Mobilní zásahové jednotky

Mobile Einsatzkommandos (MEK)
Mobiles Einsatzkommando - MEK
Mobile Emergency Response Units



In this case it is not one specific unit. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the police are organised on a state-by-state basis. The individual Länder have their own Land Police (Landespolizei). In addition, there is a Federal Police (Bundespolizei), but this was only created in 2005 by transforming the existing Federal Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz - BGS) and this has not changed the existence of the Federal Police in principle.


In addition to the special units of the Federal Police (GSG 9, BFE+), there are also special units of the individual state police forces. Usually, there is at least one SEK (Spezialeinsatzkommando, formerly Sondereinsatzkommando) and one MEK (Mobiles Einsatzkommando), with the SEK being a matter of the uniformed and MEK non-uniformed part of the provincial police. Some provincial police have more than one SEK, and some have a single unit that combines both the MEK and the SEK. In addition, in some states there are separate negotiation groups (Verhandlungsgruppe - VG), and in Berlin there is a separate sniper unit (Präzisionsschützenkommando - PSK).


The time and reasons for the creation of these units are virtually identical to GSG 9.
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The remit of the individual provincial MECs primarily includes monitoring and search measures. If, due to the mobility of the perpetrators, it is not possible to determine the place of arrest with certainty in advance and there is no need to use the special protective means of intervention used by the SEK teams, the MEKs carry out their own arrests in connection with the surveillance. MEKs are deployed in the prevention and prosecution of serious offenders when their special equipment and training is needed in surveillance and search. They are usually requested by police departments when they need to secure evidence in a serious crime that can only be procured through covert operational means.


Examples of deployment include situations where offenders leave a crime scene with hostages and set themselves in motion or when the whereabouts of kidnapped persons need to be traced. In addition to kidnapping, extortion and hostage taking, MEKs are also deployed in the fight against organised crime, often in the area of drug and arms trafficking and in cases of politically motivated crimes.


The Federal Criminal Office (Bundeskriminalamt - BKA) also has its own MEKs.



Sources:


Streife, vol. 43, special issue "Spezialeinheiten" (published by MdI NRW)
http://www.rp.baden-wuerttemberg.de
Eastern Bohemian Police Bulletin (May 2005)
http://de.wikipedia.org
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