Police organisation
Landespolizei
Liechtenstein’s single police force, whose published task list runs from criminal investigation and traffic supervision to searching for missing persons and helping in disasters.
At a glance
- Official name
- Landespolizei
- Commonly rendered in English as
- National Police — a rendering in common use, not the organisation’s own name.
- System
- Liechtenstein
- Level of government
- National
- Kind of body
- National police force
- Status
- Currently operating
- Official website
- https://www.landespolizei.li/ — confirmed against the organisation’s own pages on 17 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 17 September 2026
What it is
The Landespolizei states that its tasks include ensuring public safety and order, conducting investigations under the Code of Criminal Procedure, supervising traffic on public roads, supporting accident and crime prevention, searching for missing persons, and providing help in accidents and disasters. It publishes an internal division into a Polizeikommando carrying central functions and a Sicherheits- und Verkehrspolizei carrying patrol and traffic work. In a state of Liechtenstein’s size the whole of policing is one force with named internal units, which makes the published task list unusually complete.
What it covers
The whole territory of the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Broad responsibilities
- Public safety and order
- Criminal investigation under the Code of Criminal Procedure
- Traffic supervision on public roads
- Accident and crime prevention
- Searching for missing persons
- Assistance in accidents and disasters
Who it answers to
The page read does not name the force’s supervising ministry, and none is claimed here.
Elsewhere on this site
- Who polices what — how Liechtenstein is structured, against other systems
Where this connects
Roles: Patrol officer.
Institutions: National police.
Sources
Organisation — Landespolizei Liechtenstein
Landespolizei Fürstentum Liechtenstein · Institutional (self-description) · link verified 2026-09-17
SCOPE: the Liechtenstein Landespolizei only. The force's own organisation page in German, read directly. Supports the official German name and the force's own list of tasks: ensuring public safety and order, conducting investigations under the Code of Criminal Procedure, supervising traffic on public roads, supporting accident and crime prevention, searching for missing persons, and providing help in accidents and disasters. It also supports the internal division into Polizeikommando, Sicherheits- und Verkehrspolizei and the further units the page names.