This commitment to civic action is seen in the Sicherheitswacht auxiliary state police program, where approx.

The BPAs are situated in Munich, Eichstätt, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Königsbrunn, Dachau and Sulzbach-Rosenberg and have 10 companies as the state’s mobile police reserve.

The helicopter squadron has nine modern choppers stationed at Munich Airport and Roth Airfield near Nuremberg.

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

There are Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns for high risk calls in all patrol cars.