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:
“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
“His strength is so tender, his wildness so meek,”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
“Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)