Volume #1, Issue #15

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FROM THE REPUBLIC OF GERMANY / State of Bavaria

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Hamburg Station – Picture Taken by Steve Keddell

Passau Station – Historical Photo Taken in 2016 – A New Station has taken its place Picture Taken by policestationpictures.com

Regensburg Station – Picture Taken by policestationpictures.com

  • Agency / Formed: State of Bavaria / June 26, 1946
  • Type / Category / Size: Police Department / State / Large
  • Address: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
  • Website: polizei.bayern.de  
  • Sworn Officers:  33,500
  • Jurisdiction Population: 13,000,260  
  • Jurisdiction Size: 70,550.19 Km Squared
  • Interesting Fact: Annual Budget – 3.6 Billion Euro or 3.91 U.S. Dollars ( July 2023 )
  • Interesting Fact: The 1946 formed Bavarian State Police Department was modeled after the New York City Police Department
  • Interesting Fact: Two Major Terrorist Activities Occurring in Bavaria (1) MAY 12, 1972 – The Red Army Terroir Group Bombed the Bavarian State Investigation Building, and (2) September 5, 1972 – The “Olympic Munich Massacre” by a Palestinian Terrorist Group
  • Interesting Fact: Pope Benedict XI’s father, Joseph Ratzinger, was a Bavarian Police Officer
  • Interesting Fact: In 2010 all German Police Forces were mandated to switch uniform colors from Green to Blue by 2018 to conform to the EU Standard police uniform color of Blue
  • Interesting Fact: The German name for police: “Bunespolizei” / The German slang word for the police: “Bull”
  • Interesting Fact: The Former West Germany and East Germany police forces merged in 1990 under the “Unification Treaty”

Call Box – Bavarian Regional Police Authorities

Call Box – Bavarian Police Orchestra

Motto: “Sound Virtuosic and Rousing”
  • Founded on November 12, 1956
  • Based in Munich
  • It is a Symphonic Wind Orchestra
  • Current Director: Johann Mosenbider
  • Consists of 45 Professional Musicians from over a dozen countries
  • On an average the Orchestra does around 50 performances a year
  • The Orchestra performs in many musical venues in Germany and Across Europe
  • Upcoming performance, if there is interest in attending > September 24, 2023 at 7:30pm, Saint Peter & Paul Catholic Church, Mittenwald, Germany, No Charge ( donation requested )

Orchestra Website – Music

Call Box – Bavarian Police Train with the US Army

Article Posted On US army.mil Website

In a large exercise with almost 400 participants, the Unterstützungskommando (USK) of the Middle Franconian police force, and police units from all of Northern Bavaria, conducted training May 17 at the U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Ansbach’s Oberdachstetten Training Area.

The USK forces are Bavarian police units that operate in high-risk and potentially violent environments such as protests at major soccer games and raids such as storming of buildings to search and arrest dangerous and possibly armed suspects. The USKs are also trained as first responders, and some are trained medics, which means inherent medical capability within the unit. USKs execute rapid response until SWAT teams arrive.

Read More – Bavarian Police Train with the US Army

Call Box – 2022 USA Department of State – Country Reports of Human Rights Practices

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, 39 Pages

REPORT

Call Box – National Criminal Justice Reference Service Article on the Bavarian State Police

NCJ Number 194893 Journal Law and Order, Volume: 50 Issue, March 2002

Authors: Jim Weiss; Michel Davis, Date Published 2002, The article focuses on Police Tactics

Bavaria is the largest German State, occupying an area slightly smaller than Montana. The Bavarian police are ahead of their counterparts in the other 15 States in police tactics instruction. Bavarian police will soon be adding 6 dynamic shooting exercises to their standard 12 stationary-firing range drills. In dynamic shooting the officer, the target, or both the officer and the target move during firearms or simulation scenario training. The special riot or readiness police are called Bereitschaftspolizei (BEPO). This is composed of young police trainees, instructors, specialists such as divers, helicopter pilots and riot control specialists, and specialized officers trained to arrest drug dealers and search for armed criminals. In BEPO, officers begin their careers at age 16 or 17, and train with the handguns and shoulder weapons used by their respective agencies. Each of the Federal States has its own BEPO organization and the weapons of choice often vary with the police of each of these States. The police and BEPO of one State can be called upon to assist the police of another State. Instead of training to face a known threat, the basic patrol officer trains to confront the unknown. Officers assigned to Munich, Bavaria’s capital city, have been training with Simunition and protective gear since 1999. This annual training consists of a simple scenario involving a staged domestic fight in a second floor apartment. Eight officers were killed in 2000 and all of the Federal States improved their training programs, but not every State uses Simunition training. SEK, the German equivalent of SWAT, typically encounters and trains for known situations, such as drug raids and hostage takers. Bavaria spends more funding for its police than any other Federal State.

Call Box – Highest Court of Bavaria – “Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof”

From the High Court’s Website: “Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof” – was established on Oct. 1st 1879 by King Ludwig II. as supreme instance of administrative jurisdiction in Bavaria. At this time it was the only legal entity for administrative litigation in Bavaria, that was institutionally separate from administration.

From the High Court’s Website – The Court:

The administrative jurisdiction forms the largest system of specialized courts in Germany. It is competent for all kinds of non-constitutional public law matters, unless the respective matter is explicitly assigned by statute to the fiscal or social courts. In the vast majority of cases, administrative courts grant judicial protection in disputes between a citizen and a public authority. Typical examples of actions brought before the general administrative courts are disputes arising from laws relating to public order and security, foreign nationals and asylum, construction, traffic, trade and industry, municipal revenue and municipal administrative organization, subsidies, access to public institutions and public welfare, education, protection of the environment, planning and civil service matters.
The administrative courts are an integral part of the German judiciary. They have no advisory functions and are strictly independent from any executive branch of the government. The present system of administrative jurisdiction is three-leveled:The High Administrative Court of Bavaria – “Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof” – was established on Oct. 1st 1879 by King Ludwig II. as supreme instance of administrative jurisdiction in Bavaria. At this time it was the only legal entity for administrative litigation in Bavaria, that was institutionally separate from administration.

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Call Box – Best Guide to One’s Legal Rights in Germany

‘HowToGermany’ Website for Expatriates > Best Site for reviewing “Ones Rights” in Germany

HowToGermany ( Once on Site, Click the Section Marked ‘Bureaucracy’ )

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