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The German legal system is a civil law mostly based on a comprehensive compendium of statutes, as compared to the common law systems. The Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court, being located in the city of Karlsruhe) is the German supreme court responsible for constitutional matters, with power of judicial review .
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).
Its duties include; border surveillance, monitoring installations belonging to German Rail, helping in serious accidents and disasters in Germany and abroad, searching for missing persons, searching for criminals on the run, supporting the police forces of the federal states, providing transportation for persons whose security is endangered ...
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 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.
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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The Police of Germany may refer to one of a number of German law enforcement agencies. For an overview look at: