List of law enforcement agencies in Germany
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Law enforcement in Germany
is conducted by federal, state and municipal law enforcement agencies.
are the state police forces:
Law enforcement in Germany
Law enforcement in Germany is constitutionally vested solely with the states, which is one of the main features of the German political system. Therefore, unlike France, Italy, the United States, Canada or many other countries, Germany has no federal police force comparable to the Italian...
is conducted by federal, state and municipal law enforcement agencies.
Federal
- Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution)
- Bundespolizei (Federal Police)
- BahnpolizeiBahnpolizeiBahnpolizei is the term in Germany, Austria and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland for the Railway police.-Germany:Bahnpolizei was the name of the former Railway police of West Germany and fell under the jurisdiction of the Deutsche Bundesbahn federal railway company...
(Railway Police) - GSG 9GSG 9The GSG 9 der Bundespolizei , is the elite counter-terrorism and special operations unit of the German Federal Police.-History and name:...
- Bahnpolizei
- KüstenwacheGerman Federal Coast GuardThe German Federal Coast Guard is a civilian law enforcement organisation whose primary missions are border protection, maritime environmental protection, shipping safety, fishery protection and customs enforcement...
(Coast Guard) - BundeskriminalamtFederal Criminal Police Office (Germany)The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany is a national investigative police agency in Germany and falls directly under the Federal Ministry of the Interior...
(Federal Criminal Police Office) - FeldjägerFeldjägerFor the German Military Police in WWII see: Feldjaegerkorps and FeldgendarmerieIn presence Feldjäger is the name of military police of the Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces. The term Feldjäger, literally meaning field huntsmen or field Jäger, has a long tradition and dates back to the mid-17th...
(Military Police) - ZollkriminalamtZollkriminalamtThe German Customs Investigation Bureau in Cologne and its investigation offices are federal agencies that fall under the German Finance Ministry...
(Customs Investigation Bureau)
State
The LandespolizeiLandespolizei
thumb|[[Germany|German]] police officer in [[Hamburg]]The Landespolizei are the main police forces of Germany. They are under the sole jurisdiction, funded and operated by the states of Germany.-History:...
are the state police forces:
- Baden-Württemberg PoliceBaden-Württemberg PoliceBaden-Württemberg Police numbers approx. 25,000 police officers and 7,000 civilian employees.The four regional police authorities are headquartered in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Freiburg and Tübingen. There is also a separate police authority for the city of Stuttgart...
- Bavarian State PoliceBavarian State PoliceThe Bavarian State Police has approximately 32,000 officers and roughly 5,600 civilian employees and is therefore one of the biggest police forces in Germany.-Organisation:The 10 regional police authorities in Bavaria are:...
- Berlin Police
- Brandenburg Police
- Bremen Police
- Hamburg PoliceHamburg PoliceThe Hamburg Police is the German Landespolizei force for the city-state of Hamburg. Law enforcement in Germany is divided between federal and state agencies...
- Hesse State PoliceHesse State PoliceThe Hesse State Police numbers approximately 15,500 police officers and 2,500 civilian employees.-Organisation:...
- Lower Saxony Police
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Police
- North Rhine-Westphalia PoliceNorth Rhine-Westphalia PoliceThe North Rhine-Westphalia Police Force is the biggest of the 16 German state police forces because almost a quarter of the German population lives in NRW. Roughly 50,000 officers police about 19 million people.-Constabularies:...
- Rheinland-Pfalz State PoliceRheinland-Pfalz State PoliceRhineland-Palatinate Police numbers approx. 9,000 police officers. The five regional police authorities are headquartered in Koblenz, Trier, Mainz, Kaiserslautern and Ludwigshafen ....
- Saarland PoliceSaarland PoliceThe Saarland Police is one of the smallest German Landespolizei forces with approx. 2,700 police officers. As in Hesse and Rheinland-Pfalz, the Saarland Police is abolishing the “green star” ranks meaning their new police officers start to work the road as Kommissars...
- Saxony Police
- Saxony-Anhalt Police
- Schleswig-Holstein Police
- Thuringia Police