Sonja Penzel

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Sonja Penzel (* 1972 ) is a German police officer and has been the first female police chief in Saxony since 2018 .

Professional career

Penzel is a commercial lawyer , she came to the police as a career changer and was quickly promoted to crime director. Since 2010 she has been the head of the Leipzig Criminal Police Inspection . After further management positions at the State Criminal Police Office and in the Dresden Police Department, she became head of division in the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior in 2015 .

Head of PD Chemnitz

In mid-2018 it was announced that, as the successor to Uwe Reissmann, she was to become the police chief of the Chemnitz Police Department , whose area of ​​care includes the city of Chemnitz and the districts of Central Saxony and the Ore Mountains and to which a total of 10  police stations (PR) and a motorway police station belong. The inauguration took place on August 1st at Schloss Klaffenbach by the Saxon Minister of the Interior, Roland Wöller . Your appointment sparked wide media coverage.

She came into the public eye through the riots in Chemnitz , where she called on witnesses at a press conference to hand over existing videos of the riots to the authorities. In the discussion about alleged hunts during the riots, she said that 50 violent people had attacked the police with bottles and stones.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sonja Penzel Saxony's first female police chief. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 1, 2018, accessed on August 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Police in Chemnitz now listen to this woman's command , Tag24.de
  3. ↑ More and more women are running Leipzig's police Sächsische Zeitung
  4. ↑ Saxony's first female police chief in office , Sächsische Zeitung
  5. ↑ Change at the top of the Chemnitz Police Department , authorities Spiegel
  6. ↑ Sonja Penzel is Saxony's first police chief , Free Press
  7. ↑ Have reached a new dimension of escalation , The World
  8. ↑ Chemnitz fact check: Were foreigners chased down during protests? , Deutsche Welle
  9. ^ Right and left German protesters clash after Chemnitz stabbing , The Irish Times
personal data
SURNAME Penzel, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police chief
DATE OF BIRTH 1971 or 1972