Kriminalpolizei
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thumb|The badge of the Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany)|Federal Criminal Police Office personnel Kriminalpolizei (, "criminal police") is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the police forces of Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland. In Nazi Germany, the Kripo was the criminal police department for the entire Reich. Today, in the Federal Republic of Germany, the state police (Landespolizei) perform the majority of investigations. Its Criminal Investigation Department is known as the Kriminalpolizei or more colloquially, the Kripo.
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It sits within the topics 1872 establishments in Germany, 1945 disestablishments in Germany and Criminal investigation.
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- Instance of
- criminal police
- Country
- Germany
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9 sectionsContents
- Foundation
- Nazi Germany
- Post World War II
- Present day
- Switzerland
- See also
- References
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thumb|The badge of the Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany)|Federal Criminal Police Office personnel
Kriminalpolizei (, "criminal police") is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the police forces of Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland. In Nazi Germany, the Kripo was the criminal police department for the entire Reich. Today, in the Federal Republic of Germany, the state police (Landespolizei) perform the majority of investigations. Its Criminal Investigation Department is known as the Kriminalpolizei or more colloquially, the Kripo.
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