page_title: Hamburg Police
section_title: Rank structure
hierarchical_section_title: Hamburg Police / Organisation / Rank structure
caption_attribution_description: Hamburger Polizeibeamte bei einer FestnahmeHamburg 28. Mai 2007
context_page_description: The Hamburg Police is the German Landespolizei force for the city-state of Hamburg. Law enforcement in Germany is divided between federal and state agencies. A precursor to the agency, the Polizey-Behörde, has existed since 1814.
  The State Minister for the Interior oversees the Hamburg Police, which consists of aviation, water, road and port patrols, and crime investigation. The city of Hamburg is served by police stations of the Uniformed Police. Head of police is Polizeipräsident Ralf Martin Meyer. In 2008 Hamburg Police had 500,335 deployments.
context_section_description: Police ranks are shown with epaulettes, the service group (ranking of a Beamter [rough: civil clerk]) is also indicated through the hatband of the peaked cap. The hatband of the senior service is gold, upper service is silver, and the intermediate service is blue. The uniformed police and the Water Police of the Hamburg Police has the following rank structure, in descending order:
  Senior service (German: Höherer Dienst)
  Upper service (Gehobener Dienst)
  Intermediate service (Mittlerer Dienst)
caption: An arrest during the demonstration at the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) 2007.
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