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10 Region
Brandenburg
Exchange
Over the past few years 10 Region has assisted with the training
programmes of German police officers by arranging their attachment
for two weeks with Essex Police. This established a professional
relationship with Brandenburg IPA Section Germany.
B
randenburg is the area
that surrounds
Berlin i.e. the famous Brandenburg Gate
landmark. Brandenburg is an area in its
own right, which is policed separately from the
actual city.
Brandenburg IPA invited one of our officers to
sample the ‘Brandenburg Policing Experience’
the opportunity was seized by new IPA member
Detective Sergeant Tim Marshall.
Tim is an experienced Essex Police DS who is
currently attached to a specialist sexual offences
team at Shrub End Police Station, Colchester.
Tim was greeted by officer Dirk Wandt Both were
around 6’5 tall, with large builds and matching
bald heads. They must have made an awesome
sight together!
Whilst there Tim enjoyed many aspects of local
policing, beer and food!
He was involved with The Special Intervention
Group, River Police, Shooting training, Bomb/IED
disposal Team.
Tim also gave a presentation on Essex Police to
a group of German Officers. He also made an
official IPA presentation to a chief officer of the
training premises where he was located.
Tim had a chance for socialising whilst he was
there and managed a ‘whistle-stop tour’ of Berlin
whilst with Dirk as his guide and host. I have it
on good authority that Tim managed to try every
beer available!
He was also given a guided tour around the ex-
residence of Joseph Goebbels, the infamous Nazi
propaganda chief.
Such was the success of his visit that he has
already been invited back to attend an aircraft
show next year.
And all this happened because of the IPA…!
Steve Hunt,
10 Region Secretary
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
Gimborn
Practicalities
My trip to Gimborn started with a
flight from the UK to Dusseldorf,
a word of warning though,
Ryanair have created a new
Dusseldorf aka WEEZE which
is a 90 minute bus journey from
the real Dusseldorf airport in the
opposite direction from Gimborn.
I recommend flying into Cologne
as this is closer.
O
n my arrival on the Saturday
I took a
bus from outside the airport to Cologne
where I was picked up by taxi and taken
to Gimborn.
Although the course was not due to start till the
Monday morning I was welcomed to stay the
extra days at minimal expense.
The lecturers were a mixture of senior police
officers as well as professors and senior
academics from around the world such as:
May-Britt Rinaldo
, Superintendent,
Gothenburg, Sweden
(Evidence based policing)
Alexander Murray
, Chief Superintendent,
Birmingham
(Evidence based policing in the
West Midlands UK – Academy and Practitioners
Working Side by Side – Challenges Concerning
Development and Implementation)
Dr. Fiona Brookman
, Professor of Criminology,
University of South Wales
(Working in
Collaboration Between the Academy and Police
to Enhance Major Crime Investigations)
Henry Kopar
, Police of the Netherlands
(Policing Today and Social Media’s Impact
on the Police Service Assignment and the
Societies’ Speedy Request for Results)
Andreas Bachmann
, Oberstaatsanwait,
Katharina Dinchel, Ruhr-Universitat
Bochum
(Match – Fixing –
The Bochum Case)
Dr Timothy Coupe
, Cambridge
University
(Solvability of Burglaries
in the Perspective of Evidence
Based Policing)
Mary Doyle
, Orebro University CAPS
– Centre for Criminological and
Psychological Research Security and
Legitimacy –
Presentation of a Study
About the Question Whether and to
What Extent Police Officers, Security
Guards and Police Volunteers Create
Feelings of Safety Among the Citizens.
Ger 1 being shown something in back of van
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Article
POLICE WORLD
Vol 61 No. 1, 2016