Polizeiliche Sicherheitsgewährleistung im Mehrebenensystem

Abstract

Abstract In the Federal Republic of Germany and, even more so in the European Union, the term „police“ does not connote a single entity but rather a complex multilevel structure, in which decentralised police forces have to cooperate with one another, have to be coordinated on a central level and have to be supplemented by some police functions that have been shifted from the decentralised to the central level altogether. Working structures of – both horizontal and vertical – police cooperation are the key to successful policing in a federal or supranational system. The Federal Republic of Germany, in which police powers reside primarily with the Lander, has developed techniques of police cooperation that have worked successfully for a long time and can serve as an example of how problems of trans-border police cooperation in a multilevel system can be solved. More recently, in Europe, too, both within and outside of the legal framework of the European Union (EU), structures of multilevel police cooperati...