Civil patrol
Civil strife (partially civilian task force - ZEG , search and control troop , civil reconnaissance group or civil traffic surveillance ) refers to the patrol service of the police in Germany , where the police status is not recognizable.
description
The area of responsibility of civil strife consists primarily of criminal prosecution in the context of operations , patrol duty and the observation of people and objects as well as the execution of arrest warrants . The initially undisclosed professional quality of the civilian forces (police status) is based on considerations of police tactics. When using uniformed forces, the police purpose of law enforcement and security would not be possible in many operations. A common example of this is the use of civil patrols by the motorway police. Camouflaged vehicles with speed measurement and video recording systems (see: Police-Pilot-System ) are used, which can only be recognized after documentation of any traffic violations by means of a warning signal or blue light and / or siren.
vehicles
Police vehicles used by civil patrols (civil vehicles) are usually painted in a neutral color (for example: dark gray / metallic silver, black, dark blue / medium blue, dark green, red). Mainly medium-class station wagons and sedans from German manufacturers are used (for example: VW Passat / Golf Variant / Touran, Opel Astra / Insignia, BMW 3/5-series, Mercedes E-Class), less often foreign makes, but also small cars (VW Golf ) as well as vans (especially VW T5). These vehicles usually have a significantly extended radio antenna, hidden LED front, window and / or rear window flashers (optical supplement to the attached magnet with blue light when deployed ), LED signal boards for stop requests or other information (on the sun visor and / or parcel shelf attached), often tinted windows in the rear and, depending on the situation, camouflage signs . In addition, they always have a radio communication system, siren , and application-specific equipment inside the car. However, the model and equipment can vary greatly from state police to state police.
Officer
The police officers usually appear in civilian clothes, although there are also civilian patrols that drive civilian police vehicles, but the police officers are in uniform. The personal security , trade officers of the police and the criminal police and many others always work civilly, but do not belong to the civil strife of the classic (protection) police, nor do surveillance forces .
Civil patrols are usually a group within a police station . The usually firmly assigned patrol partners, which consist of police officers from the protection police (in Hamburg there are also civil patrols of the water police), do shift work and work analogously (but with a time delay) to the service groups .
history
The civil strife model goes back to its introduction at the Braunschweig Police Department in 1962. At the beginning of the 1960s crime in Braunschweig increased rapidly due to serious crimes and assaults, so that in 1961 citizens demanded better protection from the Lower Saxony interior minister. The police headquarters set up a police unit that was unique in Germany and called itself the night patrol command . The associated police officers were on the road at night in vehicles as civil patrols, initially with private cars and without radios. City crime soon fell by around 25%. This way of fighting crime served as a model for the police in other federal states. In 1970, the extremely successful police unit in Braunschweig was renamed as a civilian patrol unit , and in 1994 as a civilian patrol service .
literature
- Volker Dowidat: Police in the rearview mirror. The history of the Braunschweig Police Department , Döring Druck, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-925268-23-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emergency vehicle: SB-XXX - BMW 530d - ProViDa vehicle - BOS vehicles - emergency vehicles and guards worldwide. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ International Emergency Responses [Mario40029]: 2x civil police Frankfurt. August 30, 2013. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Polizeiautos.de - civil vehicles in use. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Szabolc's wages: Police! Please follow! (Relapse). June 7, 2013, accessed May 18, 2017 .