reforms

The first major police reform after the Second World War took place in Lower Saxony in 1974. The reason was the crime rate, which had risen rapidly since the early 1960s, and the terrorism that began in 1970 by the Red Army faction , but also by the 1972 Olympic attack . At the suggestion of the Conference of Interior Ministers The Federal Government issued the Internal Security Program in 1972 , which was modified in 1974. The main reform points in Lower Saxony in 1974 were the introduction of “round the clock” police operations and the creation of local crime services . Special police units such as the SEK and the MEK also emerged during this time . In 1974 the employees of the female criminal police were transferred to the criminal police. In 1981 women were employed for the first time in the police force .

During the next major police reform in 1994, the protection and criminal police departments were merged. As early as 1992, a two-tier career was introduced for law enforcement officers, in which there is only the upper and the higher service .

The police training center for technology and traffic in Lower Saxony existed from 1963 to 1997.

The current (2014) structure of the police organization in Lower Saxony resulted from a major reorganization in 2004. The police were removed from the four district governments (Braunschweig, Hanover, Weser-Ems, Lüneburg) that were dissolved in 2004 . This resulted in the current police headquarters in the area, previously there were only two urban police headquarters in the major cities of Braunschweig and Hanover. In 2004, Göttingen and Osnabrück were added as additional locations for police headquarters in the area.

On 1 October 2007, were police training and police training reform. The "Police Faculty" at the Lower Saxony University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice in Hildesheim and the "Lower Saxony Police Education Institute" were merged to form the Lower Saxony Police Academy .

Spectacular criminal cases

Wanted picture from the police of the masked man in the Dennis case

Major police operations, disasters and accidents

Water cannons of the Lower Saxony riot police as fire engines in the forest fire disaster in 1975 in the Lüneburg Heath

The following events led to extensive police operations:

assignment

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 result from the Police Act of the State of Lower Saxony in the form of the Lower Saxony Police and Regulatory Authorities Act (NPOG).

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

A further authorization to prosecute administrative offenses results from Section 46 of the Administrative Offenses Act (OWiG). This is also called the "transmission clause" or "transformation clause" and essentially states that the authorizations for criminal prosecution also apply to the prosecution and research of administrative offenses.

However, various powers also arise from ordinances or other legal texts such as the Road Traffic Act (StVO).

In Section 35 (5) of the StVO, for example, it is written that every police officer may stop road users for traffic control , including checking their ability to drive and for traffic surveys.

organization

Ministerial leadership

The Lower Saxony police are managed by the State Police Headquarters (LPP) in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport (MI). The LPP is a department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, which is headed by a President . It is the top management body that controls the police organization, its staff, its budget and its technology. The LPP also exercises official and, in principle, specialist supervision of the police authorities subordinate to it.

Police organization

There are around 500 police stations in Lower Saxony , with round-the-clock shift work at 140 locations . Around 23,000 people are employed, of which around 18,500 are civil servants . Around 6600 employees work shifts.

The police authorities subordinate to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior are:

  • PD Braunschweig
    • Braunschweig
    • Gifhorn
    • Goslar
    • Salzgitter / Peine / Wolfenbüttel
    • Wolfsburg / Helmstedt
  • PD Göttingen
    • Goettingen
    • Hameln-Pyrmont / Holzminden
    • Hildesheim
    • Nienburg / Schaumburg
    • Northeim
  • PD Hannover
    • Burgdorf
    • Garbsen
    • Hanover center
    • Hanover East
    • Hanover South
    • Hanover-West
  • PD Lüneburg
    • Celle
    • Harburg
    • Lüneburg / Lüchow-Dannenberg / Uelzen
    • Rotenburg
    • Heidekreis (formerly Soltau-Fallingbostel)
    • Stade
  • PD Oldenburg
    • Cuxhaven (until December 2013 Cuxhaven / Wesermarsch)
    • Cloppenburg / Vechta
    • Delmenhorst / Oldenburg-Land / Wesermarsch (until December 2013 Delmenhorst / Oldenburg-Land)
    • Diepholz
    • Oldenburg city / Ammerland
    • Verden / Osterholz
    • Wilhelmshaven / Friesland
    • Water police inspection based in Oldenburg and control center in Cuxhaven with four water police stations (WSPSt) in Wilhelmshaven , Emden , Brake and Stade in the coastal area. [1]
  • PD Osnabrück
    • Aurich / Wittmund
    • Emsland / County of Bentheim
    • Leer / Emden
    • Osnabrück
Performance by the Lower Saxony Police Orchestra

The 6 regional police departments are responsible for territorial areas and have their headquarters in the respective city. Each police department is followed by a Central Criminal Inspectorate (ZKI), which investigates special areas of crime ( organized crime , corruption , gang and white-collar crime ). 33 Police Inspections (PI) are subordinate to the police headquarters. They are subordinate to 88 police commissioners across the country . Below the police station level there are 384 police stations in Lower Saxony. There are also 5 motorway police stations (PK BAB).

Independent, but subordinate to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, is the State Office for Police Equipment and Equipment:

Special forces

There are the following special forces :

and special organizational units that do not exist permanently:

Riders and dog teams

Members of the Hannover Reiterstaffel in front of the Ernst August Memorial

Lower Saxony is one of the few federal states in which there are still cavalry units with mounted police . The Braunschweig rider and service dog leader team includes 20 horses, which are looked after and ridden by 20 police officers . The Hanover rider and service dog leader squadron is the largest of its kind in Germany. It has 39 riders and 32 horses.

There are around 220 service dogs with service dog handlers in the dog teams. The dog breeds Belgian Shepherd (150), German Shepherd (40), Dutch Shepherd Dog ( 20), Rottweiler (3) and Giant Schnauzer (1) are kept. Police dogs first receive training as protection dogs . If suitable, a special training follows, which consists of the following branches (as of 2010):

Statistics on the clearance rate and crime rate

In 2012, the clearance rate for criminal offenses was 60.99%, which is a very high value and a value that has fallen slightly compared to the previous year. In 2012, the number of suspects identified declined compared to 2011, while the number of cases increased. The number of cases of Internet crime with 4746 offenses fell slightly compared to the previous year, but are at a high level. The police prepared themselves for this crime development with the establishment of the central office for Internet crime at the LKA Lower Saxony in 2009 and internal police training.

In 2011 there were a total of 385 cases of deliberate crimes against life (murder, manslaughter) (2012: 339), 98% of which could be resolved. This was the third lowest level since 2001.

The crime rate rose slightly in 2012 with 7041 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants (so-called frequency number ) compared to the previous year 2011 with 6947.

Lower Saxony criminal service stamp with the Sachsenross coat of arms
year Case numbers enlightened AQ Suspects
1998 567,871 284,649 50.13% 201,627
1999 547.902 275,345 50.25% 199.791
2000 564,469 299,629 53.08% 210.853
2001 566,896 298,594 52.67% 209,948
2002 608,467 324.142 53.27% 224.008
2003 593.616 317,598 53.50% 229,455
2004 587.252 316,577 53.91% 225,000
2005 601.557 335.197 55.72% 236.712
2006 603,597 335.101 55.52% 234.851
2007 607.075 345.192 56.86% 239.714
2008 589,967 345,331 58.53% 237,406
2009 590.233 353.936 59.97% 242,350
2010 582,547 366.494 62.91% 233.063
2011 552.257 339.186 61.42% 223,419
2012 557.219 339.863 60.99% 220.124

uniform

The sleeve badge of the Lower Saxony police introduced in 2006

Until 1976 the police uniform was blue / gray. Then the moss green and beige uniform was introduced, which the fashion designer Heinz Oestergaard had designed in 1974. In 2006, Lower Saxony began to switch to the European police color blue for police uniforms. The new, blue uniform essentially corresponds to the model created by the designer Luigi Colani and the fashion company Tom Tailor for the Hamburg police . In Lower Saxony, the changeover to the Hamburg uniform model was completed at the end of 2008 at no cost. The uniform value in the basic configuration is around 400 euros. Procurement for the entire northern network (Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Lower Saxony) is carried out centrally via the Lower Saxony logistics center .

equipment

Motor vehicles

Police car VW Passat Variant
Police motorcycle BMW R 900 RT

The Lower Saxony police force has around 4,200 police vehicles with a total mileage of around 90 million kilometers per year. Starting in 2009, the vehicle fleet was rejuvenated with 1,000 new vehicles for 23 million euros.

Vehicles from the Audi , Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen brands are predominantly procured as patrol cars , with occasional models from other manufacturers such as Škoda . The Audi A6 , Mercedes-Benz E-Class , VW Passat and VW Touran models are currently in frequent use. In addition to patrol cars with classic gasoline or diesel drives, other drive concepts such as natural gas , electric , hybrid or fuel cell vehicles have increasingly been tested and used in daily operation.

The police motorcycles come from the manufacturers BMW and Yamaha , and electric motorcycles from the Zero Motorcycles brand are also used.

The vehicles procured since 2009 also include VW T5 large-capacity radio patrol cars . They are to be used multifunctionally as patrol cars, mobile police stations or to transport emergency services. In addition, there are 30 VW Bus T 5 vehicles with improved crime scene technology, with which the 30 specialist commissariats for forensic technology in Lower Saxony are being equipped.

The hundreds of riot police mainly use the vehicles provided by the federal government, including vehicles from the brands BMW , Fiat , Ford , Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen , and occasionally vehicles from the Opel brand . The technical operation unit (TEE) of the riot police has u. a. Via light and radio mast vehicles , trucks (e.g. for the transport of barriers), tractor and working machines of the Unimog model , equipment vehicles and diving vehicles. In the so-called water cannon and special wagon train , the water cannon 9000 , its successor model water cannon 10000 and the special wagon 4 are in use.

Since the abolition of the official license plates, the Lower Saxony police vehicles have had "normal" license plates from the respective registration districts in which the police stations are located.

Coloring

In the course of the color change from green to blue, new emergency vehicles in the color scheme blue-silver or blue-white are procured. The first blue and silver patrol cars were handed over to the Lower Saxony police in early 2005. Older vehicles in green are gradually repainted or re-foiled.

According to a study on "Improving the visibility of patrol vehicles on federal motorways and motorway-like roads" ( VESBA study ), patrol cars used in motorway and traffic units in particular are equipped with signal yellow additional stickers that are intended to increase the visibility of the vehicles in road traffic.

A nationwide change in the color scheme of special vehicles (e.g. water cannons and special vehicles) with a blue-gray paintwork, which was adapted from the newly introduced water cannon 10000, is also to be achieved. Previously, special vehicles were mostly painted completely green.

  • Change of color from green-white ...

  • ... over green-silver ...

  • ... to blue-silver and ...

  • ... blue-silver with additional yellow stickers.

  • Special car 4 in green

  • Water cannon 9000 in blue-gray

Helicopters and drones

Police helicopter MD 902 Explorer "D-HPNA" at the Bad Gandersheim airfield

After two crashes in 2007 and 2010, a total of four MD 902 Explorer (D-HPNA, D-HPNC) and EC 135 P2 + (D-HPNE, D-HPNF) helicopters belong to the helicopter squadron at Hannover Airport and Rastede -Neusüdende . The helicopters of the Lower Saxony police use the call sign "Phoenix".

From 1979 the helicopter squadron also had SA 365 Dauphin machines . Two helicopters (D-HOPE, D-HOPQ) were still in use until 2016. The last “Dauphin” machine (“Phoenix 96”) was taken out of service in May 2016 and, with around 37 years of service, was the oldest police helicopter in Germany still in flight.

In 2008, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior announced that its area would be testing police drones in the form of micro-drones . Possible reasons for using a flying eye could be aerial reconnaissance, preservation of evidence, documentation, operations against armed criminals, but above all catastrophic events. This drone was used for the first time during the protests against the Castor transports to the Gorleben interim storage facility in 2010.

Boats

Boat of the Lower Saxony water police on the Mittelland Canal near Hanover

The Lower Saxony water police operates 46 rescue boats. These include inflatables, smaller boats for inland waters, but also larger boats for use in coastal waters.

Weapons and other equipment

As of January 2016, the Lower Saxony police had around 22,000 Heckler & Koch P2000 service pistols . Since 2016, the P2000 has been gradually exchanged for the new SFP9 model , also from Heckler & Koch . Around 11,500 pistols of the new model had been procured by February 2020. In addition to the service pistols, other firearms such as the MP5 submachine gun , assault rifles and precision rifles are used by the riot police and special forces. The armament with hand grenades and machine guns was abolished in 1979.

From 2002 onwards, the old HK P7 service pistols were replaced by the HK P2000. In 2009 the media reported that the state of Lower Saxony had decommissioned and replaced around 13,000 police pistols in recent years. The decommissioned specimens then ended up in the legal arms trade. Criticism of this practice came from the parents of the victims of the Winnenden rampage . Due to the criticism of the resale of the pistols, the Interior Ministry announced that it would in future have decommissioned service weapons scrapped. In the course of the conversion from the P2000 to the SFP9, 1,000 service pistols were processed into fountain pens and sold to collectors as part of a project; the White Ring received the profit of 32,000 euros .

Further equipment includes u. a. Irritant sprayers and tonfas , as well as 15,000 ballistic protective vests are available.

Operational means of communication

The BOS radio has meanwhile been converted to digital radio .

Electronic work equipment

Horses and service dogs

The police in Lower Saxony have 51 police horses on horseback and around 220 service dogs .

Symbols

Sign for police station with police star

As part of the state administration, the Lower Saxony police use the white Lower Saxony horse on a red background as a national emblem . The symbol is used in the context of corporate design on uniforms, stationery and websites, often in connection with the police officer .

Offspring and attitudes

Lower Saxony employs around 1,100 applicants for the police force every year. For school leavers, high school graduates as well as technical high school students are accepted. Realschule students can qualify by attending a technical college for two years. Applicants with a migrant background who speak the language of a population group living here are also employed. Study starts on October 1st and April 1st of each year.

Union interest groups

Representatives for the interests of police workers are mainly the trade unions:

Others

Police doll Koslowski of the police doll stage in Hanover

There is a mentoring program for female employees in the Lower Saxony police . It is intended to promote the professional advancement of women and increase the proportion of female managers.

The retired police officer Klaus Krumfuß (CDU) has been a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament since 1998 , the police officer Johann-Heinrich Ahlers (CDU) since 2003. The police officer Kirsten Lühmann (SPD) has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 .

There are police dolls ' stages in East Friesland , based in Aurich , Osnabrück and Hanover . They appear in elementary schools and kindergartens with pieces for traffic and crime prevention .

In July 2010, the trial training of turkey vultures bred in Carinthia began to search for corpses .

Internet watch

The Lower Saxony police operate an internet station where online reports can be filed. The internal police intranet offer is primarily represented by the Intranet Information System (ISI). In this system, all members of the police have the opportunity to publish posts internally.

Facebook manhunt

Since June 2012, the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office has been using the social network Facebook for search calls, which the authority places centrally for the Lower Saxony police. The use of Facebook for police purposes took place nationwide for the first time in 2011 by the Hanover Police Department , but was canceled for data protection reasons.

Cyber ​​crime guide

On October 21, 2013, Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius presented the Lower Saxony police's virtual advice platform on cybercrime at www.polizei-praevention.de to the public. The website is managed by the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office . Numerous current information and tips on all aspects of cybercrime are published in the Internet Crime Guide, also known as RIK for short. The advisor is nationwide the first police advice center and prevention site on the sole topic of cybercrime. The visitor can also put a personal question to the Lower Saxony police regarding cybercrime.

Employee newspaper

From 1985 the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior published the staff newspaper " Polizei-Extraablatt" for police officers with a circulation of 5,000 copies. In 2007 they switched to color printing and the magazine was named "proPolizei". It is distributed as a printed brochure and is also posted on the police intranet .

Beagle Luise

Wild boar Luise with her guide and trainer

Between 1985 and 1987 the wild boar Luise was employed by the Lower Saxony police. A police dog handler from Hildesheim trained the animal in the same way as service dogs to track down drugs and explosives. Initially, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior did not want to cover any costs for board and lodging and banned Luise from police properties. Only after the intervention of Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht was the pig officially adopted as a police resource under the name Spürwildschwein (SWS). Successful searches on numerous television appearances and public screenings in Germany made Luise a popular figure for the Lower Saxony police. The press about Luise went around the world, and in 1986 an entry was made in the Guinness Book of Records as the first detection boar in the police force. That same year, said the Association of Taxpayers Luise the piggy bank of the year . In 1987 Luise retired together with her guide.

Media reception

In the television series Tatort by NDR , Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm (actress Maria Furtwängler ) solves fictional murders in Lower Saxony. From 2002 until today (July 2016) 23 films have been shown. Starting from her office in Hanover, she is active throughout the state of Lower Saxony, mainly in small towns and villages, where she works with local police officers. The supra-regional investigative activity enables a dramaturgical trick, according to which the chief detective works for the state criminal investigation office of Lower Saxony . Intention of the NDR is obvious, country and people of the area country to bring Saxony closer to the audience. The episodes of the crime scene Who Deserves Honor 2007 and 2009 Das Gespenst led to public discussions .

literature

  • Rolf Wehrhahn (Red.): Lower Saxony and its police: Published by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior. Police-Technik-Verkehr-Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden 1979.
  • Dirk Götting / Carsten Rose: Lower Saxony , in: Hermann Groß / Bernhard Frevel / Carsten Dams (eds.): Handbuch der Polizeien Deutschlands , Wiesbaden (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften) 2008, pp. 261–288. ISBN 978-3-531-15709-2

Web links

Commons : Police of Lower Saxony  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  13. ↑ Suspected murderer arrested by Dennis - the police chased a phantom on Wikinews for ten years
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  21. ↑ Braunschweig Equestrian Relay
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  33. ↑ Police and fire brigade are testing remote-controlled mini drones
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  40. ↑ Pedagogical Police Puppet Stage Ostfriesland  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.polizei.niedersachsen.de
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  42. ↑ Police are testing vultures in Lower Saxony to search for bodies . In: Neue Presse (Hanover), July 14, 2010
  43. ^ LKA is looking for friends on Facebook in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 18, 2012
  44. ↑ Police should no longer use Facebook in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 27, 2012
  45. ↑ proPOLIZEI replaces the police special edition
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