Hamburg Police

Polizei Hamburg
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Common nameHamburger Polizei
Agency overview
Formed26 May 1814
Preceding agencies
  • Night watch
  • Port patrol
Employees11.000 (2021)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionHamburg
Location of Hamburg shown in Germany
Size755 km2
Population1,769,117
Governing bodyGovernment 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
Operational structure
Overseen byState Ministry of the Interior
HeadquartersBruno-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)[A]
  • Hochschule der Polizei (Police college)
Facilities
Stations
List[1]
  • 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
Helicopters2 Eurocopter EC 135[2]
Animals
List
Notables
Person
Award
  • Polizeistern
Website
http://polizei.hamburg.de
Police related data (number of officers, vehicles etc.) as of 31 December 2008[3]

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 Polizei-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.

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