Thuringian police

Thuringian police
State level	Land (Free State of Thuringia)
position	National Police
Supervisory authority	Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
Headquarters	Erfurt , Thuringia
Authority management	Frank-Michael Schwarz (Chief of Police)
Servants	6,900 employees, including 6,338 police officers
Web presence	www.thueringen.de/th3/polizei

The Thuringian Police is the state police of the Free State of Thuringia with around 6,900 employees, including 6,338 law enforcement officers (as of 2018). It is subdivided into a State Police Directorate (LPD), the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) and the Police Training Institutions (PBE). The LPD consists of seven State Police Inspections (LPI), the riot police (BPTH) and the Autobahn Police Inspectorate (API), to which three other Autobahn police stations are subordinate. The PBE include the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, the Police Department and the Thuringian Police Education Center .

history

Before 1920 the Free State of Thuringia did not exist, instead the small states of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , Saxe-Gotha , Saxe-Meiningen , Saxe-Altenburg , Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and the People's State of Reuss existed in the area . In these states there was gendamery or military police.

The Gendamerie and Feldjägerkommandos were communal police authorities, which were militarily oriented and had their origin in the years 1809 to 1855. Sachsen-Meiningen was the only state to have a military police corps, all other states listed had gendarmerie corps. Their job was to maintain public peace, order and security. They were mainly stationed in the country and each responsible for several communities. They existed until October 1, 1922, when they were dissolved.

Weimar Republic (1920–1930)

Officer and sergeant in the municipal police (1924)

On April 20, 1920, the seven individual states merged with effect from May 1, 1920 to form one state of Thuringia. With the merger and the 1st Thuringian state elections with the subsequent formation of a government, ministries were also created. The Ministry of the Interior , which had a police department, was established as the highest service authority of the police in the country . This was responsible for matters relating to the gendarmerie, general administration, organizational issues, officials' representatives, official salaries, disciplinary matters, employment relationships with the police and land protection.

With this creation of the new structures in Thuringia, the Thuringian police came into being, subdivided into the state police, the municipal police, the gendarmerie and the state criminal investigation office. Unlike today, the municipal police were integrated into the area of responsibility of the cities and municipalities and the mayor was responsible for the police and their tasks. The gendarmerie existed from 1922 as a district police authority and had a commissioner and officers subordinate to him. Initially under the direction of the Ministry of the Interior, on July 10, 1926 the gendarmerie was subordinated to the district offices . In 1928/29 it had a total of 15 commissioners and 315 commissariats with 339 officials. They were used for administrative tasks and independent police measures and were also allowed to take over the tasks of local police in the municipalities in the event of danger.

On July 3, 1922, a crime department (Department K) was set up at the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior , which was directly subordinate to the minister and was made up of local detectives. They were exclusively responsible for “matters in connection with clubs, associations and persons who pursued anti-state purposes as well as forbidden and dissolved clubs and associations”, which was equivalent to a political police. On April 24, 1923, the State Criminal Police Office was founded in the country, which emerged from Department K and functioned as an independent authority. Its tasks were similar, but expanded to include the areas of combating espionage and punishing all violations of the " Republic Protection Act ".

The state police of the Free State of Thuringia was set up on December 3, 1920 as a " barracked police " with a strength of 1200 officers. The units were distributed at 5 central locations in the country, which included the cities of Altenburg , Gera , Gotha , Hildburghausen and Weimar . It was divided into flocks of 130 men each, with two flocks forming a division with the aim of supporting the gendarmerie and suppressing resistance and riots . The sites were restructured as early as 1922, the Hildburghausen site was closed and incorporated into the other areas, and another change took place in 1923 when the Altenburg site was closed and rebuilt in Zella-Mehlis . The first state police officer law came into being on April 15, 1925 and regulated all matters relating to the recruitment, length of service and pay of police officers in the Free State. Since 1922 there were also two police schools in the Free State, in Sondershausen for the state police and in Jena for all other police careers.

Before the Third Reich (1930–1933)

With the election to the 5th Thuringian Landtag, the majority situation changed and a government was formed with the participation of the NSDAP . The former Ministry of the Interior was taken over by the NSDAP politician Wilhelm Frick , which first and foremost led to a change in the ministry to the "Ministry of Education and the Interior". A quarter of a year later, Frick introduced an enabling law into the state parliament, which was passed with a simple majority and, like the later law in the Reich, endowed the government with extensive powers, which also had a clear influence on the police.

The municipal police, the gendarmerie and the state police were nationalized and converted into a “uniformed police force” and the state police administrations were merged, creating a strong police force under his direct authority. Other changes had an impact on the State Criminal Police Office and the higher police school in Jena, which were subsequently dissolved. The training of the police officers now took place centrally at the Sondershausen location.

In 1932 the 6th Thuringian state election took place with significant gains for the NSDAP, which became the strongest parliamentary group and provided all ministers of the new government. Fritz Sauckel became the new interior minister . There were no fundamental organizational changes in the police until the National Socialists came to power, but all key positions were filled with NSDAP politicians or members. 1933 took place then the DC circuit of the Free State and the dissolution of all previous police authorities. From then on, the tasks of the police were taken over by other state institutions.

During the GDR era (1945 to 1989/1990)

After the Second World War , during the German Democratic Republic until October 3, 1990, there was only an indirect "Thuringian Police". There was predominantly the People's Police in the entire GDR, including three district authorities with seven divisions within what is now Thuringia.

Rebuilding in the Federal Republic (from 1990)

Old green badge of the Thuringian police

On October 3, 1990, when the GDR joined the Federal Republic of Germany, the Police of the Free State of Thuringia was re-established. With the re-establishment in July 1991, the Thuringian police were structured by the three former district authorities of the GDR, into seven directorate areas , each with four to seven area inspections and one criminal and traffic police inspection as well as one inspection for the central services. The police headquarters stood above the seven directorates. In addition to the directorates and the police headquarters , the riot police and the police administration office were established. Then there was the Thuringia State Criminal Police Office, which was only formed after the Central State Criminal Police Office of the five new federal states was dissolved.

The first police budget of the Thuringian police was in 1992, in which it was determined how many new hires and promotions there should be. After the state elections in 1994 it became known that the SPD , which provided the interior ministry and interior minister, wanted to dissolve the police headquarters. After a long and controversial discussion, this happened on December 31, 1997, with most of the tasks of the Presidium being transferred to the directorates in April 1997.

In Zella-Mehlis , southern Thuringia , the murder of Mary-Jane on June 25, 2011 caused great horror. The police arrested a perpetrator on July 7, who also confessed and was convicted in December 2017. During the visit of the then Pope Benedict XVI. in Erfurt and Eichsfeld on September 23 and 24, 2011, the Thuringian police took care of his protection.

Police structural reform 2011

At the beginning of 2011, the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior announced that the Thuringian police should undergo structural reform. On October 13, the then Interior Minister Jörg Geibert presented his key issues paper on possible structural reform of the police force to the Thuringian state parliament , which made a positive decision on the reform. Instead of the previous seven police departments, which are to be converted into inspections during the reform, a reduction to a central state police department as the central command and control center in Erfurt was proposed. In addition, the establishment of a state operations center was planned, in which all police emergency calls from Thuringia should be made. Furthermore, the traffic police inspections are to be dissolved and a national motorway police force to be created. In addition, as part of a personnel structure concept, around 11 positions in the Ministry of the Interior, 664 positions in the police inspections and their subordinate departments, and 113 positions in the riot police should be saved.

The structural reform of the police started on June 1, 2012. The state police department (LPD) newly established in Erfurt was assigned seven state police inspections (LPI). After extensive reconstruction work in the state police headquarters, the start of the commissioning of the state operations center (LEZ), a key part of the reform, was given in November 2013 . In the meantime, all points of the corner paper have been implemented, unfortunately with little success, so that the three current governing parties ( Die Linke , SPD , B90 / Die Grünen) agreed in their coalition agreement in November 2014 to evaluate the police structure, including the structure and working methods of the State Criminal Police Office . An expert commission from the University of Erfurt , commissioned by the current Minister of the Interior, Holger Poppenhäger , presented its results to the public on October 23, 2015.

The expert commission came to the conclusion that the goals of the police structural reform of 2012 were only partially achieved. There are a total of 64 points in which the commission submits proposals to the state government of Thuringia on how the structural reform of the police can be improved. The main suggestions include:

Transfer more tasks to the state police inspections and reduce their number to four
Dissolve the motorway police inspection as a special police authority and integrate it into the state police inspections
Stop downsizing and employ more police officers
Check the number of police stations and police stations

present

At the end of 2012, the then Interior Minister Jörg Geibert announced that he would reform the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The aim should be to ensure a complete clarification of the acts of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) and to correct any mistakes that were made at the time. In mid-2013, there was also the downsizing of civil servants within the Thuringian police. From the 7000 police officers at that time, around 800 to 850 jobs should be cut by 2020 in order to save money. Fortunately, this only partially worked, as today's numbers show. On March 30, 2013, one of the most stressful missions by the Thuringian police took place in a correctional facility . In Suhl-Goldlauter, a 52-year-old prisoner took a judicial officer hostage, and it took several hours before the SEK and several patrol officers were able to finish the operation without injuring anyone. At the end of 2013, as planned for the 2011 police structure, the state operations center (police control center) became the central element of the Thuringian police. Step by step, all previous small police control centers were dissolved and switched to the state police headquarters in Erfurt . On April 21, 2014, the Thuringian police again attracted nationwide attention with the damage to a water cannon 1000 . The first layer of the safety glass was damaged during a police exercise with eggs, tennis balls and plastic bottles.

In 2016 and 2017, the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs (TMIK) equipped the Thuringian police with new ballistic protective vests and protective helmets. In addition to the new ballistic protective vests and protective helmets, the Thuringia Special Task Force received new olive-green operational uniforms. In addition, the SEK Thuringia was empowered to use electro-pulse weapons, so-called tasers. In 2018 the Thuringian police acquired new assault rifles for the SEK Thuringia as well as a new helicopter for the helicopter squadron in exchange for the outdated Bölkow Bo 105 . In the further course of the year and 2020, the old 161 Opel Corsa and Mercedes E-Classes are also to be removed and replaced and additional new patrol cars are to be purchased for patrol and traffic service.

Significant cases (selection)

Gutenberg High School Erfurt

House Hohe Pappeln in Weimar

Mardi Gras 1984: A woman from Weimar found a woman's head on the banks of the Ilm . Due to the way of life of the dead, the Thuringian People's Police at the time quickly came across an alcoholic with multiple criminal records, who was arrested in Weimar.

On November 27, 1997, there was a shooting among three men in Henry van de Velde's former villa " Haus Hohe Pappeln " in Weimar, in which two of them were killed and one survived seriously injured.

On June 27, 1999, a Sunday evening between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., officials mistakenly shot a hiker in an inn in Heldrungen , as it could be assumed that it was the perpetrator Dieter Zurwehme .

April 26, 2002: Amok run at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, committed by Robert Steinhäuser with a total of 16 dead, including the police chief Andreas Gorski

January 2007: Several dead babies are found in Thörey in the Ilm district . A 21-year-old high school student from Erfurt was suspected of having killed all three babies within 5 years. She was thereupon sentenced to nine years imprisonment by the regional court in Erfurt with the offense of triple manslaughter.

June 25, 2011: Hikers find the body of 7-year-old Marie Jane in Zella-Mehlis . The Thuringian police got on the trail of the perpetrator Tino L. within 2 weeks through a large-scale DNA sample of all men in Zella-Mehlis. The Meiningen district court sentenced Tino L. to life imprisonment on December 21, 2011.

July 2, 2016: A mushroom picker finds the remains of Peggy Knobloch from Lichtenberg, who has been missing for 15 years , in a wooded area near Rodacherbrunn in the Saale-Orla district . The investigation into the perpetrator is still ongoing.

assignment

tasks

The mission is to ensure public safety and order . As a law enforcement authority , it takes action against unlawful and criminal acts, identifies offenders and analyzes patterns of crime. Another task is to avert danger in the area of internal security , that is to say, the prevention or suppression of illegal acts of any kind. In the context of traffic monitoring, it regulates traffic flows and plays a key role in emergency assistance ( emergency calls ). Furthermore, the police, in close cooperation with authorities for crime prevention to possible offenses in advance to detect and prevent.

Legal bases

For the area of hazard prevention, the Thuringian police's tasks and powers to intervene are based on the Police Act of the Free State of Thuringia, the Thuringian Law on Duties and Powers of the Police (PAG) and the Regulatory Authorities Act (OBG).

The authorization to intervene in criminal prosecution results from Section 163 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and, for administrative offenses, the same norm with Section 46 of the Code of Administrative Offenses .

organization

Building of the State Police Department of Thuringia (built 1937–1939)

Organizational chart of the state police headquarters

The Thuringian police are subordinate to the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs in Erfurt . The ministry, with its “public security” department, is the highest service authority for the police in the Free State of Thuringia. It reports directly to the State Police Directorate (LPD) in Erfurt, the State Criminal Police Office of Thuringia (LKA) in Erfurt and the educational institutions of the Thuringian University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and the Thuringian Police Education Center (BZThPol) in Meiningen .

As the intermediate authority and central management, operational and administrative authority of the Thuringian police, the State Police Directorate (LPD) in Erfurt is responsible for the majority of the administrative tasks within the Thuringian State Police. Subordinate to it are seven state police inspections (LPIs), a motorway police inspection (API) and the riot police (BPTh) based in Erfurt and Rudolstadt .

Service structure

The Thuringian police currently has a total of 53 locations throughout Thuringia, with all police authorities subordinate to the Erfurt state police department. The regional police inspections (LPI) subordinate to the directorate have a police inspectorate (PI) in each district and urban districts , to which police stations (PS) or criminal police stations (KPS) are subordinate. In addition, each state police station has a criminal police inspection (KPI), which can also be subordinated to criminal police stations.

In addition to the state police inspections and their subordinate bodies, there is a motorway police inspection (API) based in Schleifreisen at Hermsdorfer Kreuz . You are subordinated to three motorway police stations (AS) based in Nordhausen (north), Waltershausen (west) and Zella-Mehlis (south). For closed operations, the state police department is also subordinate to the riot police (BPTh) based in Erfurt and Rudolstadt. In Erfurt, the police helicopter squadron and the police medical service (PÄD) and the police music corps (PMK) are affiliated.

State Criminal Police Office

Aerial view of the LKA in Erfurt

The State Criminal Police Office of Thuringia has developed from the smallest beginnings into a modern and efficient central office in the state in the fight against crime . Founded in February 1991, it officially started its work in July 1991. Today the State Criminal Police Office is divided into six departments with currently 24 departments and over 550 employees.

The Thuringian State Criminal Police Office is the central office of the Thuringian Police for criminal investigation tasks. As such, it is responsible in particular to carry out forensic and identification investigations and to prepare expert reports, to coordinate the fight against crime and to collect and evaluate the data relevant for the fight against crime. It is authorized to issue administrative regulations with the approval of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior.

Further tasks and responsibilities of the State Criminal Police Office result from the Thuringian guideline for the implementation of the Police Organization Act (RLPOG). The State Office of Criminal Investigation was also assigned the technical supervision of the Thuringian police stations by means of an ordinance issued by the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior.

Education Centre

Education center of the Thuringian police

The Education Center of the Thuringian Police (BZThPol) is the training and further education facility of the Thuringian Police based in the southern Thuringian district town of Meiningen . Here the law enforcement officers are trained for the career path to middle and senior police law enforcement service and an extensive training program for police officers of all career groups is offered.

Thuringian VFHS - Police Department

The Police Department of the Thuringian University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration is located on the premises of the Thuringian Police Education Center. Since 1994 studies for the higher police service have been offered here. Hiring and the start of studies is always the beginning of October each year.

budget

The budget of the Thuringian police for the years shows a total of 414.606 million euros for the current year.

year	Budget in € million	year	Budget in € million	year	Budget in € million	year	Budget in € million	year	Budget in € million
1998	514,911 (DM)	2003	304.270	2008	310.483	2013	355.688	2018	387.282
1999	531.103 (DM)	2004	306,349	2009	311,529	2014	357.230	2019	390.502
2000	284,516 (DM)	2005	304,330	2010	341,088	2015	371.182	2020	414.606
2001	285,353 (DM)	2006	299,432	2011	342,409	2016	358,534	2021	- / -
2002	293,606	2007	301.978	2012	357,438	2017	368.285	2022	- / -

¹ The budget volumes listed above are only the million euros entered in the budget for the respective budget year.

education

The Thuringian Police Education Center and the Thuringian University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration - Police Department train all middle and senior police officers in Thuringia. The training capacity is currently 155 police candidates, from 2018 the plan is to have 260 candidates.

Requirements & entry requirements

In order to be hired in the police service of the Free State, so-called employment requirements must be met by the applicants. These are divided into general, health and school requirements:

requirements

In addition to the general requirements for a civil service career in Germany , the Thuringian police require a maximum age of up to 35 years, a height of 1.60 m, a suitable overall personality , a passed medical degree, according to the Thuringian Ordinance on Training and Examinations in Middle and Higher Police Enforcement Services (ThürAPOPVD) Examination, the passed aptitude test , as well as a certain level of physical fitness and health .

The minimum health requirements are healthy visual organs (at least 30% to 50% visual performance without glasses / lenses), well-groomed teeth , a resilient cardiovascular system , as well as the exclusion of certain diseases and speech impairments . As a school requirement, civil servant candidates must be able to demonstrate at least the secondary school leaving certificate with at least 2 years of completed training, the secondary school leaving certificate or the Abitur .

Medium law enforcement service

The training takes place at the training center of the Thuringian Police in Meiningen and lasts two years. At the beginning of the training, every accepted applicant is prepared for the new role as a police officer in a two-week introductory seminar.

In the first year of training, the theoretical basics are fundamentally trained, which forms the so-called basic course in various subjects and thus conveys essential basic knowledge for the later profession. In between, two-week practical lessons (first aid seminar, behavioral training, etc.) loosen up the basic course. Then the key topics (LT) tie in directly to the previously learned basic material and deepen it. In addition, both years of training are accompanied by training or lessons in sports, non-shooting / shooting and intervention techniques.

In addition, in the second year of training, there is an eight-week internship in a police station and the final exam is passed. After passing the exam, the trainee receives the professional status of police chief.

High-class law enforcement service

For direct applicants, training at the Police Department consists of a three-year BA degree. Those who have advanced to practice study in a two-year BA course. Here, too, the course includes academic and practical study periods. The basis is the Thuringian training and examination regulations for the high-level police enforcement service (ThürAPOPolgD). The course concludes with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree .

equipment

New blue national badge of the Thuringian police

uniform

The green police uniform of the Thuringian police was introduced with the re-establishment of the police in Thuringia in 1990. This lasted until 2008 when it was decided to introduce new blue uniforms in the Thuringian police from July 1, 2009. This is based on the uniform of the Hessian police . In July 2010, all police officers were equipped with the new functional uniform. In August 2018, the Interior Minister of the Free State presented a new uniform for the Thuringian police. With this change, the previous uniforms are to be abolished and exchanged for uniforms that are already in use in the states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein . The aim is to counteract previous delivery bottlenecks for uniforms of the current type.

Bodycams

The “Bodycams” pilot project was started by the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Municipal Affairs and the then Interior Minister Holger Poppenhäger on March 31, 2017 by handing over 18 so-called Bodycams from Reveal Media to a total of 40 officials, who work in alternating shifts for six months should voluntarily test in action. The test area for the eighteen body cams includes the police stations in Sonneberg , Gotha and Erfurt-Nord. Every civil servant is obliged to wear the eye-catching imprints of video recording or video on his / her operational clothing, as well as to announce verbally beforehand that he will start the recording. Each camera only records images and no sound and only the filming officer can start and stop the recording. The filming officer and the heads of the duty shift or the emergency and patrol service have access to the recordings , whereby only the latter two can delete and save the recordings. All recordings are deleted no later than 48 hours after the recording. Since August 31, 2017 the test phase for body cams has ended, an application by the CDU Thuringia for immediate equipping of all police officers by 2019 was rejected by the Thuringian state parliament in February on the grounds that the official final results should be awaited, which are not yet available.

vehicles

Vehicles of the Thuringian police

Volkswagen Touran patrol car of the Thuringian police

Patrol cars Opel Zafira , the Thuringian police

Police car Volkswagen T5 of PI Schmalkalden-Meiningen

"Habicht 1" of the Thuringian police

Opel Corsa as a company vehicle for contact area officers

Police motorcycle

WaWe 10000

Mercedes-Benz Vito , VW Passat , VW T5 and T6 , VW Touran , Mercedes-Benz E-Class , Opel Zafira , Skoda Octavia , Audi A3 , Opel Corsa D , Audi A6 and VW Tiguan are used as patrol cars for the police officers of the Thuringian police for use. Occasionally, older models such as the Mercedes-Benz C-Class , Land Rover , VW T4 or others are also used. Stripe motorcycles are BMW R 1200 RT . The riot police use vehicles from the brands BMW , Fiat , Ford , Land Rover , Mercedes-Benz , Opel and Volkswagen (all information as of 2018).

The riot police also include the vehicles special vehicles , water cannons 9000 and, since 2013, a water cannon 10000 . The Thuringian police also have two unusual "vehicles". These include two boats for the Saale reservoirs and a snowmobile, which is used in the Thuringian Forest .

In the course of the color change, new patrol cars and emergency vehicles in the colors blue-silver or blue-white will be procured. The first patrol cars in the new livery were introduced on December 13, 2006.

New police vehicles are no longer provided with license plates in the form EF-XXXX(X), but with EF-TP XXXX(for "Thuringian Police"). This happened in the course of the discontinuation of the official license plates at the municipal level in 2007. Since 2011, police license plates in the form EF-LP XXXX(for "state police") have been issued centrally in Thuringia . An assignment according to police headquarters is no longer recognizable.

Aircraft

As aircraft for the Thuringian police two are police helicopter of the type EC 145 is used. The police helicopters listen to the radio call name "Habicht".

Digital emergency radio

Example of a Motorola MTP 850

The digital emergency radio has been available to the Thuringian police in all of Thuringia since 2012 and is now used completely in everyday operations.

The first trial operation took place in network section 15, which contained the LPI areas Erfurt, Jena and Gera. This trial operation was completed in March 2013 and went into operation. In the meantime, network section 16 with the LPI areas Nordhausen, Saalfeld and parts of LPI Gotha was already in trial operation. Starting in April 2013, the LPI area in Suhl and the rest of Gotha will be integrated into the system, although it was only started in June 2013 in trial operation. All state police inspections in Thuringia have been working with digital radio since the end of 2014, but the full commissioning of digital radio with all emergency organizations will not be completed in Thuringia until 2022.

Motorola type MTP850 FuG and MTP 6650 FuG handheld radios are used for the operation and implementation of digital radio at the Thuringian police, and MTM 800 FuG units are used in emergency vehicles.

Service weapons and other means

The police of the Free State of Thuringia maintain around 5,600 service pistols of the Heckler & Koch P10 type (as of 2011) .

In addition to the service pistols are used in riot police and the arrest unit occasionally other firearms, such as submachine gun (BFE) MP5 , assault rifles , machine guns and sniper rifles used. Furthermore, the Thuringian police hold several multi-purpose pistols type 1.

The officers' further equipment includes a. also irritant spray devices and batons , several thousand ballistic protective vests and protective helmets are also available.

The purchase of new assault rifles in exchange for the old MP5 is planned for 2022 and 2023.

Note: Service equipment (weapons, protective equipment, etc.) from SEK and MEK Thuringia is not included here, in order to protect the institutions.

Police crime statistics

The clearance rate for 2019 was 61.1%.

Clarification rate and number of cases from Thuringia since 2000:

year	Number of cases	Change to the previous year	enlightened
2019	129,301	-13,857 (-9.7%)	74,046 (61.1%)
2018	143.158	−79 (−0.1%)	94,688 (66.1%)

year	Number of cases	Change to the previous year	enlightened
2017	143.237	−5,989 (−4.0%)	92,330 (64.5%)
2016	149.226	+8,986 (+ 6.4%)	95,199 (63.8%)
2015	140.240	−1,820 (−1.3%)	90,168 (64.3%)
2014	142.060	−250 (−0.2%)	90,778 (63.9%)
2013	142.310	+2,223 (+1.6 &)	91,858 (64.5%)
2012	140.087	+3,132 (+2.3%)	90,121 (64.3%)

year	Number of cases	Change to the previous year	enlightened
2011	136.955	−1,094 (−0.8%)	89,175 (65.1%)
2010	138,049	−632 (−0.5%)	90,083 (65.3%)
2009	138,681	−3,939 (−2.8%)	90,346 (65.1%)
2008	142,620	−4,498 (−3.1%)	91,980 (64.5%)
2007	147.118	−2,959 (−2.0%)	94,378 (64.2%)
2006	150,077	−2,309 (−1.5%)	96,204 (64.1%)

year	Number of cases	Change to the previous year	enlightened
2005	152.386	−11,890 (−7.2%)	97,068 (63.7%)
2004	164.276	−1,180 (−0.7%)	102,250 (62.2%)
2003	165.456	−665 (−0.4%)	100,606 (60.8%)
2002	166.121	+5,410 (+ 3.4%)	99,046 (59.6%)
2001	160.711	+4,768 (+ 3.1%)	95,688 (59.5%)
2000	155.943	−5,185 (−3.2%)	93,720 (60.1%)

criticism

The Thuringian police have been heavily criticized for years because there are supposed to have been errors and breakdowns. Especially in the case of the National Socialist Underground and in the Peggy Knobloch case , the Thuringian police were repeatedly held responsible for investigative mishaps. There is also criticism again and again because of wrong decisions or problems with the equipment of the Thuringian police.

Web links

Commons : Thuringian Police - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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↑ Posted by: Marcus Scheidel: 264 new patrol cars for the Thuringian police worth 14 million euros. In: thüringen112.de - The blue light portal. December 19, 2019, accessed on March 26, 2020 (German).

↑ Organization chart of the Thuringian police (PDF; 21.7 KB)

↑ TMIK budgets; Single or double households are indicated in each case (PDF files): 2000 (PDF; 1 MB) 2001–2002 (PDF; 1.2 MB) 2003–2004 (PDF; 1.3 MB) 2005 (PDF; 924 kB) 2006 –2007 (PDF; 928 kB) 2008–2009 (PDF; 915 kB) 2010 (PDF; 763 kB) 2011 (PDF; 721 kB) 2012 (PDF; 694 kB) 2013–2014 (PDF; 742 kB) 2015 (PDF ; 632 kB) 2016–2017 (PDF; 2.1 MB) 2018–2019 (PDF; 2.1 MB) 2020 (PDF; 1.6 kB)

^ Free State of Thuringia: Thuringian Ordinance on Training and Examinations in Middle and Higher Police Enforcement Services (ThürAPOPVD). In: thueringen.de. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .

↑ State portal of the Thuringian Police: Requirements for the police enforcement service. September 25, 2019, accessed June 22, 2020 .

↑ thueringen.de: Thuringian Ministry of the Interior - change to blue uniforms completed , media information 32/10 of July 15, 2010, accessed on January 2, 2011.

↑ Police soon to be black and blue instead of navy blue? Retrieved August 30, 2019 .

↑ mdr.de: This is how the bodycam test works with the Thuringian police ( memento from April 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) , published on March 31, 2017.