Hamburg Police

Hamburg Police Polizei Hamburg
Common name	Hamburger Polizei
Logo of the Hamburg Police
Agency overview
Formed	1814
Preceding agencies	Night watch Port patrol
Employees	9,748
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Location of Hamburg shown in Germany
Size	755 km2
Population	1,769,117
Governing body	Government of Hamburg
Constituting instruments	Gesetz zum Schutz der öffentlichen Sicherheit und Ordnung (SOG) (Law of the protection of security and order) Strafprozeßordnung (StPO) (Code of criminal procedure)
General nature	Law enforcement Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Bruno-Georges-Platz 1 22297 Hamburg
Senator für Inneres responsible	Andy Grote
Agency executive	Ralf Martin Meyer, Polizeipräsident
Child agency	List Führungs-und Lagedienst (Leading office) Zentraldirektion (Central office) Landeskriminalamt (State criminal police office) Wasserschutzpolizei (Water police) Verkehrsdirektion Landesbereitschaftspolizei (State stand-by police) Zentrales Personalmanagement (Central personnel management) Verwaltung und Technik (Administration and technical)
Units	List Hundestaffel (Dogs group) Spezialeinsatzkommando (Special Weapons and Tactics Unit) Mobiles Einsatzkommando (Mobile Surveillance Units)
College and schools	List Landespolizeischule (State police school) Wasserschutzpolizeischule (School for the water police) Hochschule der Polizei (Police college)
Facilities
Stations	List Station at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof Wasserschutzpolizeikommissariat (WSPK)- Station Lauenburg WSPK 1 (Waltershofer Damm) WSPK 2 (Roßdamm) WSPK 3 (Am Überwinterungshafen) WSP station 4 Cuxhaven Polizeikommissariat (PK) 11 (Steindamm) PK 14 (Caffamacherreihe) PK 15 Davidwache PK 16 (Lerchenstraße) PK 17 (Sedanstraße) PK 21 (Mörkenstraße) PK 23 (Troplowitzstraße) PK 24 (Garstedter Weg) PK 25 (Notkestraße) PK 26 (Blomkamp) PK 27 (Koppelstraße) PK 31 (Oberaltenallee) PK 33 (Wiesendamm) PK 34 (Wördenmoorweg) PK 35 (Wentzelplatz) PK 36 (Ellernreihe) PK 37 (Am Alten Posthaus) PK 38 (Scharbeutzer Straße) PK 41 (Sievekingdamm) PK 42 (Möllner Landstraße) PK 43 (Ludwig-Rosenberg-Ring) PK 44 (Georg-Wilhelm-Straße) PK 46 (Lauterbachstraße) PK 47 (Neugrabener Markt)
Automobiles and trucks	List 236 Patrol cars 114 Personnel carriers and buses 493 Civilian cars 44 Motorbikes 27 utility vehicles 136 special vehicles
Boats	List 2 Coast patrol boats 8 Port patrol boats 1 Alster river patrol boat 6 SAR boats 6 Utility boats 14 Disaster control boats 4 Inflatable boats
Helicopters	2 Eurocopter EC 135
Animals	List Dogs
Notables Person Ernst Uhrlau, Head of police (1996–98) Award Polizeistern
Website
http://polizei.hamburg.de
Footnotes
Police related data (number of officers, vehicles etc.) as of 31 December 2008

The Hamburg Police (German: Hamburger Polizei or Polizei Hamburg) is the German Landespolizei force for the city-state of Hamburg. Law enforcement in Germany is divided between federal and state (Land) agencies. A precursor to the agency, the Polizey-Behörde, has existed since 1814.

The State Minister for the Interior (German: Senator für Inneres) oversees the Hamburg Police, which consists of aviation, water, road and port patrols, and crime investigation. The city of Hamburg is served by police stations (German: Polizeikommissariate) of the Uniformed Police (German: Schutzpolizei). Head of police is Polizeipräsident Ralf Martin Meyer. In 2008 Hamburg Police had 500,335 deployments.

Before the police force was established, there was a night watch (German: Wochenwärter, lit. week wardens) and a port patrol. The night watch was a professional force whose duties included calling the hours at night and closing the city gates. In 1671, the watch was reorganised along the lines of the Schutterij in Amsterdam, and in 1770, 284 men operated in 64 districts. In 1787, a force patrolling the port (the German: Hafenpatrouille) was established, though this was merged with the police in 1875.

Before the French occupation of Hamburg (1806–1814) the Wedde was the government agency collecting fines, and the Prätur an agency — more like a court — to arbitrate, e.g. in cases of bankruptcy, or differences on rental fees. In 1814, the government of Hamburg (Rat) established a standardised police agency (Polizey-Behörde). The former brought tasks from the Wedde and Prätur into the new police. The night watch and the police coexisted until 1876, when the watch was dissolved.