Center for information and communication technology

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Center for Information and Communication Technology
- IKTZ -

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State level Federation
Supervisory authority Federal Ministry of the Interior (Department B)
founding April 1, 1955 as the “Telecommunications Group; Incorporation into the IKTZ of the Federal Police: March 1st, 2008 "
Headquarters Potsdam
Web presence www.bundespolizei.de

Department 5 - Center for Information and Communication Technology (IKTZ) of the Federal Police Headquarters is the technical service provider for the German Federal Police with its headquarters in Potsdam.

tasks

The tasks of the IKTZ include, among other things, the support of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the field of radio technology according to § 10 BPolG, the support of the investigative departments of the Federal Police through technical educational measures to sustainably strengthen the fight against crime and the support of other users, e.g. B. the Federal Criminal Police Office , the Customs Criminal Police Office and the state police forces . The IKTZ and its predecessors are not officially a secret service or intelligence service , although some of them make use of intelligence services. Tasks are performed in accordance with the Federal Police Act , which prescribes the legal framework for the IKTZ as binding.

structure

Department 5 is structured as follows:

  • Central office for ICT expertise
  • Unit 51 - ICT Strategy, CERT
  • Unit 52 - Infrastructure
  • Unit 53 - Service
  • Unit 54 - Product Management
  • Unit 56 - Radio intelligence
  • Section 57 - Voice and data radio
  • Telecommunications strategy and research center

In the uniform file plan of the Federal Police, the Center for Information and Communication Technology (IKTZ) is listed under the Upper Group 18 05 Special Associations / Units .

history

The IKTZ as Department 5 of the Federal Police Headquarters emerged in 2008 from the "Federal Police Central Office for Information and Communication" (BPOLZSIUK), which until June 30, 2015 was called the Federal Border Guard Central Office for Information and Communication (BGSZSIUK). This emerged on November 1, 1996 from a merger of the telecommunications group of the BGS with the telecommunications services of the then Federal Border Police West.

The original telecommunications group (internally also called "Group F") was set up on April 1, 1955 at the BGS location in Hangelar and relocated to Swisttal - Heimerzheim in November 1975 . In the first few years before the establishment of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the service was also entrusted with the recording and evaluation of secret service activities from the Eastern Bloc countries as part of counter-espionage . Among other things, the radio observation service of the Telecommunications Group (Group F), which, like the other departments , was stationed at BGS locations in Rosenheim , Heimerzheim, Lübeck-Strecknitz and Meppen , was responsible for this.

In the Federal Ministry of the Interior , the Federal Border Police Central Office for Information and Communication (BGSZSIUK) was represented by an "BMI engineering group" that was directly subordinate to the Federal Minister of the Interior . The engineering group was responsible, among other things, for counter-espionage in the Ministry of the Interior and the processing of particularly secret measures. The department of Group F also specialized in wiretapping.

At the time of the German Autumn in 1977, employees of Group F installed listening devices in the cells of the RAF prisoners around Andreas Baader in the RAF prison in Stuttgart-Stammheim .

While group F remained at the Heimerzheim location, the "BMI engineering group" was spun off together with a subdivision of the Federal Intelligence Service into the Federal Office for Information Security in Bonn - Mehlem , which was established in 1991 .

Until 1994, the Federal Border Guard Central Office for Information and Communication (BGSZSIUK) was only operated on special instructions from the Federal Interior Ministers and was only subsequently legalized in 1994 with its then 500 employees by a new BGS law.

technology

Up to 1994 four reconnaissance services were operated, which also had four remote shortwave DF stations for their tasks :

The central evaluation takes place in Potsdam. Most of the wired IT data is also evaluated there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Standard file plan of the Federal Police. In: www.bundespolizei.de. Federal Police, May 24, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Organization plan of the Federal Police Headquarters. FIMST BPOL - 11 00 05 - BPOLP. In: www.bundespolizei.de. Federal Police, September 5, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Manfred Bischoff: The area of ​​radio observation / radio surveillance by the Federal Border Police (BGS) or the Federal Police (BPOL) of the Federal Republic of Germany is a specialty. In: www.manfred-bischoff.de. Manfred Bischoff, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ The night of Stammheim - What did the secret services know? In: www.spiegel.de. Der SPIEGEL, September 8, 2007, accessed on December 16, 2018 .
  5. ^ RAF series (I) - The final act of the rebellion. In: www.spiegel.de. Der SPIEGEL, September 10, 2007, accessed on December 16, 2018 .