Polizeipräsidium Wuppertal The Polizeipräsidium Wuppertal (Police Headquarters of Wuppertal) is a part of the

North Rhine-Westphalia Police The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) State Police Force is the largest of the sixteen German state police forces with 50,000 personnel. Organisation Constabularies NRW has 47 police constabularies. The 18 urban constabularies are headed by a Pres ...

. The jurisdiction spans the cities of

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

, Remscheid and

Solingen Solingen (; li, Solich) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located some 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and, with a 2009 population of 161,366, ...

. Head of authority is Leitender Polizeidirektor Dietmar Henning.

Organization

The Police headquarters has four subordinate departments: * ''Direktion Gefahrenabwehr'' (uniformed police missions) with 9 police stations in Wuppertal, Remscheid and Solingen, Bereitschaftspolizei and the police dog unit * ''Direktion Kriminalität'' (investigation department) * ''Direktion Verkehr'' (traffic police department) * ''Direktion Zentrale Aufgaben'' (central services department)

Building

It was built between 1937 and 1939 and used by the local police and the

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since August 1939. After

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the

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used the building as headquarters, and later in 1945 it was also used by the Stadtrat (

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), because the

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in Wuppertal-Barmen was destroyed by area bombing in May 1943.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Polizeiprasidium Wuppertal Wuppertal Law enforcement in Germany