Talk:Law enforcement in Germany

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The translations should be also in because the statet police types have certain names in german

Bereitschaftspolizei Wasserpolizei German Federal Police or Bundesgrenzschutz --Stone 08:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Category:Law enforcement agencies of Germany is also worth linking to get all the things mentioned!--Stone 08:47, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Worthwhile additions?

"The public prosecutor's office The Staatsanwaltschaft (public prosecutor’s office) is responsible for reviewing police investigations and handling criminal prosecutions. [edit] Violations of human rights

Despite isolated reports of abuses of police detainees, Germany's police generally respect individual human rights. For further information, see: Human rights in Germany"

Are these worth including? They seem suggestive (especially the latter) of some sort of dispute, but there's so little content i can't make heads nor tails of it. Either they need to be fleshed out, i feel, or deleted. Archtemplar 06:21, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

It seems that the "Human Rights" section is unnecessary, until there are some incidences of Human Rights abuses whihc can be added and verified, or maybe a report on Human rights in Germany is published. Until there is something worth mentioning which comes from 3rd party news sources. -Toon⁰⁵ 14:05, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I took it out, now that it's been added with clearly POV and unencyclopedic words. We need to find more reliable informations if we wish to really start that section again. 石川 (talk) 07:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Good for you. That section really did not serve a great purpose. Robbie69 (talk) 14:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Federal Police

It is not quite accurate to state that the "paramilitary border patrol" was renamed "Federal Police", because a bit before that, the railway police, which in the course of privatization of the railway system could not be operated anymore by the Deutsche Bahn AG (not being a government institution anymore, albeit still largely government owned) was integrated into the Border Patrol. As such, the agency was far from paramilitary in many parts already and the renaming was not the least a consequence of that integration. --OliverH 18:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm somewhat doubtful that the Bundespolizei actively participates in acquiring intelligence. To my knowledge, the police forces are prohibited by law from doing that (safe, of course, for criminal intelligence, I suppose; the borders are blurred); they do, however, cooperate closely with the federal and state-level intelligence agencies, such as the Verfassungsschutz (on the federal as well as the state level), the Bundesnachrichtendienst and others. I reckon there was a somewhat heated debate whether to barriers between police service and intelligence agencies should fall. This needs clarifying, I think.

By the way, the paramilitary notion (combatant status) of the Bundesgrenzschutz was abolished in 1994.

Cheers, Something Wicked 23:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC)