List of law enforcement agencies in Germany

Law enforcement in Germany is conducted by federal, state and municipal law enforcement agencies.

Federal

• Bundeskriminalamt (BKA): Federal Criminal Office
  • Mobiles Einsatzkommando (MEK): Special Unit for Surveillance and Detention
• Bundespolizei (BPOL): Federal Police
  • Bereitschaftspolizei (BePo): Riot Police Branch of Federal Police
    • Beweissicherungs- und Festnahmeeinheit plus (BFE+): Federal Police Anti-Terror Unit
    • Beweissicherungs- und Festnahmeeinheit (BFE): Federal Police Special Detention Unit
  • Bundespolizei-Fliegerstaffel: Federal Police Air Group
  • GSG-9 der Bundespolizei (GSG-9): Federal Police Special Forces Group
  • Mobile Fahndungseinheit (MFE): Special Unit for Covered (Individual and Technical) Surveillance
• Bundeszollverwaltung: Federal Customs Service
  • Zollkriminalamt (ZKA): Customs Investigation Bureau
    • Zentrale Unterstützungsgruppe Zoll (ZUZ): Customs SWAT Unit
• Feldjägertruppe: Military Police of the Federal Defense Force
• Polizei beim Deutschen Bundestag (Polizei DBT): Federal Parliament Police, responsible for the protection of the premises of the Bundestag in Berlin. For reason of the independence of the legislative power from the executive, there exists a separate body who answers not to the Minister of the Interior, but to the President of the Bundestag

State

The Police Structure of the States

• Landespolizei: State Police
  • Schutzpolizei (SchuPo): Uniformed Branch of State Police
  • Landeskriminalamt (LKA): State Criminal Office
  • Kriminalpolizei (KriPo): Detective Branch of State Police
    • Mobiles Einsatzkommando (MEK): Special Unit for Surveillance and Detention
  • Bereitschaftspolizei (BePo): Riot Police Branch of State Police
    • Beweissicherungs- und Festnahmeeinheit (BFE): State Police Special Detention Unit
  • Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK): SWAT unit of State Police
  • Autobahnpolizei: Highway Patrol of State Police
  • Wasserschutzpolizei (WSP): River Branch of State Police
  • Wachpolizei (WaPol): Branch of State Police for the security of state government buildings or diplomatic facilities, only in the states of Berlin and Hesse
• Justiz: Penitentiary Police

Auxiliary Police Forces of State Police

• Freiwilliger Polizeidienst: Auxiliary police force, only in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse
• Sicherheitswacht: Auxiliary police force, only in the states of Bavaria and Saxony

State Police Forces

• Baden-Württemberg Police
• Bavarian State Police
• Berlin Police
• Brandenburg Police
• Bremen Police
• Hamburg Police
• Hesse State Police
• Lower Saxony Police
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Police
• North Rhine-Westphalia Police
• Rheinland-Pfalz State Police
• Saarland Police
• Saxony Police
• Saxony-Anhalt Police
• Schleswig-Holstein Police
• Thuringia Police

Municipalities

• Kommunaler Ordnungsdienst (KOD): Municipal law enforcement, different regulations by state and local laws
• Kommunalpolizei or Stadtpolizei: Municipal police in cities of the state of Hesse
• Gemeindevollzugsdienst (GVD): Municipal police in the state of Baden-Württemberg
• Ordnungsamt (OA): Municipal police or municipal law enforcement, different regulations by state and local laws
• Polizeibehörde: municipal law enforcement, different regulations by state and local laws

See also

• Auxiliary Police
• Bundespolizei: Federal police force
• Freiwillige Polizei-Reserve, defunct auxiliary police service
• Freiwilliger Helfer der Grenztruppen: defunct auxiliary service in East Germany
• Freiwilliger Helfer der Volkspolizei: defunct auxiliary police force in East Germany
• Grenztruppen: defunct East German Border Troops
• Landespolizei: German state police forces
• Law enforcement in Germany
• List of law enforcement agencies
• Stadtpolizei: German municipal police forces
• Volkspolizei - defunct East German Police

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