Rhineland-Palatinate Police

They also have a professional development school, which is under the guidance and responsibility of the police department in the Interior Ministry.

The faculty and the school were combined at a new joint facility in 1996 located at the refurbished housing area of the former Hahn Air Base.

The bureau focuses its missions on the following—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.

The BPAs are situated in Enkenbach-Alsenborn and Wittlich serving as the state's mobile police reserve.

Unlike other states, the Rhineland-Palatinate River Police is directly subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior.