Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office

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The Berlin public prosecutor is a law enforcement - and criminal enforcement authority in the State of Berlin and the largest public prosecutor of the Federal Republic of Germany . The authority is based in Berlin at Turmstrasse  91 in the Moabit Criminal Court and has three branches.

Jörg Raupach has been the chief public prosecutor since November 2017. He had already been the permanent representative of the former Chief Public Prosecutor from 2015 and as such was commissioned to perform the duties of the head of the authority from April 2016.

history

The institution of the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office has existed since October 1, 1846. Since June 2006, the heads are no longer referred to as the General Prosecutor , but the Chief Public Prosecutor in Berlin .

organization

Superior offices of the Berlin public prosecutor's office within the departments of the Senate Department for Justice, consumer protection and anti-discrimination is the Attorney General's Office Berlin (see Attorney General's Office ), who also the public prosecution Berlin (see your attorney ) with responsibility for large areas of minor offenses, light and medium crime (including traffic offenses) is subordinate.

The Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office has over 800 employees, including around 300 public prosecutors (as of May 2017). These are employed at four locations, in addition to the headquarters in the Moabit Criminal Court in the buildings at Kirchstrasse 7 and Turmstrasse 22 and at the Westhafen (archive).

The operational area of ​​the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office is subdivided into six main investigation departments (main departments 3–8) and one main enforcement department (main department 9), each of which is headed by a main department head.

While the main enforcement department consists of two departments, a total of 35 departments are spread across the six main investigation departments. The core is made up of thirteen departments for general offenses - also called “letter departments” due to the assignment of responsibilities according to the name of the suspect - in which all proceedings against adults are processed that do not fall under the responsibility of a special department. There are also seven departments for offenses committed by young people or adolescents, including one with special responsibility for so-called intensive offenders .

There are the following special departments:

tasks

Preliminary investigation

Investigations make up the largest part of the public prosecutor's work . The total number of proceedings in which the public prosecutor's office initiated investigations against known perpetrators in response to a complaint or ex officio was 144,157 in 2007; there were also 58,739 proceedings against unknown perpetrators.

The distribution of the receipts for the known matters processed by the public prosecutor and the Berlin public prosecutor - 302,454 proceedings (2007) - was as follows:

  • Property and property offenses: 29%
  • other offenses: 22%
  • Traffic offenses: 14%
  • Offenses against life and physical integrity: 11%
  • Series, gang and violent crime as well as other crimes : 10%
  • Economic and tax criminal proceedings, money laundering offenses : 5%
  • Offenses under the Narcotics Act : 4%
  • Offenses under the Residence Act : 2%

Enforcement of sentences

The execution of the sentences is carried out by the public prosecutors and judicial officers of Department 9, who not only ensure that the prison sentences are served and monitor the probation , but also deal primarily with the collection of fines . These make up the majority at 79 percent, 12 percent are imprisonment or measures whose execution has been suspended on probation. 9 percent of executions concern imprisonment and measures without parole. The total volume of fines initiated for enforcement in 2007 amounted to 36,722,667.50 euros. A large number of convicts are allowed to work off the fine. In 2007, the repayment of fines through freelance work was approved in 7,450 cases.

management

Previous Head of the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office:

  • 1945–1951: Attorney General Hermann Loerbroks
  • 1952–1954: Attorney General Georg Brühl
  • 1954–1955: Attorney General Richard Preuss
  • 1956–1960: Attorney General Hans-Helmuth Görcke
  • 1961–1965: Attorney General Lothar Münn
  • 1965–1976: Attorney General Diether Dehnicke
  • 1976–1990: Attorney General Wolfgang Staircase
  • 1990–1994: Attorney General Hans-Joachim Heinze
  • 1995–2006: Attorney General Hans-Jürgen Karge
  • June 2006 - April 2016: Senior Public Prosecutor Andreas Behm
  • April 2016 - November 2017 Chief Public Prosecutor Jörg Raupach ( acting as permanent representative of the Chief Public Prosecutor )
  • since November 2017: Chief Public Prosecutor Jörg Raupach

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Raupach becomes the new head of the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office . Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination , press release, November 7, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ Sigrid Averesch: The judges were too lax for the king . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 2, 1996, accessed on November 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Andreas Behm becomes head of the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office: Senate approves the successor to Attorney General Dr. Barren . Senate Department for Justice, press release, May 2, 2006, accessed on November 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ About us . Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office, as of May 2017 according to the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Mission Statement (PDF) , accessed on November 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c The Attorney General in Berlin (ed.): 1. Report of the Berlin criminal prosecution authorities . Berlin 2008.
  6. ^ Friedrich Scholz: Berlin and its justice: The history of the chamber court district 1945 to 1980 . De Gruyter, Berlin 1982, ISBN 978-3110086799 , p. 279.