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Dienst Speciale Interventies (Special Intervention Service) – Collection of joint, on-call or part-time basis SWAT teams recruiting from police, military police and army (but falling under civilian police command). The Service consists of four Units:
A Eurocopter EC-135 police helicopter of the Bavarian State Police. The Bavarian State Police (German: Bayerische Staatliche Polizei) is the state police force of the German state of Bavaria under the umbrella of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. It has approximately 33,500 armed officers and roughly 8,500 other civilian employees.
PSA officers participating in the exercise Black Griffin 2018. Polizeiliche Schutzaufgaben Ausland der Bundespolizei (PSA BPOL) ("Police Protection Tasks Abroad of the Federal Police", formerly known as ASSIK for Arbeitsstab Schutzaufgaben in Krisengebieten) is a specialized unit of the German Federal Police tasked with providing personal security for German diplomatic missions in conflict ...
Department 6 has special technical support units that assist other law enforcement agencies with technical or special know-how. This may occur if investigations become difficult e.g. scenes of fire, accidents (explosives, explosive devices) or computer crimes. The department also has a surveillance team and a target search unit.
SEK operators raid a hijacked ship during a public exhibition. In 1974, the first SEK unit was raised in police forces of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. [3]After West and East Germany were unified in 1990, some ex-officers of the Diensteinheit IX (DIX) in the Volkspolizei were merged into the SEKs after thorough political evaluation procedures, such as with SEK units in Mecklenburg ...
These functions have been transferred to civil state government departments (Einwohnermeldeamt—Resident registration office) in all states. The uniforms and vehicle colour schemes of the state police forces are different, but somewhat similar all over Germany, the state police forces are structured differently in each state as well.
MEK (Mobiles Einsatzkommando): Special Unit for Surveillance and Detention; Schutzpolizei (SchuPo): Uniformed Branch of State Police; SEK (Spezialeinsatzkommando): police tactical unit of State Police; Wachpolizei (WaPol): Branch of State Police for the security of state government buildings or diplomatic facilities, only in the states of ...
The Landeskriminalamt (State Investigation Bureau) is situated in Wiesbaden and employs 680 officers and civilian staff. Its missions are: witness protection, state security, coordination of SWAT (Spezialeinsatzkommando or SEK) team operations, undercover investigations, statistics, monitoring the development of crime, crime prevention, criminal investigations analysis, exchange of information ...