Lower Saxony water police

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The Lower Saxony Water Police is an organizational unit of the Lower Saxony Police . It is one of 15 water protection police in Germany of the federal states, not including those of the federal police and the water customs. The headquarters of the WSPI is in Oldenburg . Since then, the WSP has been active exclusively in the coastal area of ​​the North Sea and the seaports of Lower Saxony, while the water protection police tasks inland have been transferred to the police headquarters. The WSP currently has 100 employees (2015).

Large coastal boat of the Wilhelmshaven water police

Responsibilities

The water police in Lower Saxony has local responsibility for 2,500 square kilometers of coastal water, 1,800 kilometers of federal and state waterways and 71 square kilometers of inland lakes. It is also responsible for the parts of the Middle Elbe in Schleswig-Holstein above the Geesthacht barrage and above the Geesthacht lock, including the lock system, as well as for the ports of Lauenburg and Geesthacht . The states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein have concluded an administrative agreement on the transfer of tasks.

Organizationally, the water police is part of the Oldenburg Police Department (PD OL) based in Oldenburg. The WSP control center for the coastal states in Cuxhaven is a joint maritime control center for the coastal states and is part of the Lower Saxony water protection police.

The factual responsibility in Lower Saxony is identical to the responsibilities of the water police in other federal states. As with the other state police forces, it mainly consists of:

  • Hazard identification and defense
  • Prevention and prosecution of criminal offenses and administrative offenses

Management and operational resources

The most common type of boat used is the small coastal boat (length 19.80 m) of the Damen Stan Patrol 2005 type . It was publicly criticized that the Norddeich police were given a rubber dinghy for a lake area of ​​around 600 square kilometers to be monitored.

Head of WSPI

Police director Jörg Beensen is the head of the Oldenburg water police inspection.

Reorganizations in 2007 and 2010

In 2007 there was a reorganization, during which the staff was reduced and departments were dissolved and merged. On October 5, 2010, the state government of Lower Saxony decided to carry out a further reorganization in order to save the budget, in which the water police should concentrate on work on the North Sea coast in the future. Associated with this was the closure of offices ( Hann. Münden , Braunschweig , Hameln , Oldenburg , Papenburg , Norddeich ) and a reduction in staff from 210 to 130. Since then , locations on the coast have been Emden , Brake and Stade with Wilhelmshaven as the central location. Inland shipping is monitored by the police departments of Lüneburg , Osnabrück , Hanover and Göttingen . While the employees of the closed offices no longer carry out water protection police activities, the other employees have been integrated into the local police inspections. The waterway to be monitored was expanded. For example, the Nienburg / Schaumburg Police Inspectorate looks after the federal waterways Weser (from Hann. Münden to Bremen ), Aller ( Celle to the confluence with the Weser) and the state waters of Hamme and Dümmer with ten employees .

Reorganization 2015/2016

In 2015 it was decided to change the organization of the WSP again. The competence center in Wilhelmshaven is closed and the WSP is affiliated with PD Oldenburg as a water police inspection. The previous locations get the designation Wasserschutzpolizeistation . In addition, the staff / coordination office and the joint control center of the water protection police of the coastal states in Cuxhaven belong to the WSPI Oldenburg. This change was implemented on January 14, 2016.

Boats

  • Sonar boat

  • "Small" coastal patrol boat WSP4 in Brake (Unterweser)

  • Coastal patrol boat WSP3 on the Weser in front of Bremerhaven

See also

literature

  • Horst Wendt: The Lower Saxony water protection police in: Lower Saxony and its police: Published by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior. Police-Technik-Verkehr-Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden 1979, pp. 210–215.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agreement between the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony on the performance of water protection police tasks on the Middle Elbe (Middle Elbe Agreement) of December 21, 2012, published in GVOBl. Von Schleswig-Holstein 2013, pp. 166, 333. Effective July 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.polizei.niedersachsen.de/dst/zpd/wsp/wspan/leitstelle.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.polizei.niedersachsen.de  
  3. ↑ DAMEN Shipyards Group: Damen Stan Patrol 2005. Retrieved April 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendung/extra_3/rueckschau/extra5571.html
  5. ↑ POL-OLD: Head of the water police promoted to police director +++ Further promotions in the police station Oldenburg-Stadt / Ammerland and in the police headquarters . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed April 24, 2018]).
  6. ↑ ndr.de: Massive job cuts at the water police ( Memento from January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ http://www.polizei-nds.de/aktuelles/startuß-zur-gruendung-der-wasserschutzpolizeiinspektion-wspi-111197.html