page_title: Law enforcement by country
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Law enforcement by country / List by country / Germany
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kontrolle eines ukrainischen Reisebusses durch die deutsche Bundespolizei am Rastplatz Lipperts der Bundesautobahn 9, Fahrtrichtung Norden. English: Stop and search of a ukrainian long-distance bus of the german Federal Police at the resting place Lipperts of the german motorway 9, northern driving direction.
context_page_description: In many countries, particularly those with a federal system of government, there may be several law enforcement agencies, police or police-like organizations, each serving different levels of government and enforcing different subsets of the applicable law.
context_section_description: Germany is a federal republic of sixteen States (Land). Each one of those States has its own police force called Landespolizei (State Police), that is providing the basic law enforcement and crime fighting. Each Landespolizei is supervised by the respective State Minister (or, in the City States of  Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin, the Senator) of Internal Affairs.
  The Federal authorities have law enforcement agencies as well:
  the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, "Federal Crime (or Criminology) Office") which is only responsible for cases which are exceeding the borders of a single State, or for cases of international dimension.
  the uniformed Bundespolizei (BPOL, in casual language also BuPo; "Federal Police"). Until 2005, the BPOL was called Bundesgrenzschutz ("Federal Border Protection"), but after expanded competences (e.g. for the railways) in the 1990s and the abolition of border controls in the European Union, its name was changed to emphasize the law enforcement nature of the corps in an international context.
  Depending on the state´s laws, the German cities also provide policing agencies like Stadtpolizei (Municipal Police) or Ordnungsamt (local bylaw agency).
caption: Members of the German Federal Police stop a bus to search it, in an effort to combat drug trafficking.
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