Police advice center
Police counseling services (including counseling centers of the police and Criminal Police counseling centers are called) inform citizens requesting among other things, protection against burglary and theft.
history
On April 13, 1921, the Minister of the Interior stipulated that an official advice center for protection against burglary and theft should be set up at Berlin Police Headquarters, Department IV, Inspection B1. The first police advice center in Germany was located in the premises of the police service building in Berlin on Alexanderplatz. The advice center was manned by a detective superintendent and two detective officers. One of the main tasks of the counseling center was to educate the population about burglary protection and protection against theft . In the following years, official police advice centers opened in Munich and other German cities. After the Second World War, the first criminal police advice centers were set up again in Germany in the 1950s. In North Rhine-Westphalia, a decree by the Minister of the Interior dated June 16, 1952 regulated the re-establishment of criminal police advice centers in North Rhine-Westphalia.
organization
In Germany there are 262 police advice centers, most of which are attached to a crime prevention commissioner. You can obtain information about the nearest police advice center or their advice services from every police station. The nearest police advice center can also be found online at “Polizei-Beratung.de”.
assignment
Advice offer
The classic task of the police advice centers was and is, "... to give citizens qualified advice through individual and objective advice on how they can protect themselves from falling victim to criminal offenses through technical safeguards and correct behavior."
The advice centers in Germany today provide information on all police issues. In addition to burglary protection advice (on security technology, burglar and hold-up alarm systems, video technology), the advisory services include violence and drug prevention , police youth protection ( juvenile delinquency , youth media protection , child abuse , sexual abuse ), gun law , computer and internet crime and other police issues ( e.g. robbery , property crime , domestic violence , stalking ).
The counseling centers of the police orientate themselves towards the police crime prevention program of the federal states and the federal government . The aim of this program is to inform the general public, the press and other institutions dealing with prevention about means of preventing and about the modus operandi of crime . According to a framework concept, the police prevention program supports, among other things, the police advice centers in providing personal advice to interested persons by making specialist brochures, material and media available.
The police advice centers are specifically named in the implementation provisions of Section 36 WaffG (storage of firearms and ammunition) in anticipation of the AWaffV.
Brochures and online offers
Information material and specialist brochures on the police prevention program can be picked up free of charge from the police advice centers. Many brochures can be downloaded from the website.
Legal basis
In addition, some tasks of the police advice centers in Germany are regulated in the nationwide police service regulations 100, 129.
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the police advice service in Germany
- Police advice centers in Switzerland
- Police advice centers in Austria
- Free information material from the police prevention program of your police in Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Taschenbuch für Kriminalisten , Volume 42, R. Taschenmacher, 1992, p. 157, VDP.
