Police in Saarland

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State Police of the Saarland

Logo of the Saarland police with police stars
State level country
position police
Supervisory authority Saarland Ministry of the Interior, Building and Sport
Headquarters Saarbrücken , SaarlandSaarlandSaarland 
Authority management State Police President Norbert Rupp
Servants approx. 2700
Web presence www.polizei.saarland.de

The police in Saarland is a German state police force with around 2,700 law enforcement officers .

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

The powers of intervention of the police from the result in the field of security police law of the Land Saarland, the Saarland Police Act.

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

organization

With effect from March 1, 2012, the police enforcement authorities of the State Police Directorate and State Criminal Police Office were merged in the State Police Headquarters (LPP).

The state police headquarters consists of the authority management with the assigned presidential staff, the directorates LPP 1 to LPP 4 as the national authorities and the area organization.

The management of the authorities is carried out by the head of the state police headquarters and his permanent representative.

The presidential staff takes on tasks for direct management support of the authority management in the areas of management office, quality management / controlling, organizational development as well as press and public relations.

Directorate LPP 1 is responsible for the task area hazard prevention / deployment and exercises the technical supervision for all departments of the state police headquarters. In LPP 1 there are operational departments with nationwide responsibility (e.g. command and control center, central traffic police services, riot police).

Directorate LPP 2 (Fight against Crime / State Criminal Police Office) exercises specialist supervision for the central and decentralized fight against crime in Saarland. This is where the criminal police departments are grouped together, which carry out the task of combating medium and especially serious crime.

The LPP 3 Directorate (Personnel / Law) is responsible for personnel matters as well as training and further education in the Saarland police. A judicial office as well as the police medical and police psychological service are also located here.

In Directorate LPP 4 (Central Police Services), the tasks of the law enforcement police in the areas of information and communication, technical specialist services as well as household and economic administration are performed.

A total of 20 police inspections take on all enforcement police tasks in the area, unless they are assigned to other departments. Police stations and police stations have been set up in cities and towns without a police station. Police inspections, precincts and posts work together to ensure the presence in the area and are the point of contact for local residents.

Authority management of the state police headquarters

The President of the State Police Headquarters is paid according to salary group B4 and the Vice President according to B2 of the Saarland salary regulations.

President of the State Police Headquarters

  1. Norbert Rupp (since October 18, 2011)

uniform

Sleeve badge of the police in Saarland

At first, Saarland did not want to participate in changing the uniforms of the Hessian police to blue police uniforms . In the meantime (3rd quarter of 2015) the change to a blue uniform has started. For this purpose, a procurement association was established with the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. The (standard) uniform should be kept uniform in these three countries in the future. The following uniform parts will be standardized in the countries in the future: trousers, shirts / blouses, short jackets, anoraks, raincoats, cardigans, headgear. Notwithstanding this, the countries RLP and HE also have other items of clothing (e.g. fleece jackets). A main difference is (at least at the beginning of the introduction of the uniform) the lack of a protective vest, as it is already worn in the other federal states. This has now been introduced from the turn of the year 2016/2017.

vehicles

The police in Saarland mainly used Peugeot and Citroën vehicles as official vehicles, especially according to the Saar Statute 1955 , while Renault was used for the trucks . The background was that the Saarbrücker Kraftwagenhandelsgesellschaft (KHG) maintained good contacts in France even after the reintegration of the Saarland into Germany, so that Peugeot dominated the company car business for years. In addition, in 1967 Peugeot opened its first foreign headquarters in Saarland, and in 1977 the Peugeot plant moved to the Saarbrücken district of Güdingen . Well-known series that were used as police vehicles were the 403 , 404 and, until the mid-1990s, the Peugeot 405 . The trend reversal came in the 1970s, when vehicles from the Mercedes-Benz brand and Ford , which had also opened a plant in Saarland, were used more frequently . MB E-Class and MB Vitos are currently used. Special vehicles also come from Mercedes-Benz as well as Opel , Fiat , BMW and Peugeot. The riot police mainly used the VW T4 , Ford Transit and MB Sprinter from federal procurement as well as some vehicles from Fiat and BMW as command vehicles.

Coloring

In the course of the change of uniform, there was also a color change of the vehicles. The first blue vehicles (MB Vito) had been in use in Saarland since April 2014. A large part of the vehicle fleet had been switched to the color blue by the end of 2015, when the third generation of leasing based on MB C-Classes came into service. The vehicles of the Saarland water police had been in blue since 2004. With the vehicles introduced from 2015, the design of patrol vehicles was fundamentally changed in Saarland. In future, the Saarland will also be guided by the VESBA study. Accordingly, the vehicles are provided with (partly retroreflective) neon yellow applications which are intended to significantly improve visibility and thus safety.

Mark

New vehicles are registered with license plates in the form "SAL 4-XXXX", whereby SAL stands for "Saarland, Landesregierung und Landtag". The reason for this change was the abolition of the official registration number on March 1, 2007.

Police crime statistics

year Case numbers Clearance rate Suspects
1998 65,079 52.7% oA
1999 62,162 53.3% oA
2000 64.291 53.2% 26,297
2001 60,651 50.9% 25.173
2002 72.601 52.5% 29,194
2003 74,662 54.3% 30,870
2004 77,603 55.8% 32,698
2005 77.183 55.1% 31,743
2006 79,220 54.6% 32,288
2007 73,813 52.7% 29,300
2008 78.161 53.5% 30,651
2009 74,541 54.2% 29,972
2010 71,887 55.3% 28,846
2011 69,268 54.3% 27,275
2012 72,872 53.5% 28,012
2013 72,540 52.6% 27,373
2014 75,706 53.3% 29,510
2015 77,933 57.2% 33,633
2016 76,981 58.3% 33,098

Web links

Commons : Polizei (Saarland)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.saarland.de/89064.htm
  2. ↑ https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/saarland/grosse-polizeireform-im-saarland_aid-33584033
  3. ↑ http://www.saarland.de/polizei.htm
  4. ^ Police: Saar police are the penultimate federal state to receive blue uniforms , focus.de, September 10, 2013, accessed on September 13, 2013
  5. ^ Police vehicles in Saarland. Saar-Nostalgie.de, accessed in 2017 .
  6. ↑ The end of the Peugeot miracle in the region. Pfälzischer Merkur , March 29, 2012, accessed on September 2, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Jörg Fischer: Saar police get new uniforms and cars. Welt.de , August 7, 2015, accessed on September 2, 2017 .
  8. ↑ State Police Headquarters Saarland (Ed.): Status and Development of Crime Saarland 2016 . 2017, ISSN  1866-976X ( saarland.de [PDF]). ; further years: online