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:
“If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.”
—Ben Elton (b. 1959)
“Blind and unwavering indiscipline at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.”
—Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)
“Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength—and strength to enhance affiliation.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)