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Baden-Württemberg Police

Baden-Württemberg Police
Polizei Baden-Württemberg
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Patch of the Baden-Württemberg Police
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Logo of the Baden-Württemberg Police
Agency overview
Formed April 25., 1952
Employees 30,182
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction* State of  Baden-Württemberg, GER
Locator map Baden-Württemberg in Germany.svg
Location of Baden-Württemberg shown in Germany
Size 35.751,46 km²
Population 10,703,000
Governing body Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Constituting instrument Polizeigesetz (PolG)
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters Hahnemannstraße 1, Stuttgart
Police Officers 25.000
Civilians 7.000
Agency executive Gerhard Klotter, Landespolizeipräsident
Parent agency Ministry of the Interior Baden-Württemberg
Website
Polizei Baden-Württemberg
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

Baden-Württemberg Police is a state law-enforcement agency in Germany. It numbers approximately 25,000 police officers and 7,000 civilian employees.

The four regional police authorities (called Landespolizeidirektionen in BW) are headquartered in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Freiburg and Tübingen. There is also a separate police authority for the city of Stuttgart. Following a police reform in 2005, the regional police authorities are now part of the regional government authorities (Regierungspräsidium). The autobahn and river police stations were reorganized from separate authorities and integrated into the respective local police departments.

In 2007, the state government decided that the Baden-Württemberg Police will also change to blue uniforms and patrol vehicles. The uniform change-over will occur between 2009 and 2011 to minimise the cost of the conversion.

Citizens also participate in public safety. This commitment to civic action is seen, for example, in the Volunteer Police program, where approximately 1,200 citizens voluntarily assist their local police in 20 towns. These volunteers are specially trained, wear uniforms and are armed. Their main duty is crime prevention: conducting walking patrols to deter street crime, patrolling near schools and kindergartens and maintaining contact with potential victims of crime and juvenile delinquents.

The Landeskriminalamt (State Investigation Bureau) was founded in 1952, is situated in Stuttgart and employs 520 officers and 430 civilian staff. Its missions are: witness protection, state security, SWAT (Spezialeinsatzkommando) team operations, undercover investigations, statistics, monitoring the development of crime, crime prevention, criminal investigations analysis, exchange of information with foreign countries and forensic science.

The Police Support Group HQ (Bereitschaftspolizeipräsidium) in Göppingen is the recruiting and training agency for the BW police and controls five rapid reaction battalions (Bereitschaftspolizeidirektionen) (BPD), the SWAT team and the state police band. The BPDs are situated in Bruchsal, Göppingen, Biberach, Lahr and Böblingen and have approximately 4,000 officers as the state’s mobile police reserve and school training staff.


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