Lower Saxony State Police
The Lower Saxony State Police is the police of the German state of Lower Saxony. It has around 24,000 employees, including around 19,500 police officers. The Lower Saxony police are led by the State Police Headquarters (LPP) as a department of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport.
History
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The German police force in what is now the state of Lower Saxony was rebuilt by the British forces in 1945 after the end of the Second World War. It initially had a municipal structure based on the British model. This meant that the police were deprived of many of their previous administrative tasks. This “depolicing” affected, among other things: the previous registration police, the theater police, the veterinary police and the fire police. In addition to male applicants, women were now also hired into the police force for the first time.[1]
In 1946 the state of Lower Saxony was created. he Lower Saxony State Police was founded on April 1, 1951, when the Lower Saxony Police Law on Public Safety and Order (SOG) came into force.The police law passed by the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1951, on the other hand, created a unified state police under central leadership by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior.
Organization
[edit]The six regional police departments of Hanover, Braunschweig, Göttingen, Osnabrück, Oldenburg and Lüneburg are subordinate to the state police headquarters. There are a total of 31 police stations subordinate to the police departments, to which the "Central Criminal Investigation Service" and the "Operations Directorate" are attached.
Personal and equipement
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Policademy Lower Saxony (PA) in Nienburg/Weser is the state training center for police officers.[2]
The Lower Saxony police is equipped with variety of patrol vehicles. The Bereitschaftspolizei use Mercedes Benz vans and operates Wasserwerfer 10000 water cannons. Officers carry Heckler & Koch SFP9 firearms[3] as well as additional tools equipment such as handcuffs, pepperspray, a flashlight and a tonfa.
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.mi.niedersachsen.de/startseite/themen/innere_sicherheit/polizei_niedersachsen/allgemeines_uber_die_polizei/die-geschichte-der-niedersaechsischen-polizei-60369.html
- ^ "POL-AK NI: Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen verabschiedet über 400 neue Polizeikommissarinnen und -kommissare / Erstmalige Teilnahme einer Bremer Studiengruppe an der Abschlussfeier des Bachelor-Studienjahrgangs". presseportal.de (in German). 2024-09-30. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
- ^ "Neue Polizeiwaffen: Umstellung zur Hälfte abgeschlossen". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2024-11-05.