Kantonspolizei Zürich
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Kantonspolizei Zürich Landjäger-Corps des Kantons Zürich (1804 AD) Canton of Zürich, Switzerland |
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| Common name | Kantonspolizei Zürich |
| Abbreviation | kapo züri (inofficial and of Swiss German origin) |
Flag of the city and canton of Zürich
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1804 |
| Employees | about 3,800 full time jobs, 2,247 police officers and about 1,500 civilians (2015) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Kanton Zürich, CH |
| Size | 1,729 square kilometres (668 sq mi) |
| Population | 31 December 2015) |
| Legal jurisdiction | Government of the canton of Zürich |
| Governing body | Direktion der Justiz und des Innern |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Kasernenstrasse 29, CH-8004 Zürich |
| Agency executive | Thomas Würgler, Kommandant |
| Parent agency | Kriminal-, Sicherheits-, Verkehrspolizei; Regionalpolizei; Flughafenpolizei Zürich; Kriminalmuseum; Verkehrsleitzentrale; Seepolizei |
| Facilities | |
| Stations | about 60 as of 2015 |
| Police cars | unknown |
| Police boats | 2 (assumed, at least one speedboat, see image) |
| Helicopters | 1 |
| Horses | probably no more |
| Dogs | unknown |
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| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
Kantonspolizei Zürich, literally meaning "Cantonal police Zürich", is the German language term, and officially name of the police corps of the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The former Landjäger-Corps des Kantons Zürich in 1804 AD, is a governmental subdivision under the guidance of the Government of the canton of Zürich, and an executive authority of Direktion der Justiz und des Innern, the justice and internal matters department of the Canton of Zürich.
Established in 1804 AD as Landjäger-Corps des Kantons Zürich, and based in the city of Zürich, the cantonal police is responsible among the regional and local police stations of the municipalities in the canton of Zürich, and namely the Stadtpolizei Zürich, for cantonal relevated purpose as part of the law enforcement in Switzerland.
Among others, namely the law enforcement protection of the Zürich Airport, Further duties include the support of its municipal police stations, road patrol and conrol, criminal investigation, water police on Zürichsee, and so on.
As well as in the widest sense anti-terror purpose, so at the Zürich Airport, the suppressing of potentially demonstrations and riots in the widest sense, among a few others and the most popular, on occasion of the so-called Opernhauskrawalle youth protest on 30/31 May 1980 at the Sechseläutenplatz square in Zürich, documented in the 2000 Swiss documentary film Züri brännt, and twelve yours ago the so-called Globuskrawalle, named after the former Globus building situated at the Bahnhofbrücke Zürich.
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