Warning shot
A warning shot is the use of a firearm does not meet the purpose, the goal, but to alert someone by the use of weapons is threatened unambiguously. Signal and alarm shots are to be distinguished from this.
police
In police operations , the warning shot is based on the locally applicable police law . If a warning shot can prevent people from being shot at, it complies with the principle of proportionality in a civilian environment. A warning shot is - according to most police laws of the German federal states - the threat of direct coercion by means of a firearm, i.e. the threat of the use of firearms and the legal prerequisite for the subsequent use of firearms must therefore already be present. The latter is explicitly mentioned in the police laws of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein. A similar regulation applies in Denmark.
seafaring
In seafaring , a warning shot is used as a "shot across the bow" to induce the captain of the civil or military ship that has been warned to comply with the stop or turn-off order given.
Air Police Service
During the air police service , the intercepting aircraft can make itself known with light ammunition if the aircraft to be intercepted does not react.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ 85 cartridges in 2011: Police officers shoot less often on duty
- ↑ Thomas Mentzel, Isabel Schmitt-Falckenberg, Kirsten Wischnewski - "Eigenensicherung und Recht", Verlag Wolters Kluwer, published 2003, p. 94
- ↑ Thomas Mentzel, Isabel Schmitt-Falckenberg, Kirsten Wischnewski - "Eigenensicherung und Recht", Verlag Wolters Kluwer, published 2003, p. 171
- ↑ Finnish Navy fires warning shots at a possible submarine
- ↑ "Weapons may only be used on their own territory"