Common name Kantonspolizei Zürich Phone +41 44 247 22 11 | Formed 1804 | |
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Abbreviation kapo züri (inofficial and of Swiss German origin) Employees about 3,800 full time jobs, 2,247 police officers (2015) Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Operations jurisdiction* State of Kanton Zürich, CH Address Kasernenstrasse 29, 8021 Zürich, Switzerland Profiles | ||
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Kantonspolizei Zürich, literally meaning "Cantonal police Zürich", is the German language term, and officially name of the police corps of the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The former Landjäger-Corps des Kantons Zürich in 1804 AD, is a governmental subdivision under the guidance of the Government of the canton of Zürich, and an executive authority of Direktion der Justiz und des Innern, the justice and internal matters department of the Canton of Zürich.
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- Die eine sekunde kantonspolizei z rich
- Polizist in werbevideo der personalgewinnung kantonspolizei z rich
- Purposes of the police corps
- References
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Purposes of the police corps
Established in 1804 AD as Landjäger-Corps des Kantons Zürich, and based in the city of Zürich, the cantonal police is responsible among the regional and local police stations of the municipalities in the canton of Zürich, and namely the Stadtpolizei Zürich, for cantonal relevated purpose as part of the law enforcement in Switzerland.
Among others, namely the law enforcement protection of the Zürich Airport, Further duties include the support of its municipal police stations, road patrol and conrol, criminal investigation, water police on Zürichsee, and so on.
As well as in the widest sense anti-terror purpose, so at the Zürich Airport, the suppressing of potentially demonstrations and riots in the widest sense, among a few others and the most popular, on occasion of the so-called Opernhauskrawalle youth protest on 30/31 May 1980 at the Sechseläutenplatz square in Zürich, documented in the 2000 Swiss documentary film Züri brännt, and twelve yours ago the so-called Globuskrawalle, named after the former Globus building situated at the Bahnhofbrücke Zürich.
In Switzerland, Kantonspolizei Zürich is the largest police troop, by personal and finances, compromising as of January 2015 of 2,247 police officers, respectively about 3,800 full time jobs in all, including about 100 at the Zürich Airport, and having on 15 January 2015 the highest personal staff ever. The police also provides the ePolice internet service, houses a museum named Kriminalmuseum that was established in 1901, and a program to exchange of experiences with international police corps.