page_title: Bremen Police
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bremen Police / History
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Der feierliche Stapellauf des größten Ozeandampfers "Bremen" fand unter Anwesenheit des Reichspräsidenten von Hindenburg in Bremen statt. Die riesigen Ankerketten am Rumpf der "Bremen", welche das Schiff nach dem Stapellauf festhalten.
context_page_description: The Bremen State Police is the state police force of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. It employs circa 2,500 officers. The agency is headed by police chief Lutz Müller; the political head is the Senator for the Interior Ulrich Mäurer.
  The Bremen Police consists of three main bureaus: the central police directorate for personnel, education and logistics; the bureau of operations, comprising three patrol divisions Schutzpolizei, the riot police division readiness police, the traffic police division, and the water police division; and the detectives bureau.
context_section_description: The Bremen Police was under the command of a police-commission of the Senat of Bremen headed by after major Karl Deichmann (MSPD) (1919–1920), after World War I. Later policing was headed by Senator Albert von Spreckelsen (DVP) (1920–1928, 1931–1933) and Senator Deichmann (1928–1931) again. Up from 1919 the office of a president of the police was installed and till 1933 the conservative Leopold Petri hold this position.
  In Nazi Germany, policing in Bremen was headed by SS or NSDAP members, but the commander of police was still the mayor of Bremen. The police consisted of a small Schutzpolizei (regular police), a large number of so-called "Luftschutzpolizei" (Air Raid Precautions police), a city corps and about 700 plant protection police officers.
  The Bremen Police was formed after World War II as the law enforcement agency for the state of Bremen. In 1947, a state criminal investigation office (Landeskriminalamt, LKA) was founded, which closely worked alongside the criminal police of the British element of the Control Commission for Germany and later with the related office in Lower Saxony. In 1974, the Landeskriminalamt was made an independent agency and in 2000, it was once again made part of the state police criminal investigation office.
  A remarkable date of Bremen police history after WWII was May 6, 1980. On this day the ceremonial oath of the Bundeswehr for recruits took place in Bremen Weserstadion. It was the first vow since the existence of the Bundeswehr and a major public event outside the barracks. Protests by various groups resulted in massive violent riots that culminated in the biggest street riots in the history of the city of Bremen. 257 police officers  and more than 500 people involved in the protests were wounded.
  In 2014 the political head of Bremen State Police Ulrich Mäurer (SPD) started an initiative to charge German Football Association (DFB) for the extra coasts of the massive police present at so called "high-risc-matches" (Hochriskospiele), which was paid until than by public money from taxes. Deutsche Fußball-Liga (DFL) denied this and it went to court.
  The traditional police headquarters is the Polizeihaus Am Wall in the city centre, which had housed the Bremen police from 1908 until 1999. Today, the inner-city police office is housed there whilst the police headquarters is now in Bremen-Vahr. Riot police and the police academy is based in the Hindenburg-barracks in Bremen-Neustadt.
caption: Bremen Police Officer at the anchor cable at the launching of steamboat SS Bremen, 1928
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