Ordnungsbehörde

The regulatory authority ( called in Bavaria Safety Authority ) has, like the police, the task of any threat to the public safety and order ( security ). It is therefore also referred to as an administrative police or police in the material sense.

States with separation system

After the Second World War was part of the " Entpolizeilichung " in most German federal states ( Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine -Westphalia, Rhineland -Palatinate, Saxony -Anhalt, Schleswig -Holstein, Thuringia ) transfer the security, ie the actual, tangible police task of general management. The police are there since only responsible for the security of urgent cases. Entrusted with the duties of managing police authorities are also referred to no more than police authorities, but mainly as a regulatory agency.

In North Rhine -Westphalia, where the " separation principle " has been implemented most consistently, there are two different authorization basics and content differ slightly from each other. These can be found by the Police Act of North Rhine -Westphalia ( NRW Police Act ) on the one hand and the regulatory authorities Act ( OBG NRW) on the other.

Tasks of regulatory authorities

The responsibilities of the regulatory agencies are very different in the provinces with separation system. Most tasks take the local planning authority, the communities, the tasks of the district planning authority, the counties and the cities of true. Since it is in security to a state task ( police law lies at national level ), it is transferred to municipalities as an order issue or as a compulsory task to fulfill after transfer.

Depending on the state are the regulatory authorities assigned by legislative or other administrative police tasks ( for example, the registration law, immigration law, trade, the construction, and the water law, the plagues, diseases and body right, the food, waste, soil protection and pollution control laws ). Another major task lies in the investigation, prosecution and punishment of offenses. In some cases they are also responsible for the investigation of offenses.

Organization

Many a security role are summarized as a general regulatory authority in the clerk's office of the municipality or the county. In addition, numerous technical authorities take administrative police duties as a so-called special regulatory authorities is true ( for example, the Department of Works, the Environment Department, State Forestry Administration and the Department of Immigration ).

The regulatory authorities are largely obligated to perform the obligations incumbent on them with their own personnel. Partial grab the regulatory authorities but also back to the prison police. In recent years, there is a tendency that the municipalities their regulatory agencies to expand to a city police enforcement related services. Uniform and vehicles partially differ only by the inscription.

Naming the police,

In Hesse, the regulatory agencies are also called the Order Police. The change of vehicle wraps were accompanied in some communities because of the historical burden of the term Order Police ( Nazi period ) of such large protests that they were partially reversed. Since 2007, in Hesse, the term municipal police, as is the case in Frankfurt am Main, are used. Also in NRW is thinking about renaming clerk's office in the city police.

States with unit system

The regulations of the federal states with " unit system " (Baden- Württemberg, Bremen, Saarland, Saxony ) of the regulations of the federal states with separation system can be distinguished in principle. The police authorities in the unit system includes all public administration, carry out the tasks of security.