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Dorvish Police
Dorvische Polizei
Dorvische Polizei Logo
Shield of the Dorvish Police
Flag of the Dorvish Police
Flag of the Dorvish Police
Agency overview
Formed May, 3872
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  • Dorvish Federal Police
Jurisdiction State-wide
Headquarters Hauptpolizeigebäude
Central District, Haldor
Motto Treue und Recht
Loyalty and Law
Parent department Ministry of the Interior

The Dorvish Police (Dundorfian: Dorvische Polizei) is the successor to the Dorvish Federal Police (Dundorfian: Dorvische Föderale Polizei) and the official national police force of Dorvik. The Dorvish Police were reformed underneath Minister of Defense General-Field Marshal Bonifaz Voll, who worked closely with several other leading police officials in Dorvik to reform the police to bring them underneath a more civilian-like structure. General of the Police Maximilain Lehwess was General-Field Marshall Voll's point man on the reform, General Lehwess and several other politicians and police officials worked closely with the current police leadership and came up with the final structure of the Dorvish Police. The Dorvish Police were reformed officially on January 1st, 3870 as part of a celebration for the Dorvish Police.

The Dorvish Police lost much of their power in theory, the Dorvish Police were divided amongst the Lander, closely associated with the term "states" in Dorvik. The Dorvish Police are technically a state-wide force, they however are divided into different branches and much of the control has been given to the Lander when it comes to their police forces but in theory, the system remains highly centralized as is tradition in Dorvish government organizations. The head of the Dorvish Police is known as the Chief of Dorvish Police (Dundorfian: Chef der Dorvischen Polizei) and ranks as a Colonel-General of the Dorvish Police, known as Generaloberst in Dundorfian. This trend is similar to the Dorvish Federal Police but the new Dorvish Police is organized differently with the Chief of Dorvish Police responsible for all Dorvish Police.

The Dorvish Police are primarily responsible for "minor crimes" in that crimes that are not serious investigations. The State Criminal Police are the "detectives" and "investigators" of the Dorvish law enforcement apparatus. The Dorvish Police are responsible for typically initial contact and potential arrest but it is unlikely that they will continue anything above a surface level investigation; while some do, those are rare cases.

History[]

The Dorvish Police much like the Dorvish Internal Troops, Dorvish Coast Guard and Dorvish Border Troops the Dorvish National Police were highly funded and disorganized since their inception in 2002. The first National Police was run by a Council of Chiefs who were appointed by the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Internal Affairs with one becoming Senior Chief of the Police. When the Communist Party of Dorvik reformed the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Dorvish National Police were the first to go ahead and be changed. Now headed by the Director of the Dorvik National Police who ranks as Chief of the Dorvik National Police. Anastasiy Meindl, who replaced German Kovachev later in his career.

Under the Dorvische Volkspartei (Dorvish People's Party) the Dorvish National Police expanded it's departments to include a criminal investigative service and a department dedicated to regulation and overseeing the state, district and city police. In September 3237 the Dorvik National Police renewed its contract with both the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Justice to work under them.

In April 3282, Minister of Internal Affairs Sigmund Kerner suspended the contract between the Ministry of Justice and the National Police, effectively making the Ministry of Internal Affairs responsible for the National Police. Under the Federal Administration Act of 3388 the Dorvish National Police were renamed the Dorvish Federal Police to better reflect the Federations attitude towards federalism. In the Resolution on the federal police of April 3390, passed by Minister of Internal Tase Sokoloff the Chief of the Dorvish Federal Police became Director of the Dorvish Federal Police and became an automatic promotion to Colonel-General of the Dorvish Federal Police.

Underneath the reform of Minister of Defense Bonifaz Voll and General of the Police Maximilian Lehwess the Dorvish Federal Police became the Dorvish Police and seriously reformed their mandate and mission, they began coordinating with various other ministries who took the administrative and financial burden off the ever-growing Dorvish Federal Police and allowed the Dorvish Police to be able to adapt to their new mission. While the Dorvish Police in theory lost power as they devolved police powers, they gained the duties of border protection and internal domestic security, an issue that had been wanted for quite sometime. The Dorvish Police received much of the funding of the former Dorvish Federal Border Guard Service and the Dorvish Internal Troops. Similar to before, the criminal investigation of the Dorvish Police was split to the Criminal Police, the successor to the State Investigative Committee, known as the Criminal Police.

Minister of the Interior Waldemar von Wädenssteig-Schwarzburg-Stralbrück decided that the ministry needed to change slightly, as was common of Dorvish politicians to alter and change their ministries as they felt was necessary. Minister von Wädenssteig-Schwarzburg-Stralbrück announced that the Protection Police (Dundorfian: Schutzpolize) would be transformed into the Field Police (Dundorfian: Feldpolizei) while transferring the State Criminal Police to the Ministry of Justice.

In November 4260 when the Free Conservative Party captured the Ministry of the Interior the Minister of the Interior Velten von Asnacht, a Lieutenant General of the Police, appointed Ludwig von Heusmann as the Chief of Dorvish Police, he was subsequently promoted from his rank of Major General of the Police to Colonel-General of the Police. Chief of Police von Heusmann began and series of reforms to bring the Dorvish Police from a second-rate organization into the modern era, despite increases in budgets the Chief of Police began a subsequent purge of police members who felt were inadequate.

Minister of the Interior Klemens von Lÿndow-Sennhein, a Colonel-General in the Dorvish Police began a full-scale review of the Dorvish Police at the start of his tenure in June, 4673 and has carried it into the current years. The first change that the Interior Ministry recommended was the establishment of the Order Police (Dundorfian: Ordnungspolizei) who will be members of the Dorvish Police that are assigned SWAT or Special Response Teams duties, similar to that in other countries. They are militarily trained police officers who are used in a wide variety of ways, mostly in terms of civil disorder and natural disaster relief. They are organized into a Platoon, Company, Battalion and sometimes Regiment (for larger cities).

The second recommendation was the splitting of the Provincial Police into the Municipal Police and the Rural Police. Rural Police (Dundorfian: Landpolizei) will be members of the Dorvish Police that are assigned to smaller towns, cities, and villages. They are also often found patrolling the country sides of the Dorvish Kingdom. The Municipal Police (Dundorfian: Stadtpolizei) will be members of the Dorvish Police that are assigned to large cities and some large towns.

Organization[]

Administrative structure[]

The Chief of Dorvish Police ranks as the highest ranking member of the Dorvish Police. The Chief of Dorvish Police is officially appointed by the head of state and holds the rank of Colonel-General of the Police, while there may be other Colonel-General's, the most senior is the Chief of Dorvish Police. The head of the Administrative Office, known as the Chief of Police Administration usually ranks as a General of the Police, the Chief of Police Operations usually ranks as a General of the Police. The Chief of the Border Police, the Chief of the Provincial Police, the Chief of the Municipal Police and the Chief of the Rural Police all generally rank as Lieutenant General's of the Police.

The Special Police Command Office does not possess a singular "Chief of Special Police" due to the diverse nature of the special police underneath the overview of the Special Police Command Office.

  • Amtsgruppe I - Police Main Office (Dundorfian: Polizei Hauptamt)
    • Main Office of the Chief of the Dorvish Police
    • Office of the Police General Counsel
    • Office of Labor Relations (works with the All-Dorvish Police Trade Union (Dundorfian: Alldorvischer Polizeigewerkschaft; ADPG))
  • Amtsgruppe II - Administrative Office (Dundorfian: Verwaltungsamt)
    • Office of Professionalism (Abteilung für Professionalität; AfP)
    • Police Recruit and Training Department (Polizeirekrutierungs- und Ausbildungsabteilung)
      • Dorvish Police Academy (Dundorfian: Dorvische Polizeiakademie)
  • Commands of the Dorvish Police - Chief of Police Operations
    • Border Police Command (Grenzpolizeikommando) - Chief of the Border Police
      • Operations Department
      • Special Operations Department
      • Human Rights and Legal Department
    • Provincial Police Command (Provinzpolizeikommando) - Chief of Provincial Police
    • Municipal Police Command (Stadtpolizeikommando) - Chief of Municipal Police
    • Rural Police Command (Landpolizeikommando) - Chief of Rural Police
    • Special Police Command Office (Sonderkommando der Polizei)

Organizational structure[]

The Dorvish Police maintain a strict organization throughout the country, the Dorvish Police maintain an organization at a Province, District and local level.

  • Provincial Police Headquarters (Dundorfian: Provinzpolizeipräsidium) - Provincial police presidiums are the highest organization of the Dorvish police within a Province. They are headed by a Provincial Police President (Dundorfian: Provinzpolizeipräsident) ranking at General of Police (Dundorfian: General der Polizei);
  • Police Presidium (Dundorfian: Polizeipräsidium) - Police presidium's are a group of districts within a specific province, headed by a Police President (Dundorfian: Polizeipräsident) ranking at or above Lieutenant General of Police (Dundorfian: Generalleutnant der Polizei);
  • Police Directorate (Dundorfian: Polizeidirektion) - Police directorates are the highest authority within a county (Dundorfian: Kreis), headed by a Police Director (Dundorfian: Polizeidirektor) ranking at or above Major General of Police (Dundorfian: Generalmajor der Polizei);
  • Police Group (Dundorfian: Polizeigruppe) - Three to five police areas in a geographic area within a large city, headed by a Police Head Inspector (Dundorfian: Polizeioberinspektor) ranking at or above Colonel of Police (Dundorfian: Oberst der Polizei);
  • Police District (Dundorfian: Polizeiabschnitt) - Five or more precincts in a geographic area within a city, headed by a Police Inspector (Dundorfian: Polizeiinspektor) ranking at or above Major of Police (Dundorfian: Major der Polizei);
  • Police Precinct (Dundorfian: Polizeirevier) - 25 - 50 Police Officers (with additional support staff), headed by a Police Councilor (Dundorfian: Polizeirat) ranking at or above Captain of Police (Dundorfian: Hauptmann der Polizei)

Operational structure[]

While the Dorvish Police is a national-level agency, the various province-level Ministry of the Interior's are responsible for their respective police forces. There are very few if any nationally-assigned formations to the Dorvish Police and in reality, despite its national-level administration, the Dorvish Police are largely controlled, managed and financed by their respective provinces.

Dorvish Police wear the national flag on their left shoulder and they wear their provincial patch on their right shoulder, some cities and municipalities wear metal city badges over their right breast pocket. This is done because provincial police can be assigned anywhere within the province. The exception are the specific cities who have a dedicated police force that often has its member excluded from province-wide transfers.

The day-to-day patrol operations are handled by the Schutzpolizei (Luthorian: Protection Police; often called the "Schupo") these are the cops you see on the streets patrolling, responding to crimes and emergency calls. The Sicherheitspolizei (Luthorian: Security Police; often called the "SiPo") are overseen by the State Security Service but are managed for the most part by the provincial police. The SiPo provide additional manpower in the case of natural disasters, large-scale events, demonstrations or riot/crowd control when necessary.

Underneath the auspices of Provincial Police are several dozen specialized units and formations. In each province there exists a Provincial Criminal Office (Dundorfian: Provinzkriminalamt; PKA) which functions similar to the national-level State Criminal Police in its investigatory functions. Underneath the PKA are several specialist formations: the Special Task Force (Dundorfian: Spezialeinsatzkommando; SEK) which are special police tactical units for provincial police forces; the Mobile Task Forces (Dundorfian: Mobiles Einsatzkommando; MEK) which are plainclothes units which conduct observation and other specialized enforcement duties; the final specialized unit is the Personal Protection Force (Dundorfian: Personenschutzkommando; PSK) which is responsible for the protection of province-level politicians, VIPs and others as needed.

Each province maintains their own Criminal Police (Dundorfian: Kriminalpolizei) which are the "detectives" and similar to the Provincial Criminal Office investigate crimes outside of normal police work. The Provincial Criminal Police tend to function on the low-to-middle tier crime whereas the Provincial Criminal Office tends to investigate more higher-end crime such as organized crime, and politically motivated crimes.

Interior Minister Colonel-General of the Police Maik Manteuffel announced in January 5196 that several specialized police forces would return to the respective provincial police formations. Each province will now maintain the following specialized units: Verkehrspolizei (Traffic police); Autobahnpolizei (Highway police); Wasserschutzpolizei (WSP; Water/river police);

Branches of police[]

  • Administrative Police (Dundorfian: Verwaltungspolizei) - The administration division of the Dorvish Police is divided into State, Province, District and Local levels. This is the leadership of the Dorvish Police at all levels, each successive level has authority of the lower with the state being the highest and underneath the direction of the Ministry of the Interior of the Dorvish government. The Administrative Police are also responsible for licensing and other administrative manners.
  • Border Police (Dundorfian: Grenzschutzpolizei) - The Border Protection Police is the successor to the Federal Border Guard Service (Dorvik) which was folded into the Dorvish Police force, both enhancing the budget of the Dorvish Police and giving General Lehwess control over an important aspect of the Dorvish Police that had been hotly contested. The Ministry of the Interior was pleased and pushed for this reformed as the Federal Security Service was slated to be reformed. They are one of the largest branches of the Dorvish Police, they share close relations and sphere of influence with the Satte Customs Administration.
  • Provincial Police (Dundorfian: Provinzpolizei) and Local Police - Though they are underneath the authority of the Dorvish Police, they are operated independently and funded by the level of government they are assigned. For instance, the Largonian Provinzpolizei are funded by the Province of Largonia, but they are required by law to listen to the state if ordered. Such is true for each level of policing. Each level of police have a similar organization as the Dorvish Police at the state level, they are organized according to the needs of the state.

Special Police[]

In Dorvik the Sonderpolizei (Luthoran: Special police) are several other police agencies that can be called upon by the Chief of Dorvish Police if so required, though they are technically underneath the jurisdiction of their respective ministries, departments, agencies, services, etc.

  • Diplomatic Police (Dundorfian: Diplomatische Polizei) - Underneath the control of the Chief of the Diplomatic Police, supervised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
  • State Economic Police (Dundorfian: Staatwirtschaftspolizei) - Underneath the control of the Chief of the State Economic Police, supervised by the Ministry of Finance;
  • Traffic Police (Dundorfian: Verkehrspolizei) - Underneath the control of the Chief of the Traffic Police, supervised by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport;
  • Social Services Police (Dundorfian: Sozialdienste Polizei) - Underneath the control of the Chief of the Social Services Police, supervised by the Ministry of Health and Social Services;
  • Economic Protection Police (Dundorfian: Wirtschaftsschutzpolizei) - Underneath the control of the Chief of the Economic Protection Police, supervised by the Ministry of Trade and Industry;
  • Railway Police (Dundorfian: Bahnpolizei) and the Railway Criminal Police (Dundorfian: Bahnkriminalpolizei) - The Dorvish State Railways (Dorvische Staatsbahn) is one of the most popular ways for tourist and Dorvish citizens to travel, underneath the joint control of the state owned Dorvish State Railway and the Dorvish Police, the Railway Police operate to protect and serve the users of the Dorvish State Railway. The Dorvish State Railway works with the Railway Police and Railway Criminal Police, they investigate crimes on the Dorvish State Railway.
  • State Criminal Police - The State Criminal Police are the investigative police of Dorvik, they were originally underneath the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior however the decision was made to transfer them to the Ministry of Justice where they serve as the primary investigators of the Dorvish state.

Previous branches of police[]

  • Field Police (Dundorfian: Feldpolizei) - The Dorvish Police maintain the Protection Police which are heavily armed and armored units which are dispatched throughout Dorvik to respond to civil disturbances, provide disaster relief and act as a first line of defense against foreign or domestic military actions. The Protection Police draw much of their members from former members of the Dorvish Internal Troops and are considered their spiritual successors. They are organized as military units and are placed in major cities throughout Dorvik, the Protection Police do also conduct normal police work in many of the regions of Dorvik along regional units. In early 4018 the Ministry of the Interior agreed to reform the Protection Police into the Field Police. The Field Police were eventually transferred over the State Security Main Office after its re-organization. The Field Police became the Security Police and filled a similar interior guard role.
  • Hafensicherungstruppen ("harbor security troops") and Lagersicherungstruppen ("warehouse security troops") - Underneath the control of the State Customs Administration. These are the armed police of the State Customs Administration charged with securing the ports and land trade points of Dorvik and carrying out operations to combat smuggling and illegal trade. These units use the word "truppe" but also use the term police interchangeably. The Hafensicherungstruppen also double as the Dorvish Coast Guard.

Uniforms and equipment[]

The Dorvish Police can be found in a wide variety of uniforms. Dorvish Police are assigned two uniforms, a class "A" which is a ceremonial dress uniform and a class "B" which is an everyday uniform. Dorvish Police units are sometimes granted access to tactical military style uniforms, usually a black, khaki, field grey or dark green BDU-style uniform while others wear plain clothes.

Dorvish Police are all equipped with personal radios, a ballistics vest which can be worn with an inner carrier or an outer carrier, and are equipped with a wide variety of personal tools on their belts. Dorvish Police are equipped with a semi-automatic pistol, most carry several magazines on them with additional ammunition, they carry a flash light, a taser, handcuffs, OC spray and a baton. Dorvish Police often re-certify with OC, baton and firearms on a regular basis.

The Dorvish Police make use of a similar waffenfarbe of the Armed Forces of Dorvik it is based on the piping of the Dorvish Police shoulder epaulets. The Administrative Police wear a carmine red, Border Police wear a light green, Field Police wear a dark green, Provincial Police and Local Police wear white. The various branches of the Special Police wear different colors depending on their branch within their respective service.

Intelligence and security in Dorvik topics
Leadership and overview Ministry of the Interior - Awards and decorations - Rank, insignia and uniforms of Dorvik
Police and law enforcement Dorvish Police (general civilian police) - Diplomatic Police (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) - State Economic Police (Ministry of Finance) - Traffic Police (Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport) - Social Services Police (Ministry of Health and Social Services) - Economic Protection Police (Ministry of Trade and Industry) - State Railway Police and State Railway Criminal Police (Dorvish State Railways) - Harbor and Port Security Troops (State Customs Administration)

State Security Main Office: State Criminal Police (civilian police investigations) - State Security Service (domestic intelligence) - Security Police
Foreign and military Foreign Intelligence Service (foreign intelligence) - Military Security Service (military intelligence)
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