Traffic paddle

The Winkerkelle (also: stop trowel, stop pin, police detention staff, Haltekelle, colloquially Polizeikelle ) is a Verkehrsleitgerät, which is used among others by the police, the customs, the THW, the military police and the fire brigade and part of school crossing the road.

In addition, the guide hand character can pass with them.

It is a disc with a rod as a handle which is usually provided on one side with a red and at the other side with a green circle. In the center of each circle there is a lamp in the corresponding color, which can be operated via a switch on the handle. For better visibility at night, the circuits are usually designed retroreflective. The Winker Kellen sometimes wear additional unique requests or instructions such as STOP or STOP mode and the name of the organization, such as the police, customs (authority) or fire department.

But there are also simpler, each fastened a red and green cat's eye on a wooden stick.

Legal situation in use in Germany

Within the meaning of § 24 of the Road Traffic Act is, inter alia, in contravention of § 36 para 1 to 4 Highway Code a character or a transfer or contrary to section 5 sentence 4 a stop command or instruction of a police officer does not follow either intentionally or negligently.

Decision Bavarian Supreme Regional Court of 22 November 1974 ( 5 St 627/74 OWi ): "§ 36 section 1 sentence 1, paragraph 5 Highway Code A road users, which is a holding bid, not him by a police officer in plain clothes from a as. cars police car indicated as such is given out with a trowel stop, assuming unobserved can, if it were the joke of a trespasser, not readily negligence. "