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.

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

[5] They have very limited powers (identity verification, questioning and can prohibit people from staying in a certain area) under the principle of proportionality.

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.