Listed below are people killed by non-military law enforcement officers in Germany, whether or not in the line of duty, irrespective of reason or method.
Included, too, are cases where individuals died in police custody due to applied techniques.
Inclusion in the list implies neither wrongdoing nor justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved.
(official statistics)[1][2] (counted)[clarification needed] Figures before 1978 can not be compared directly to later numbers.
A list of police killings was first compiled 1997; owing to a legal 20-year document retention limit, some files may have been destroyed.