Liaison Officer (Germany)

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A liaison officer (VB) acts nationally between police associations and internationally between police authorities, and more rarely to other authorities. You should do coordination work. There are also liaison officers at customs. Some liaison officers also do police or customs work in supranational authorities.

Within Germany, liaison officers provide support for foreign police associations, e.g. B. with local and organizational knowledge.

Example of such a professional function : Liaison officer for the Federal Police Directorate in Munich at the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office.

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Border Police Liaison Officers

The border police liaison officers (GVB) are members of the federal police and fight off human trafficking , smuggling crime and illegal migration to Germany. They work outside of the federal territory for foreign authorities or in diplomatic missions ( house order service ). In 2006 there were 16 border police liaison officers abroad.

BKA liaison officers abroad

Since April 12, 1983 Germany has been sending VB (BKA-VB), members of the Federal Criminal Police Office , to foreign countries. The first place of employment was Bangkok (Thailand), other countries were other countries in Southeast Asia and South America until the end of the 1980s . In the 1990s, liaison officers were posted to the countries of Eastern Europe . While at first it was primarily a matter of combating drug trafficking , today organized crime and state security are also a field of activity of the liaison officers.

The liaison officers are experts in the host country (in particular the police-relevant aspects), have contacts with police associations and are able to speak the local language.

66 German liaison officers are currently working at 53 liaison offices in 50 countries. This means that Germany has the highest number of liaison officers in Europe. They mostly work from diplomatic missions. In order to carry out their duties, the officials are seconded to the Foreign Office for a period of four years .

It also works closely with INTERPOL and the police authorities in the host country.

Liaison officers are law enforcement officers with a career in higher or higher service .

For the 2006 World Cup , the national teams were assigned several liaison officers who operated from Germany.

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In addition to the police, the Federal Customs Administration also uses liaison officers for itself. In addition to liaison officers at Eurozoll (Paris), Europol (The Hague) or the World Customs Organization (WZO, Brussels), there are also liaison officers from the Customs Criminal Police Office who are deployed in other countries at customs and police units. These are officials of the higher and higher service of the customs administration.

Others

In some German police stations there are liaison officers for disaster control and the fire service (example: PI Obernburg am Main ). In addition to the liaison officers at German diplomatic missions abroad that are strategically important for the fight against crime, the BKA is also represented by a liaison officer in the KRZ (crisis reaction center) of the Foreign Office (Foreign Office). The BKA liaison officer in the KRZ provides tactical and operational advice there and provides police expertise, particularly in the case of kidnapping and hostage-taking of Germans abroad.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Albrecht Maurer: Delimitation of the Federal Police. Not just an organizational reform . In: Bürgerrechte & Polizei / CILIP 90 (2/2008), pp. 21–31. January 15, 2009
  2. ↑ a b BKA: History and Philosophy of Liaison Officials. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Liaison officers of the BKA, as of 12/2011 ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bka.de