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Law enforcement in Germany is constitutionally vested solely with the states, which is one of the main features of the German political system. Policing has always been a responsibility of the German states even after 1871 when the country was unified .
Polizei beim Deutschen Bundestag (Polizei DBT): Federal Parliament Police, responsible for the protection of the premises of the Bundestag in Berlin. In order to uphold the independence of the legislative power from the executive, this police force is responsible, not to the Minister of the Interior, but to the President of the Bundestag.
The Federal Criminal Police Office was established in 1951, and Wiesbaden, in the State of Hesse, was designated as its seat. The German police in general is – by definition of the German constitution – organized at the level of the states of the federation (e.g. North Rhine-Westphalia Police, Bavarian State Police, Berlin Police).
On the night of 13 September 2015 Germany unilaterally reintroduced border controls, under emergency provisions of the Schengen Agreement, due to the 2015 European migrant crisis overwhelming Germany's available resources, law enforcement and otherwise.
The State Criminal Police Office, or Landeskriminalamt (German: [ˈlandəskʁimiˌnaːlʔamt] ⓘ (LKA) pronounced [ɛlkaːʔˈaː] ⓘ) in German, is an independent law enforcement agency in all 16 German states that is directly subordinate to the state's ministry of the interior.
The Police of Germany may refer to one of a number of German law enforcement agencies. For an overview look at:
In Germany, the police have an obligation to investigate every single crime reported and subsequently send all investigations to the Staatsanwaltschaft. The public prosecutor, the Staatsanwalt (German: [ʃtaːt͡sʔanˌvalt] ⓘ, state attorney), reviews the findings of the police and decides whether to indict the accused or halt the proceedings.
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