30.08.2019 – 14:49
Police headquarters West Palatinate
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Kaiserslautern (ots)
Police President Michael Denne invited to a ceremony on Friday in the Deutschordensaal of the Kreissparkasse Kaiserslautern.
Around 150 representatives from all of the Rhineland-Palatinate police authorities, staff representatives, the Department of the Interior, the judiciary, local government, the United States Armed Forces, the churches and the private sector took part in the small ceremony, which the combo of the State Police Orchestra Rhineland- Palatinate musically framed.
With crime director Heiner Schmolzi, an experienced crime officer takes over the management of the police force department. He is no stranger to the West Palatinate Police Headquarters. After stations in Ludwigshafen and Mainz, he returned to Kaiserslautern in 2016 and took over the management of the crime directorate. He has been in his new role since April 2019 and is therefore the representative of the head of the agency.
Denne paid tribute to the native Saarlander, who joined the Rhineland-Palatinate in 1979 as a police sergeant: Schmolzi, particularly in difficult situations, was characterized by a serenity that allowed him to keep track of things even under great pressure and on difficult occasions and make the right decisions, said the chief of police. When Denne started training with the criminal police in Kaiserslautern in 1991, Schmolzi was one of his trainers. “We got to know each other in investigations after a bank robbery in Hochspeyer and a murder in Kusel. I got to know and appreciate your excellent comprehension, your high motivation and your great sense of responsibility, but above all also the good collegial cooperation and your humor”, so Denne.
Schmolzi’s successor as head of the Kaiserslautern crime department, Frank Gautsche, previously held management positions in Ludwigshafen and Mainz before returning to the Barbarossa city in 2012. Criminal director Gautsche was initially on the executive staff. In 2015 he took over the management of the criminal inspection, three years later he was appointed head of the central criminal inspection. Now he has been officially introduced into his office as head of the Kaiserslautern crime directorate.
Denne and Gautsche have known each other for a number of years, so the President was all the more pleased that the Ministry had followed his request and that Gautsche had taken over the management of the Kaiserslautern crime department. The chief of police was particularly impressed by the calm and level-headed manner of the Southwest Palatinate, especially when it came to looking at complicated matters from all sides in a short time, often under great pressure, weighing up arguments and then making the right decisions. According to Denne, Gautsche is highly regarded among his employees.
With crime director Magnus Schröder, the third detective is also assigned a new function. Schröder succeeds Gautsche as head of the Central Criminal Inspection. It is not his first leadership position at the West Palatinate Police Headquarters, but his first in Kaiserslautern. From 2010 to 2016 Magnus Schröder was already in the service of the Presidium as head of the Pirmasens crime inspection. He also worked for the riot police in Enkenbach, in Mainz and most recently in the police headquarters in Trier.
The head of the agency also had appreciative words for Schröder. Denne described the native Saarlander, who entered the service of the Bavarian police in 1987 before switching to the Rhineland-Palatinate police force in 1991, as a committed and clever mind. During his time as head of the criminal police in Pirmasens, there were numerous successes. Denne cited the seizure of a yacht full of drugs in collaboration with the Spanish and French police as an example.
As the youngest member of the new management team, Police Adviser Johannes Freundorfer takes on a management function on the management staff. He will be responsible for staff area 1. Freundorfer worked for the Police Inspectorate Kaiserslautern 1 from 2009 to 2017. After studying at the German Police University in Münster, he had been a lecturer at the Rhineland-Palatinate Police College since 2017. He assumed his new role on August 1 from police officer Jaqueline Schröder. She has taken on a new role at the Ministry of the Interior and for Sports in Mainz.
The police chief emphasized that in his free time Freundorfer successfully completed the four-semester part-time master’s program “Criminology and Police Science” at the law faculty of the Ruhr University in Bochum. The topic of his master thesis was “Prevention of violence through police communication with football fans via social networks”. The concept he co-initiated in this regard will also be put to the test next Sunday, Denne said.
Greetings spoke Dr. Udo Gehring, chief prosecutor in Kaiserslautern, Franz-Dieter Ankner, police vice president in Trier, police ministers Anne Henning and Patrick Stöbener, and Uwe Leitheiser, the chairman of the staff council. In the end, crime director Heiner Schmolzi thanked the guests. | erf
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