The four regional police authorities (called Landespolizeidirektionen in BW) are headquartered in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Freiburg and Tübingen.

The Landeskriminalamt (State Investigation Bureau) was founded in 1952, is situated in Stuttgart and employs 520 officers and 430 civilian staff.

Its missions are: witness protection, state security, SWAT (Spezialeinsatzkommando) team operations, undercover investigations, statistics, monitoring the development of crime, crime prevention, criminal investigations analysis, exchange of information with foreign countries and forensic science.

The BPDs are situated in Bruchsal, Göppingen, Biberach, Lahr and Böblingen and have approximately 4,000 officers as the state's mobile police reserve and school training staff.

Two of the helicopters are EC 155 transport versions and six are MD 900/902 police operation models.

Some of the main tasks of the Baden-Württemberg Police is the prevention of danger and disturbance and maintenance of public safety, as a part of domestic security.

They prevent and intervene in unlawful activity of any kind, regulate traffic control, and receive emergency calls.

The head of the Baden-Württemberg police, Andreas Renner, was accused of having pressured a much younger female commissioner to perform sexual favors in 2022.

The Police University was founded in 1979 and was initially housed in the former Maria Tann monastery.

They are stationed at Stuttgart Airport and Baden Airport.The Baden-Wuerttemberg water police has a total of 16 heavy and 14 light patrol boats of various types, and 16 rubber dinghies are also used.