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The Thuringia Police is a state law-enforcement agency in Thuringia, Germany with 6.900 Employees. She is subdivided to a Land Police Directorate, the Land Office of Criminal Investigation and the Police Education Facilities. Under the administration of the Land Police Directorate stand seven Land Police inspections, the riot police and the Highway Police, with three more highway police stations. The Police Education Facilities include the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration with the special field of Police and the Education Center of the Thuringian Police.

Tasks
Mission is to guarantee the public safety and order. As a prosecuting authority, it takes action against irregular and criminal acts, identifies perpetrators and analyses patterns. An other job is the danger defence in the area of the internal security, that is the prevention or prevention of illegal actions of every kind. Within the scope of the traffic supervision she regulates flows of traffic and has a weight-bearing role in the emergency help (emergency call). Further the police provides in narrow cooperation with authorities for the crime prevention to recognise possible criminal offences already in the approach and to prevent.

Legal bases
For the area of the danger defence duties and intervention competence of the Thuringian police arise from the police law of the free state Thuringia, to the Thuringian law about duties and competence of the police (PAG) and the ordinal authority law (OBG).

The authorization to intervene in criminal proceedings results from § 163 of the Criminal Procedure Code and for administrative offences the same norm with § 46 of the Administrative Offences Act.