Kantonspolizei Zürich

Kantonspolizei Zürich
Landjäger-Corps des Kantons Zürich (1804 AD)
Canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Common name Kantonspolizei Zürich
Abbreviation kapo züri (inofficial and of Swiss German origin)

Flag of the city and canton of Zürich
Agency overview
Formed 1804[1]
Employees about 3,800 full time jobs,[2] 2,247 police officers (2015)[3]
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 2014)
Legal jurisdiction Government of the canton of Zürich
Governing body Direktion der Justiz und des Innern
General nature
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[4][5]
Horses probably no more
Dogs unknown
Website
www.kapo.zh.ch (German)
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.

Purposes of the police corps

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, and for the support of its municipal police stations, road patrol and conrol, criminal investigation, water police on Zürichsee, and so on.[6]

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,[7] documented in the 2000 Swiss documentary film Züri brännt,[8] and twelve yours ago the so-called Globuskrawalle, named after the former Globus building situated at the Bahnhofbrücke Zürich.[9]

In Switzerland, Kantonspolizei Zürich is the largest police troop, by personal and finances,[1] compromising as of January 2015 of 2,247 police officers,[3] respectively about 3,800 full time jobs in all, including about 100 at the Zürich Airport, and having on 15 January 2015 the highest personal staff ever.[2] The police also provides the ePolice internet service,[10] houses a museum named Kriminalmuseum that was established in 1901,[11] and a program to exchange of experiences with international police corps.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Zahlen & Fakten" (in German). Kantonspolizei Zürich. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  2. 1 2 "Historischer Erfolg für die Kantonspolizei" (in German). Tages-Anzeiger. 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  3. 1 2 "Kantonspolizei Zürich erreicht Sollbestand" (in German). Government of the canton of Zürich. 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  4. ↑ "Kantonspolizei Zürich stellt neuen Helikopter vor" (in German). Kantonspolizei Zürich. 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  5. ↑ "Ein neuer Helikopter für die Kantonspolizei" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  6. ↑ "Über uns" (in German). Kantonspolizei Zürich. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  7. ↑ "Diskussion zu den Zürcher Jugendunruhen ("CH-Magazin" vom 15.7.1980)" (in German). SRF Kultur. 1980-07-15. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  8. ↑ Franz Kasperski (2015-01-16). "Der heisse Sommer 1980: "Züri brännt"" (in German). SRF Kultur. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  9. ↑ Marco Tackenberg (2012-03-24). "Jugendunruhen" (in German). HDS. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  10. ↑ "ePolice" (in German). Kantonspolizei Zürich. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  11. ↑ "Kriminalmuseum" (in German). Kantonspolizei Zürich. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  12. ↑ "Nigerianische Polizisten in Zürich" (in German). 10vor10. 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2015-01-17.

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