Police organisation
Polizei Berlin
The police force of the Land of Berlin — one of sixteen Land forces that carry out general policing in Germany, each under its own Land government and police law.
At a glance
- Official name
- Polizei Berlin
- System
- Germany
- Level of government
- State
- Kind of body
- State police force
- Status
- Currently operating
- Official website
- https://www.berlin.de/polizei/ — confirmed against the organisation’s own pages on 13 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it is
Polizei Berlin is the police of a German city-state, which makes it simultaneously a Land force and the police of a single city. Its territorial Direktionen each carry responsibility for between 530,000 and 850,000 people. It is included here as one worked instance of the Land tier: what it does is not evidence of what the other fifteen forces do, because each recruits, trains and organises separately under its own law.
What it covers
The Land of Berlin.
Broad responsibilities
- General policing across the Land of Berlin, organised through territorial directorates
Elsewhere on this site
- How police careers are structured in Berlin
- Polizeihistorische Sammlung — the museum, archive or collection that holds this organisation’s history
- Who polices what — how Germany is structured, against other systems
Other organisations to compare
- Bundespolizei — Germany
Where this connects
Institutions: Municipal police.
Sources
Dienststellen — Polizei Berlin
Polizei Berlin (Land Berlin) · Institutional (self-description) · link verified 2026-09-13
SCOPE: the police of the Land of Berlin only. The force’s own site, read directly. Supports the official name "Polizei Berlin", that it is the police of the city-state of Berlin, and that its territorial Direktionen each carry responsibility for "530.000 bis 850.000 Menschen". Establishes NOTHING about the other fifteen Länder, each of which runs its own force under its own police law.
Ausbildung — Polizistin/Polizist werden (mittlerer Dienst)
Polizei Berlin (Germany) · Government publication · link verified 2026-09-06
Supports the mittlerer Dienst track for Berlin: a Vorbereitungsdienst of "2 ½ Jahre", entry on erweiterte Berufsbildungsreife or on Berufsbildungsreife plus a completed two-year vocational training and two years of work, and appointment as Polizeimeisterin or Polizeimeister in a Beamtenverhältnis auf Probe. Establishes nothing about the other fifteen Länder or the Bundespolizei, each of which recruits separately.