The Polizeipräsidium München (Munich Police Department) is part of the

Bavarian State Police The Bavarian Police () 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. Organization Th ...

. It consists of 7,100 officers and is located in

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, Germany. The headquarters was established on October 1, 1975, being reorganized from the city police (''Stadtpolizei München'').

Overview

Its jurisdiction spans over all of

(except exterritorial grounds), its

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and a small portion of

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(

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and Stockdorf, the latter being a part of

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). Hubertus Andrä has been the Police Commissioner since July 2013. The Police headquarters has seven subordinate operational bureaus. Three Regional Bureaus (Central, East, West) with a total of 25 police stations, that perform uniformed patrol duty and respond emergency calls. The Traffic Police Bureau is responsible for special traffic functions as speed checks and fatal accidents. Special Services such as the ''

Spezialeinsatzkommando ''Spezialeinsatzkommando'' (SEK, "Special Task Force") are police tactical units of each of the 16 German Landespolizei, state police forces that specialize in a quick response with SWAT unit tactics to emergencies. Along with the ''Mobiles Einsa ...

'' (

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) is covered by the Special Forces Bureau. Rapid Reaction Companies (Einsatzhundertschaften),

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(also responsible for confiscated firearms), the

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(Hundestaffel) and

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(Reiterstaffel) by the Central Services Bureau. The Investigation Bureau has 10 units (''Kriminalfachdezernate''), which are organised in offence oriented sections and squads. They prevent, pursue and clear up serious criminal offences.

Scandals

A number of incidents in the late 1990s ranging from

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at the

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to the fatal shooting of a bystander and drug trading within the police caused debate in parliament. The minister of the interior announced reform. In January 2013 a photograph of a 23-year-old woman badly beaten by police officers while tied made the press. Police president Wilhelm Schmidbauer sanctioned the actions of the officers, blamed the victim, and had her home raided. The state attorney took weeks to start investigating the officers but did not hesitate to prosecute the victim.

2019/2020 drug scandal

Nationwide attention Munich police gained in 2020 when it became known that several Munich police officers were customers of a drug dealer or drug deales by them selv. It is described as the "largest ..drug scandal at a police headquarters in Germany". The focus was on a drug dealer who set the investigation in motion after he testified as a key witness about his police officers' customers and reported on "police discounts" on cocaine. The public prosecutor's office conducted investigations against 37 police officers from the Munich police and brought eight charges.

Vehicles

The standard patrol car of Munich Police is the

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. Also in use are the

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and

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. Rapid Reaction Companies and the Dog Squad use

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T4/T5. Special Services and Investigation Units use several unmarked vehicles.

Notable persons

Wilhelm Frick Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a German prominent politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and convicted war criminal who served as Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor ...

(1877–1946), Nazi official, executed for war crimes *

Philipp Bouhler Philipp Bouhler (11 September 1899 – 19 May 1945) was a German senior Nazi Party functionary who was both a (National Leader) and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was also the SS official responsible for the euthana ...

(Aug.–Oct. 1934 Police President) SS officer and NSDAP official

References

External links

* Law enforcement in Germany Government of Munich 1975 establishments in West Germany Government agencies established in 1975 {{Munich-stub