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Bremen Police Polizei Bremen
Agency overview
Formed	January 1, 1947
Employees	2,550
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Bremen, [[| Germany]]
Location of Bremen shown in Germany
Size	419.38 km²
Governing body	Bürgerschaft of Bremen
Constituting instrument	Polizeigesetz (PolG)
General nature	Civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Bremen
Website
Polizei Bremen

The Bremen State Police (German: Polizei Bremen) is the state police force of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. It has approximately 2,500 officers. Head of policing is Lutz Müller; political responsibel senator for the interrior Ulrich Mäurer.

Bremen police constisting of three main divisions: cenral police directorat for traffic police etc (Zentrale Polizeidirektion), readiness police (Direktion Einsatz) and criminal police (Direktion Kriminalpolizei/Landeskriminalamt).^[1]

in Nazi-Germany policing in Bremen was headed by a SS- oder NSDAP members, but the commander of police was still the major of Bremen.Schutzpolizei, 1940 stellvertretender Polizeipräsident und 1941 bis 1945 Polizeipräsident. Police was constisting of a small Schutzpolizei, a hig number of so called "Luftschutzpolizei" (Air Raid Precautions police), a city corps 1780 and plant protection police.

Bremen Police was formed after the World War II as law enforcement agengy for the state of Bremen. In 1947 a state criminal investigation office (Landeskriminalamt, LKA) were founded, which closely worked along the criminal police of Control Commission for Germany (British Element) and later on the the related office in Lower Saxony. In 1974 Landeskriminalamt got independed form policing and closed as an own authorithy in 1986. Since 2000 Landeskriminalamt is a part of state police criminal investigation office.

The traditional police headquarter is the city centers Polizeihaus Am Wall, headquarter of Bremen police from 1908 till 1999. In the builing is still the inner-city police office; police headquarter is now in Bremen-Vahr. Riot police and police school is based in Hindenburg-barracks in Bremen-Neustadt.

Bremen police have a marime devision called Wasserschutzpolizei Bremen ("Water Police Force"), WSP. Wasserschutzpolizei Bremen is part of Direktion Einsatz and responsible for the water police tasks and the naval police enforcement on the the river of Weser. Local offices ar in the port of Doventor (Bremen) and the container terminal (Bremerhaven). The tasks of the WSP include operational and patrol duty, crime prevention, dangerous goods transport monitoring, environmental protection, maritime safety, prevention and contact service in recreational shipping. Until 2011, WSP Bremen was also responsible for the police control of international traffic in the seaports of Bremen and Bremerhaven till it was handed over to the Federal Police at the instigation of the police leadership.