Police vehicle
Police vehicles are service vehicles of the police and are part of their command and operational means . The vast majority of police vehicles are uniformed vehicles ( emergency vehicles ), which can also claim rights of way under traffic law . They are an indispensable tool in the field (e.g. patrol duty , monitoring the flow of traffic , escorts on state visits and private operations ).
Emergency vehicles
- Patrol car or patrol car (FuStW) in Berlin squad cars section (EWA), historically also radio car, emergency vehicles, fast patrol car
- Motorcycles (mainly motorcycle patrols)
- Group vehicles (GruKW), (among other things in the case of deployment hunks )
- Semi-group vehicles (HGruKW), mostly minibuses (e.g. when there are hundreds )
- Prisoners' vehicles (GefKW) or push-pull buses for transporting prisoners in various sizes (from minibuses to coaches )
- Water cannons (WaWe) of the technical operational units
- Lichtmastkraftwagen (LiMaKW) for illuminating emergency locations
- Command vehicles (BefkW) in various sizes
- Service dog driver vehicles (DHFüKW, also DHuFüKW), earlier mostly station wagons , nowadays often minibuses
- Vehicles of the civil patrol and the criminal police
- Medical vehicles
- Evidence preservation and documentation vehicles (BeDoKW), previous models evidence preservation vehicles (BeSiKW), for video recording of events
- Test vehicles (PrüfKW) for traffic monitoring
- Video transmission vehicle ( illustration )
- Loudspeaker vehicles (LauKW)
- Unimogs and other tractors (BePo, BPol), often referred to as ZuMiLa (tractor with loading device).
- Kitchen vehicles (for large-scale operations)
- Special car (SW, armored)
- self-propelled machines (e.g. wheel loaders , forklifts / industrial trucks , small mobile cranes )
- Buses
- Segway Personal Transporter (Freiburg im Breisgau; pilot projects in Saarbrücken and Regensburg)
- Bicycles (for patrol trips)
- Trailer for the above vehicles
A distinction must be made whether these are uniformed (painting and inscription) or civilian. However, a police vehicle is such a vehicle even if it is used in civilian fashion.
For the most part, all vehicles are equipped with blue rotating beacons and secondary horns , BOS radios and stop signal transmitters. In other nations, light and sound guides other than the “blue light” (rotating beacon) known in Germany and the “ Martinshorn ” (secondary tone horn) known in Germany are also in use.
In the sense of the definitions made by the legislator, police helicopters (as aircraft ) as well as boats and ships (as watercraft ) of the police or coast guards also count as police vehicles. In the case of coast guards, however, it should be noted that in many countries they are not necessarily part of the police, but rather the navy, customs or tax authorities and even in Germany the coast guard is only part of a defined cooperation between state and federal police, customs , and the Federal Maritime Office and hydrography as well as fisheries control . In this sense, not every watercraft used by the coast guard is a police vehicle , although the coast guard always has to perform and may enforce shipping police duties.
Illustrations
Emergency vehicle of the Lower Saxony police on Norderney
Volkswagen Touran patrol car of the Thuringian police at the "summer win" in Eisenach
Patrol cars Opel Zafira , the Thuringian police in front of the castle Elizabeth Castle in Meiningen
Various police vehicles (Federal Police Germany)
Loudspeaker cars (Bavaria)
Swiss police vehicle of the municipal police of Muralto and Minusio in Locarno, Canton Ticino
Lower Saxony patrol car in blue and silver paint scheme
Austrian police vehicle in blue, red and silver livery
American Police Emergency Vehicle (in Washington, DC )
Ferrari 250 GT 2 + 2 of the Italian Squadra Mobile (1963)
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literature
- Frank Schwede: Police vehicles. Police patrol car & transporter .
- Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 2000, ISBN 978-3-613-02080-1
- Martina Galunder-Verlag, Nümbrecht 2006, no longer published
- Werner Oswald: The vehicles of the police and the Federal Border Guard - police vehicles from 1920 to 1974 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-87943-332-1 .
- Johannes Otto: Police cars in the Weimar Republic. Police technology traffic, issue 8/1967
- Kurt-Götz Fiedler: Review of the police exhibition: The power train in business and army , October 1926
- Paul Riege: A little police story. Publishing house for police literature, Lübeck, 1966
- Paul Riege: The police of all countries in words and pictures. Metro-Verlag, Dresden, 1928
- Gustav Schmitt: Street armored car - The special car of the police . Eisgenschmidt publishing house, Berlin 1925
Web links
- Pictures and information on current German police vehicles
- Pictures and information about old police cars
- Pictures of police cars from all over the world