Braunschweig rider and service dog leader relay

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The Braunschweig rider and service dog handler relay (RuH) is a rider and dog relay based in Braunschweig , which was founded in 1912. It is an organizational unit of the Lower Saxony Police , which is subordinate to the Braunschweig Police Department . The relay at decentralized locations of the police headquarters is divided into the rider relay with 20 horses and the service dog relay with 32 dogs.

Equestrian relay

The equestrian squadron in Braunschweig consists of 20 police riders and 20 horses. Geldings of different breeds are kept on horses . After buying a horse that is usually three to five years old and ridden in, one year to one and a half years of basic training as a service horse begins. Police officers receive a six-month training course for riders when they start work. Lower Saxony is one of the few federal states that has retained a permanently mounted police force .

Another equestrian squadron in Lower Saxony is the Hanover rider and service dog leader squadron at the Hanover Police Department with around 32 horses that are looked after and ridden by around 39 police officers. It is the largest of its kind in Germany.

tasks

  • Accompanying and securing major events (football, music concerts, demonstrations)
  • Support of other police departments in their measures such as search, cordoning off, site search
  • Rider patrols in urban areas, in socially disadvantaged areas or ecologically valuable areas (parks and green spaces, nature reserves)
  • Support for large-scale operations, also in other federal states

history

The riding hall of the former Braunschweig State Stud, which was destroyed in the Second World War (view from the southwest)
Wall painting in one of the stables of the state stud depicting a member of the Braunschweig police force

The Reiterstaffel in Braunschweig was founded as a mounted department of the Ducal Police Directorate Braunschweig at the meeting of the ordinary state parliament of the Duchy of Braunschweig on April 30, 1912. The state assembly provided the state government with a budget of 70,450 marks for the years 1912–1914. The cavalry division was on the former state stud Braunschweig in patches St. Leonhard southeast housed the city. Until the time of National Socialism in 1933, 12 horses belonged to the relay, after that there were up to 30.

After the Second World War , the cavalry squadron took over its original duties in the city after being commissioned by the British military government and the Braunschweig Police Committee. The main task of the unit with 12 horses in the post-war period was the patrol activity to monitor against field theft. It was used for the first time at football matches in the Eintracht Stadium as early as 1948 . In 1978 the squadron moved into the stables of the hussar barracks on Altewiekring . In 2000 she moved to today's accommodation in the street Grüner Ring in Querum , where she has a newly built riding hall . On April 30, 2012, the centenary was celebrated on the site with 10,000 visitors at an open day in the presence of Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann .

Service dog squadron

The squadron has 32 dog handlers , each with a service dog . Dogs of the races German , Belgian and Dutch shepherd are kept . The dog handlers are spread across locations in Braunschweig, Goslar and Wolfsburg . Since the dog and handler form a unit in service, the dog is integrated into the handler's family. There he also spends his old age after retiring as a police dog.

tasks

  • Service as part of the patrol duty
  • Support of police operations with increased risk prognosis, e.g. execution of arrest warrants
  • Protection of major events with the accompaniment of demonstrations and the use of violent demonstrations
  • Property protection measures
  • Search for people hidden in buildings or in the area
  • Tracking down fugitive perpetrators, missing living or dead people
  • Search for objects such as stolen goods, tools for murder, drugs, explosives, incendiary agents
  • Public relations and image cultivation

literature

  • Erich Bünte, Hans-Hermann Deter, Helmut Dohr (eds.): Burned, sold, forgotten? On the history of the property at Leonhardplatz 1 in Braunschweig. Freundeskreises Braunschweiger Polizeigeschichte eV, Braunschweig 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034686-6 .
  • Joachim Rode: 1912-2012: 100 years of the Reiterstaffel in Braunschweig. In: pro police. July / August 2012 ( online, pdf version 1.8 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] of July 8th 2010: Reiterstaffel helps with demos, festivals, Castor transports.

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