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.
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.