COUNCIL OF Brussels, 13 March 2001 (22.03) THE EUROPEAN UNION (OR. de)

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ENFOPOL 19 COMIX 199

NOTE from : German delegation to : Police Cooperation Working Party/ EU/Iceland and Norway Mixed Committee No. prev. doc.: 11842/00 ENFOPOL 65 COMIX 686 Subject: Updating the Schengen Handbook on Cross-Border Police Cooperation (SCH/I (98) 90 – Situation as at 3 March 1999)

The Nordic States will implement the provisions of the Schengen acquis from 25 March 2001 onwards. In the context of police cooperation, this includes provisions on mutual assistance between police authorities (Article 39 of the Schengen Convention) exchanging information without being so requested (Article 46 of the Schengen Convention), cross-border surveillance (Article 40 of the Schengen Convention) and pursuit (Article 41 of the Schengen Convention).

In order to apply these provisions in practice on a day-to-day basis, the police authorities require details of how the responsible departments can be reached. As far as the responsible German authorities are concerned, the only changes to the data already included in the Schengen Handbook on Cross-Border Police Cooperation are in the fact sheet on Germany in Section 3 (pursuit). In view of the fact that pursuit will in future be possible over the German-Danish border, the authorities to contact in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Federal Border Guard have been added in (g) and (h) of that Section.

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6961/01 col/LG/mc 1 DG H II EN ANNEX Section 3 Fact sheet – Germany

SECTION 3

Article 41: cross-border pursuit

FACT SHEET - GERMANY

• List of German officers authorised to exercise the power of pursuit

• law enforcement officers of the Federal and Länder police

• exclusively for the areas of illicit trafficking in narcotics and psychotropic substances and arms trafficking, members of the Zollfahndungsdienst (customs investigation authority) in their capacity as auxiliary members of the public prosecutor's office .

• Restrictions on the power of pursuit in Germany

The Federal Republic of Germany does not make any differences between the frontiers. The power of pursuit may therefore be exercised in Germany subject to the following conditions:

6961/01 col/LG/mc 2 ANNEX DG H II EN • offences which may entail exercise of the power of pursuit Except in cases where the person has escaped, the power of pursuit may only be exercised in Germany where the person has been caught in the act of committing or participating in one of the extraditable offences (subparagraph (b) of Article 41 (4)):

• there are no temporal or territorial restrictions on pursuit

• the agents have the power to stop and question

• Statutory provisions of particular importance when exercising right of pursuit

1. Citizen's power of arrest

In addition to the right to detain a person, the regulations governing citizen's arrest pursuant to the first sentence of Article 127 (1) of the German Code of Penal Procedure continue to apply (when someone is caught in the act of committing an offence): "If someone is caught or pursued in the act of committing an offence, any person may temporarily detain him without a court warrant if there is reason to suspect he will flee or if his identity cannot be immediately established." The power to make a citizen's arrest does not concern the act that gives rise to the pursuit but solely to other offences that come to officers' notice in the course of the pursuit. The temporarily detained person should be immediately handed over to the first available police officer or public prosecutor.

6961/01 col/LG/mc 3 ANNEX DG H II EN 2. Exercise of special rights in respect of road traffic regulations

The police officers authorised to exercise the right of pursuit in Germany under international agreements are exempt during pursuit in German territory from the provisions of the German Road Traffic Regulations (Strassenverkehrsordnung – StVO) pursuant to § 35, paragraph 1a, of the Road Traffic Regulations if urgently necessary to perform sovereign tasks. Special rights may only be exercised with due regard for public safety and law and order (§ 35, paragraph 8, of the Road Traffic Regulations).

• definitions

1. Service weapons

Any weapons coming under the category used by police forces that are designated as service weapons under Federal and Länder police law. Service weapons shall include pistols, revolvers, sub-machine guns and rifles in all Länder, and may include truncheons and tear gas in some Länder.

2. Self-defence

Self-defence is defence which is necessary to avert an imminent unlawful attack on oneself or a third party. An act necessarily committed in self-defence is not unlawful.

6961/01 col/LG/mc 4 ANNEX DG H II EN 3. Home

German law does not give a legal definition of "home" which covers all the relevant fields of law here (law on penal procedure, police law and the Constitution). Instead, the definition has been gradually developed through specific case law. However, the following definition is applied as a rule: A home is any place which is actually occupied for living, working, operating or trading purposes, together with any other vacant property (such as a fenced-in enclosure). The term "home" also includes mobile property used for the same purpose, such as boats, caravans, tents and berths (sleeping cabins) in heavy goods vehicles. In principle, any premises termed as a home that is accessible to the public may be entered. A place is considered accessible to the public if as a rule anybody may visit by reason of actual or presumed consent on the part of the proprietor, as is the case, for example, with public houses, theatres, department stores, business or commercial premises that have opening hours.

6961/01 col/LG/mc 5 ANNEX DG H II EN Liaison authority to contact upon crossing the border 1

(a) Baden-Wurttemberg

If the Austrian border has been crossed:

Wasserschutzpolizei – Abschnitt Bodensee Seestraße 7 88045 Friedrichshafen Tel: +49(0)7541/701-260 Fax: +49(0)7541/701-255 or 269

Polizeidirektion Friedrichshafen Friedrichstraße 85, 88045 Friedrichshafen Tel.: + 49 (0) 7541/701-168 Fax: + 49 (0) 7541/701-135

If the French border has been crossed:

Landespolizeidirektion Karlsruhe Durlacher Allee 31-33 76131 Karlsruhe Tel: +49(0)721/666-0 Fax: +49(0)721/666-326

Landespolizeidirektion Freiburg Bissierstraße 1 79114 Freiburg Tel: +49(0)761/882-1 Fax: +49(0)761/882-3399 and 3398

1 Subject to the conclusion of further bilateral arrangements referred to in Article 39(4) of the Schengen Convention.

6961/01 col/LG/mc 6 ANNEX DG H II EN (b) Bavaria:

Polizeidirektion Kempten Auf der Breite 17 87439 Kempten (Allgäu) Tel: +49(0)831/5917-0 Fax: +49(0)831/5917240

Polizeidirektion Weilheim Am Meisteranger 5 82362 Weilheim Tel: +49(0)881/640-0 Fax: +49(0)881/640126

Polizeidirektion Rosenheim Ellmaierstraße 3 83022 Rosenheim Tel: +49(0)8031/212-0 Fax: +49(0)8031 212-109

Polizeidirektion Traunstein Eugen-Rosner Straße 2 83278 Traunstein Tel: +49(0)861/9873-0 Fax: +49(0)861 9873-126

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Polizeidirektion Passau Nibelungenstraße 17 94032 Passau Tel: +49(0)851/9511-0 Fax: +49(0)851/9511-190

(c) :

Polizeiinspektion Emsland Brockhauser Weg 21 49809 Lingen Tel: + 49(0) 591 / 87-211 or 212 Fax: + 49 (0)591 87 - 250

(d) North- Westphalia:

Kreispolizeibehörde Borken – Polizeistation und Kriminalkommissariat – Burloer Straße 91 46325 Borken Tel.: +49 (0) 2861/900-1350 Fax.: + 49 (0) 2861/900-541

Kreispolizeibehörde Kleve Kanalstraße 7 47533 Kleve Tel.: +49 (0) 2821/504-0 or 1160 Fax.: +49 (0) 2821/504-1165

6961/01 col/LG/mc 8 ANNEX DG H II EN Kreispolizeibehörde Viersen Lindenstraße 50 41747 Viersen Tel.: + 49 (0) 2162/377 -0 or 1150 Fax.: + 49 (0) 2162/377-1155

Kreispolizeibehörde Heinsberg Valkenburger Straße 45 52525 Heinsberg Tel.: +49 (0) 2452/920-0 or 641 Fax: +49 (0) 2452/920-649

Kreispolizeibehörde Aachen Hubert-Wienen-Straße 25 52070 Aachen Tel.: +49 (0) 241/9577-0 or 6666 Fax: +49 (0) 241/9577-6665

Kreispolizeibehörde Euskirchen Kölner Str. 76 53879 Euskirchen Tel.: +49 (0) 2251/799-0 or 242 Fax: +49 (0) 2251/799-257

(e) Rhineland-Palatinate:

Polizeipräsidium Südallee 3 54290 Trier Tel: + 49 (0)651 713-1 Fax: + 49 (0)651 713-376

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Polizeipräsidium Rheinpfalz Wittelsbachstraße 3 67061 Tel: + 49(0) 621 5613-0 Fax: + 49 (0)612 5613-444

Polizeipräsididum Westpfalz Logenstraße 5 67655 Kaiserslautern Tel: + 49(0) 631 369-0 Fax: + 49(0) 631 369-1290

(f) Saar:

Polizeidirektion West Alte-Brauerei-Straße 3 66740 Saarlouis Tel: + 49(0) 68 31 9 01-0

Polizeidirektion Mitte Mainzer Straße 136 66121 Saarbrücken Tel: + 49(0) 681 9 62-0

Polizeidirektion Ost Falkenstraße 11 66538 Neunkirchen Tel: + 49(0) 68 21 2 03-0

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(g) Schleswig-Holstein:

Innenministerium des Landes Schleswig-Holstein Lagezentrum Mühlenweg 166 24116 Kiel Tel.: +49 (0) 431 160-5020 Fax: +49 (0) 431 160-5029

Grenzschutzpräsidium Nord Lagezentrum Raaberg 6 24576 Bad Bramstedt Tel.: +49 (0) 4192 502-153 Fax: +49 (0) 4192 899698

(h) Mecklenburg-WesternPomerania

(in the event of pursuit continuing in the territory of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

Innenministerium des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Lagezentrum Wissmarsche Str. 123 19053 Schwerin Tel.: +49 (0) 385 588-2471 or 2472 Fax: +49 (0) 385 588-2480 or 2481

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