Strength
The Bundespolizei consists of around 40,000 personnel,
- 30,000 are fully trained police officers.
- 21,000 provide border, railway and aviation security,
- 6,000 serve in the Alert Police
- 3,000 serve in the following special units:
- the Central Office for Communications and Information,
- GSG 9 and
- the Aviation Wing,
- 10,000 salaried civilian (unarmed) support personnel,
- 6,800 civil servants who perform administrative and support services
- 2,000 Immigration inspectors (called the Individual Service) who perform operational duty handling border protection and immigration matters and flight passenger checks.
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Famous quotes containing the word strength:
“The strength of a man’s virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said—the words one didn’t have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one’s dignity or survival.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
“Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)