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] 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)