Rhineland-Palatinate police

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Rhineland-Palatinate police

Logo of the Rhineland-Palatinate police
State level country
position police
Supervisory authority Ministry of the Interior and Sport Rhineland-Palatinate
Headquarters Mainz , Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate 
Servants approx. 9,300 officials
Web presence www.polizei.rlp.de

The Rhineland-Palatinate police force is the state police force in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is divided into eight police authorities.

The independent police authorities include the five regional police headquarters in Koblenz, Mainz, Trier, Ludwigshafen and Kaiserslautern as well as the police headquarters for deployment, logistics and technology (PP ELT), the state criminal investigation department (LKA) and the police academy (HdP).

assignment

Police officers of the Rhineland-Palatinate police

tasks

The tasks result from law and statute.

The mandate is, in particular, to ensure public safety and order with a focus on averting dangers, including risk prevention and the preventive fight against criminal offenses and administrative offenses. As a law enforcement agency, the police take action against unlawful and criminal acts. The police also make contributions to road, rail and ship traffic as part of their road safety work.

Legal bases

For the area of ​​hazard prevention, the police's powers to intervene are based on the Rhineland-Palatinate Police and Regulatory Authorities Act (POG) .

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

International cooperation

The police of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate maintain international contacts and operate a large number of international cooperations with other countries. These include Australia , Belgium , France , Bulgaria , Estonia , Finland , Georgia , Great Britain , Israel , Qatar , Croatia , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Austria , Poland , Romania , Sweden , Switzerland , Catalonia , the United States of America as well various agencies or networks within the European Union . The State Criminal Police Office, the riot police, individual police headquarters or the Rhineland-Palatinate educational institution for the police work alternately, for example, in seminars, internships, internships, exercises or exchanges of experience and information. Depending on the occasion, there is also an exchange of forces and mutual support during operations between some countries.

There is also cooperation at the police level with the African state of Rwanda , with which Rhineland-Palatinate has maintained a so-called "grass-roots partnership" since 1982. As part of the international grant program of the Federal Criminal Police Office, which is supported by the State Criminal Police Office in Rhineland-Palatinate, an investigator from Rwanda was able to do an internship. The aim is to build up a worldwide network in order to enable a close cooperation between the criminal investigators.

organization

The Rhineland-Palatinate Police are subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior and for Sports Rhineland-Palatinate with the "Police" department in Mainz as the highest service authority.

The police department consists of the following units:

  • Section 341: Police and regulatory law, organization, gaming supervision
  • Unit 342: Police Personnel
  • Unit 343: Combating Crime
  • Unit 344: Police Inspector, Command, Operations, Road Safety Work, Situation Center and Police Communication Coordination Office
  • Unit 345: Information and communication strategy, security and technology (ICT) of the police; Coordinating body for digital radio of the BOS Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Unit 346: Police training, international cooperation, data protection
  • Unit 347: Police command and control equipment
  • Unit 348: Budget, Real Estate, Health Management in the Police
  • Unit 349: Crime Prevention Control Center

Structure of the police headquarters in the area

The police headquarters in Koblenz , located in the north-east of Rhineland-Palatinate and in the immediate vicinity of the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, covers an area of ​​6,440 square kilometers with its geographic jurisdiction. This authority, as the largest police headquarters in Rhineland-Palatinate, looks after 1,220,000 residents in the low mountain range around the Rhine, Moselle, Lahn and Ahr with around 2,600 employees.

The Mainz Police Headquarters : The authority's area of ​​responsibility is limited to the east by the Rhine and extends from Bacharach to Worms. In the west the responsibility extends to Kirn and the surrounding area, in the south Kirchheimbolanden and part of the Donnersbergkreis are looked after. The area covers a total of 2,500 square kilometers and is home to over 800,000 residents.

The Trier Police Headquarters : Cartographically located on the south-western edge of the Trier Police District, the old, but at the same time modern, city of Trier forms the crime and traffic geographic center of the Trier Police Headquarters. The city of Trier, with a history going back more than 2000 years, is the largest city in the presidential area and the seat of the Trier police headquarters. However, the area of ​​responsibility extends well beyond the city of Trier: along the Luxembourg and Belgian border, bordering North Rhine-Westphalia, in the north and northeast to the district of the Koblenz police headquarters, east of it to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz police headquarters, further south based on the Saarland - around 6,000 square kilometers in the Eifel, Moselle valley and Hunsrück.

The Rheinpfalz Police Headquarters, based in Ludwigshafen, Germany: The authority's area of ​​responsibility is in the southeast of Rhineland-Palatinate and around 885,000 people live there. With about 2,400 km² it covers the Vorderpfalz and the Südpfalz and belongs to the Rhine-Neckar economic area.

The Police Headquarters West Palatinate : The area of ​​responsibility lies in the southwest of Rhineland-Palatinate and extends from the North Palatinate Bergland over the Westrich down to the Palatinate Forest. The largest city in the presidential area and therefore also the seat of the police headquarters is the university town of Kaiserslautern .

Police headquarters, logistics and technology

The Police Headquarters Deployment, Logistics and Technology (PP ELT) is the youngest authority in the Rhineland-Palatinate police landscape and started operations as planned with effect from October 1, 2017. In the PP ELT, the formerly independent organizational units of the riot police, the Central Office for Police Technology, the Water Police, the Police Medical Service (PäD) and the special units now work under one roof. Due to the various tasks associated with it, the Presidium is active throughout Rhineland-Palatinate, parts of its organizational units even nationwide at the request of other countries, making the PP ELT one of the largest police headquarters in Rhineland-Palatinate in terms of personnel.

State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate

The Rhineland-Palatinate State Criminal Police Office (LKA) is the central office for combating crime based in Mainz. He is entrusted with the technical supervision of the areas of activity of the police in the country, which are geared towards the prevention and prosecution of criminal offenses. The authority thus has numerous central and coordinating functions in the fight against crime. The main task of the central office is to support the local police stations with services.

University of the Rhineland-Palatinate Police Department

The University of the Police of Rhineland-Palatinate (HdP), founded in 2015 as the central educational institution, is responsible for the training and further education of all employees of the Rhineland-Palatinate police. It is currently training more than 1,400 students. Interdisciplinary studies with the recognized degree "Bachelor of Arts" can be acquired at the HdP. In addition to theoretical and practical professional teaching, the course also includes international and intercultural topics. In addition to this main task, the Police University cooperates with other educational institutions from neighboring European countries, other federal states, the German Police University and other universities with the common goal of further developing security research.

Recruitment

The Rhineland-Palatinate police have adapted their structures and instruments for recruiting young people to current procedures in order to be able to increase the attractiveness as an employer in the application process. For example, she established the online application process in this area.

In addition, the recruitment of police officers is used, who come into a personal conversation with young people and potential applicants in order to clarify open questions directly and easily, to report on everyday police life or to give helpful and practical advice of various shapes.

Merchandising, information events and "open days" at police training institutions are also among the means used to attract young people.

public relation

Communication coordination office of the Rhineland-Palatinate police

The Ministry of the Interior and Sports has had the Communication Coordination Office of the Rhineland-Palatinate Police Department since October 2017, which was set up with the aim of developing and implementing a communication strategy with regard to internal and external communication. It is also intended to ensure uniform and contemporary public relations work by the police and to continuously develop it. The communication coordination office works closely with the press offices of the individual police authorities.

Use of social networks

The Rhineland-Palatinate police have increasingly expanded their public relations work to include social media in recent years. It operates accounts on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and YouTube and in this way informs users about various topics from everyday police life, various actions, events and the like.

The area presidia also operate regional channels on Twitter.

Police crime statistics and traffic accident statistics

The statistical surveys of all criminal offenses that have come to light in Rhineland-Palatinate, including attempts that are threatened with punishment, as well as information about identified suspects and victims are published in the form of police crime statistics.

The traffic accident statistics are also published once a year, in which the accident development and the police measures of traffic safety work are presented.

At the end of this page there are hyperlinks to the relevant documents.

uniform

Sleeve badge of the Rhineland-Palatinate police

Rhineland-Palatinate has gradually adopted the blue police uniform of the Hessian police . By 2012, all officers should have been dressed in the new uniform . On March 21, 2014, the Ministry of the Interior, responsible for the police, presented the new blue uniforms, which are gradually being introduced not only in Rhineland-Palatinate but also in Hesse and Saarland. The standard uniform consists of:

  • Uniform shirt (short and long sleeves),
  • Knitted vest,
  • Windbreaker,
  • Jacket,
  • Leather jacket,
  • Rain jacket,
  • Uniform trousers,
  • Uniform and duty belts,
  • Operational shoes (boots and loafers),
  • Gloves,
  • Service cap,
  • Winter hat.

In addition, special uniforms are used for special situations. These include, for example, motorcycle clothing or emergency suits, which are worn in particular during demonstrations and football matches.

Management and operational resources

Police officers of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate are basically equipped with the following command and control equipment in the area of ​​the protection police and riot police:

For special applications, documents are beyond machine pistols type HK MP5 available. In the course of the growing threat from terrorist attacks, the deployment concept “life-threatening deployment situations” was brought into being by the Rhineland-Palatinate police. In addition to special training for all emergency officers, this also includes the purchase of heavy ballistic protective vests of protection class IV, titanium helmets, extended first aid equipment and target optics for the HK MP5.

The police in Rhineland-Palatinate mainly use Mercedes-Benz , Volkswagen and Audi vehicles as emergency vehicles . Current radio patrol cars are

The highway police use the VW Touran , Mercedes-Benz E-Class 300 T CDI and VW T6 as patrol cars . In the course of the color change, new vehicles will be procured in the new blue-white or blue-silver color scheme. At the end of 2006, the first blue and silver patrol cars were handed over to the police.

Since March 1, 2007, new police vehicles are no longer provided with license plates in the form “MZ-3XXXX”, but with “RPL 4-XXXX” (for “Rhineland-Palatinate State Government”). This happened in the course of the discontinuation of the official registration number .

See also

Web links

Commons : Police Rhineland-Palatinate  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Dpa / tro: GdP union: The police in Rhineland-Palatinate are threatened with staff chaos. In: welt.de . September 11, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Three federal states, one policeman look Blue, blue, blue are all uniforms swr.de online on the Internet: March 24, 2014
  3. ↑ Less diversity in police uniforms: three countries join forces focus.de from March 24, 2014
  4. ↑ Service weapons and resources. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Metropolnews editorial staff, Metropolnews editorial staff: Rhineland-Palatinate: Police deployment training in "life-threatening situations" presented. In: Metropolnews.info. July 4, 2017, accessed on May 20, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Ministry of the Interior Rhineland-Palatinate: Training of the police in "life-threatening situations". Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 7. New vehicles for the police go into service. Website of the Ministry of the Interior, Sports and Infrastructure.