Autobahnpolizei is a division of the larger state police in Germany whereas in many US states, the whole state police is called Highway Patrol. In addition, there are police forces for each county and city as well. In Germany, most of the cities do not have their own police force, I mean ones with full police powers. I don't think any other country has so many different police agencies as USA, even accounting for the size difference.
Auch wenn es sich scheinbar 1:1 übersetzen lässt, sind die Aufgaben und Befugnisse der Highway Patrol und der Autobahnpolizei in kleinen aber feinen Details unterschiedlich. Die Highway Patrol erfüllt eher die Aufgaben, die in Deutschland von sogenannten Verkehrspolizisten ausgeführt werden, während die Autobahnpolizei hauptsächlich nur für die Belange auf und um die Autobahnen herum tätig ist. Ein Verkehrspolizist ist unter anderem auch für den ruhenden Verkehr zuständig, Sichtung bzw. Meldung (Absicherung) von Straßenschäden nach Unwettern, Verkehrsregelungen bei ausgefallenen Ampeln oder für die Verkehrserziehung von Kindern. Der Autobahnpolizist dagegen ist zB eher für die Absicherung von Staus, Abstandsmessungen, Lenkzeiten und Überladung von Güterkraftverkehr zuständig.
In Austria there's also a "Autobahnpolizei" (Autobahn police). And I am pretty sure in other euopean countries too.
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I am from Romania and I am living in Germany for 11 years. The German police it’s the best. Very professional and kind. Even if they give you a ticket, you can’t be mad of them. They explain you why so nice and calm that you understand and can’t be mad. It’s your fault.
I'm 44 and I only have two bad expiriences with police here in Germany. One was with a Policeman that was an asshole and his colleages had to calm him down....and one was with two police women...that stoped me while on a bike and allmost constructed a "me too" out of the stop because I lost balance towards one .... I had countless runins with the police, all nice and professional. Just these two were weird. The "Asshole" guy is still patroling my city... lol...I think he has anger issues...as he has all those accupuncture pressure points in his ear pierced and is pretty overwheigt... last time I saw his red glowing angry face beeing mad towards a cyclist in a pedestrian area...lol Most policemen will even help you get home or to a taxi if they see you walking around way too drunk where there is traffic late at night. At some point they consider you a "helpless person" so they act. One might not appreciate everytime that happens , but it's allways for your own good. It's important to know that the regular police(Landespolizei) is very well educated. While the Federal Police (trains, trainstations, borders, ports, airports, embassies, footballgames, protests, GSG9, Autobahn at the border) is mostly ex-militarry and people that left school after 10 class...They have more of a workingclass/army approach to policing, they even had tanks at least till 1990, or maybe even still have...I'm not sure. They are trained like the Gendarmery in France. While regular police(Landespolizei) has to actually study law at the university, just much less courses than a lawyer but they are still taught the same courses. You have to be sports and academically inclined to join the regular police, it's not easy to graduate.
@@kamran8698 I would be shocked beyond belief if more than a couple of percentages of German police were corrupt. There is no way you can convince me that 20% of them are corrupt.
Nur das die Autobahn für gewöhnlich weniger Menschen umbringt als die verrückten Jungs mit ihren Knarren dahinten 😂 Das was wir an Morden in einem Jahr haben, haben die Amis bereits im Januar ^^
Sry. That is BS! Almost everyone here have an licence! The only way to Lose ur licence forever is, if they catch u two or three times under influence of alcohol or drugs or Dangerous driving. Makes sense.........Indeed!
@@brummil Yeh well that kinda quiflies as 'failing to drive a car' but u need more screw ups than once. And then there is always the 'Idiotentest' (Moron Check?)
Don't forget that it takes generally 3 years of studying in Europe to become a police officer and usually longer if one wants to spealise in traffic police, water police, etc. Besides that, the psychological examination is tough and not that many applicants do pass those tests. Here in The Netherlands just one out of each thirteen applicants gets hired.
Same goes for "non-patrol" officers, like crime scene investigators and experts. Usually, one needs to go through basic/general officer course which takes usually 9-15 months, then specialization courses that take about 2-3 years. Then on top of that, You will need to be recognized by national authority as an expert with certification, which takes up to 5 years (this can be done simultaneously with officer training, and is usually encouraged). TLDR: You will become a bachelor in Law while training as officer. If you want to be someone specialized, thats another course and for expert, Master degree is a prerequisite + more testing.
I wish it was like that here in the US. Especially the psychological testing. Some cops get their badge and get big egos, and then proceed to illegally do things when they arrest someone. They won’t get punished though because of qualified immunity. They’ll get suspended with pay, which is like a free vacation, for a certain amount of time until what they did blows over, and then they’ll be back working at the same police force, or a different one. Now that’s not to say that there aren’t good cops in the US, there are, and there are a lot of them (our media really only highlights the bad ones, or the ones they think are bad due to politics), but you never know which one (good cop or bad cop) you’re going to get when you get pulled over.
@@Celisar1it depends on the country and in some cases even the state (in Germany you can become a police officer via training and or training plus studying, some states only offer training plus studying nowadays).
Thank you for letting us take part in your breakneck report! We're used to all of this, so it's nothing special and is logical and efficient within our structures. Just as weapons are normal for you culturally and in your structures. Both are dangerous, but somehow they are part of it. Thanks again. It is always an expansion of your own horizons to be able to look at your own normalities from a different perspective. And just as a tourist sees a foreign city completely differently than his own home, it is incredibly interesting how you experience our country. Especially since we have been becoming more and more dissatisfied and unhappy over the last few years. Sometimes you need someone to tell you clearly what a high level of complaining is going on here. ❤ ❤
@samialessi As I finally have the chance to react to a reaction of the original youtuber to a reaction video to his/her video (...) I have a question: Does Gibozz (this youtuber) get money for his reaction video or do you (samialessi) get the money as it is your content and not Gibozz's - he is just doing a little bit of blah blah blah (sorry Gibozz) to the video that cost you a lot of time and money to do?` Short: Who gets the revenues of this video: samiialessi or Gibozz?
In Germany we also have the water police who are responsible for rivers and lakes and we have the "Police at the German Bundestag" who are responsible in the buildings and on the grounds of the Bundestag and report directly to the President of the German Bundestag.
And we have a Bahnhofspolizei which is responsible for the areas in and around train stations. And we have a Flughafenpolizei which is responsible for the airports.
@@ich7746 Hast gerade eigentlich nur das gesagt was er auch gesagt hat, die Bahn- und Flughafenpolizei sind ein TEIL von der Bundespolizei halt nur genauer
@@smallego8068 Probably not but i've seen a statistic about the required hours till you can go on duty. America had like ~600 hours (4 months) of training while german is at 24 months and roughly 4250 hours. So i guess more training would help and probably would also reduce the times counties get sued xD
Plus: Compared to the US there is almost no gun violence in the European public because of very strict gun control laws. So police officers are able to focus on public service instead of needing to protect their own lives in every instance ...
@@smallego8068 in the swiss a lot of people have guns, many are even required to have them if i am not mistaken ... But the police is chilled like here.Sometimes it is also about how you approach the people, maybe also they know that guns make it worse and aint the solution. I probadly saw more worst case then regular stops in the US, but i can understand that you can get into self defense mode if they act like that. Also the education is very differently not only in time, the US police have usually lot more gun training then the german one even in the short time - deescalation isnt necessary for the training (which itself varies a lot). If the gun gets your tool number one, you also use it more likely.
Removing the debris is important, either the police, the highway services or the fire department (if there was an accident they were involved in) will take care of removing it. Keep in mind there may be people traveling at 200 kph or more - at that speed, not only is debris a serious hazard for someone driving over it, even if they are not damaged or crash, they may fling it at someone else while driving over it. For the same reason, objects on the road are often also reported in radio traffic advisories until they have been removed, so that people adjust speed and keep an eye out.
There are speed limits on german autobahn depending on situations, road condition, turns and such. Once i was going about 200kph and a speed limit came. I tried to brake but i had another car too close behind me, so i just removed my foot from the gas and went to the middle lane when there was no cars anymore. Suddenly a car pulled in front of me with the blinking sign "follow me" in the back - in german of course. Then the car that had been so close behind me proceeded on the left lane and the police car abandoned me and followed that car.
On Autbahn sections with high traffic density, we have speed limits. Like construction places, junctions, near big cities. But in NRW we have got a lot of traffic jams. Often you have no chance to drive 200 km/h safely cause of the high traffic density.
Police work in Germany and the US cannot be compared. In Germany, you should ideally have a high school diploma and training to become a police officer takes at least 3 years. In the US, any Moron can become a cop after a few months of training (they still don't know the laws or constitution, or don't care) and kill, bully and harass citizens. I have full confidence in our German police. When you see in some videos like in the US 10 or more cops arresting a shoplifter, it's just ridiculous. This sort of thing is handled by a patrol crew of two cops.
When you say, "In Germany, you should ideally have a high school diploma" - do you mean Abitur? The American "high school diploma" is the equivalent to a Gesamtschulabschluß. All American kids attend high school. It is not to be compared with the German Gymnasium.
@@darrylrotrock7816 Don't know the wording for english schools, but as long as you attended school and made it through these 9/10 mandatory years, you are able to become a police officer in germany. Fully agreeing than german office are trained better due to their longer training and the german model in general. Nevertheless, they are just individual with average intellectual ability. I remember when a friend made the applikation test. While the physical test were requiring some fitness, the intellectual test were only good for sorting out those people who are intellectual not capable of doing the job. One question in the english test was like "Tom gives Lilo a Bottle of water" Who received a Bottle of water? A) Lilo B) Loli C) Thomas D) Tom
@@darrylrotrock7816 Our Abitur is actually the same as a high school diploma, it takes 12-13 years and lets you access universities. The US has a completely different school system and doesn't have what we do.
Wenn man sein Wissen lediglich aus Videos der sozialen Medien bezieht, sollte man lieber zweimal überlegen ob man andere Länder und deren Polizeikräfte auf diese herablassende Art und Weise kritisiert! Der 'einfache' Polizist in den USA kommt im Aufgaben- und Verantwortungsbereich dem unseres Hilfspolizisten nahe. Und diese Ausbildung dauert bei uns lediglich 6-8 Wochen, an der Waffe 12 Wochen. Also noch erheblich kürzer als in den USA. Und ich glaube kaum, dass unserer nach seiner Ausbildung über ein besonders umfangreiches Wissen bezüglich der Ge- und Verbote, Verordnungen oder gar Gesetze verfügt. Die USA hatten/haben Schwierigkeiten überhaupt Leute zu finden, die diesen undankbaren Job machen wollen, also muss man seine Ansprüche nach unten schrauben. Genau so haben wir es gemacht. All das, was heute Hilfspolizisten (meist als Angestellte auf kommunaler Ebene) machen, haben vor einigen Jahren noch 'richtige' verbeamtete Polizisten erledigt. Die deutsche Polizei hatte früher auch weitaus strengere Vorgaben zum Aussehen und Auftreten ihrer Beamten: guter Realschulabschluss, Größe min. 1,75 m, Haarschnitt kurz, konservativ, minimale Kurzsichtigkeit (keine Kontaktlinsen), keine Tattoos, distanziertes Verhalten gegenüber der Bevölkerung usw. Nachdem auch bei uns keiner mehr den Job machen wollte sanken die Ansprüche, genau so wie in den USA. Ich weiß nicht, wann du das letzte Mal live die Verhaftung eines zugedröhnten, durchdrehenden Junkies miterlebt hast, der in einem Laden geklaut und randaliert hat. Aber da kommen zB in Frankfurt auch nicht nur locker, lässig 2 Polizisten. Da sind es dann auch gleich mal mehrere. Die USA haben ein enormes Problem mit scheinbar ganz 'normalen' Leuten, die schwer medikamentenabhängig sind und auch von jetzt auf gleich einfach komplett ausrasten. Dazu kommt, dass in 26 US-Staaten das Tragen einer VERDECKTEN Waffe erlaubt ist. Soll heißen: du weißt nie, ob der vor dir stehende, ganz normal aussehende Typ nicht doch ne Waffe dabei hat ... bis er austickt und sie zieht. Unter diesen Voraussetzungen würde unsere Polizei (schon zur Eigensicherung) genau so reagieren und agieren, wie die amerikanischen Polizisten es machen. Meiner Meinung nach vollkommen nachvollziehbar und verständlich.
6:50 the "NO alcohol" rule is NOT ONLY age related, but related how long you have your drivers license. While technicly most get their DL with 18 then this would mean no alcohol till 21 when driving. But if you get your DL for example with 25 then it would be till 27.
yes, you have a trialing period of 3 years. any major infraction would make you go to the idiot test and start the trialing time over. also the 0.5 alcohol level is the absolute maximum, any alcohol level is too much if you are showing signs in traffic. field sobriety tests á la walking on the line isn't something that really happens in Germany. Most commonly you'd get a breathilizer and peeing in a cup or blood samples would only be taken if the driver refuses a check.
@@hellboy19991 I wish we did that here in The Netherlands. There is a 220 Ug/l limit in place for 'experienced' drivers (read: you have your license for longer than 5 years) and a 88 ug/l limit for beginners/learner drivers. < I edited this as I stated 100 Ug/l first, which was incorrect) What I don't understand is why most of the police in the USA put up with the time-consuming field sobriety tests while a roadside breathalyser will have people without any alcohol in their system on their way in no time. Urine-tests are not used here yet for drug-testing, we have mountswab-tests to test for the presence of controlled substances in someones system.
To avoid a misunderstanding, when she said special police force, she meant a special department of state police. While there are police in Germany on federal, state, and town levels, the state police handle everything people usually imagine when thinking about police work. Federal police handle the border, airports, trains and train stations, federal buildings and criminal investigations for crimes that are not local to one state. Town and city police handle parking and public order (non-criminal).
It’s a specialised training question. All Policemen are specialised in some way in germany. Traffic police would never come to someone's home to make an arrest. These guys have driving training and deescalation training, a lot of psychology training to effectively deal with possible conflicts while actively preventing violence in their case.
Retired police officer from the Netherlands. We used to have a highway patrol, but not anymore. Police now control all highways within their jurisdiction. You are free to patrol highways or city roads. You are always ready for 911 calls
But it's funny that for quite a while (don't know if it's still the case today) you would see a distinct difference between most police cars on motorway-patrol and those used for 'ordinary' work. The motorway cars would be Volvo stationwagons or at least some elongated vehicle with 1 single rotating beacon on the rear-left of the vehicle compared to most of the standard police cars which would usually be smaller and would hold a full lightbar on top, pair with extra flashers on the grille of the car.
I'm now in my early 50s and have traveled all over Europe, parts of Asia, Australia and Africa, and have seen a little bit of Michigan. Actually, I had never experienced unfriendly police officers anywhere. The most blatant ones were actually in the USA, where as a driver in a check you are immediately suspected of being a serious criminal or violent. At least that's how it feels from a European perspective. Because here they say, you don't have to keep your hands on the steering wheel and you can also get out. In Germany I only met very polite police officers. At least polite and correct, sometimes very humorous and humane. Almost like I know them from Scotland. 👍🏼😂 I met the absolutely nicest police officers, who even show you the way and drive ahead and give you good tips for your stay, in Indonesia, Scotland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. I am very happy that I never have to be afraid of the police. Even if I did something wrong. Police in Europe are never actually bossy or dominant. They are correct and keep everything in order. But I never experienced any personal feelings of power here. And that is a piece of peace for me. There are countless countries in which police represent anger and corruption, and perhaps even great injustice and arbitrariness. There you are not a citizen, but prey. I'm thankfull. To all the friendly police officers in the world: THANK YOU! 🙏🏻 So we love you and are glad that you are doing this job. 🥰🙏🏻👍🏼😃👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🚓
You should come to Bulgaria. You can have some very unpleasant police interactions especially with the traffic police. That being said, things are improving quite a lot as people are becoming increasingly intolerant to police abuse. There is still a lot of room for improvement.
@@DMG380 I have a feeling a tourist is always treated a bit differently (obviously depending on country/continent it can be worse or better than the usual citizens of the country)
In the US lax training and requirements does not eliminate those applying to be police officers who may just be there to power-trip or act a fool. European training and liscensing requirements generally root out these unprofessional types before they get a badge. Not so in the US.
@@DMG380 I travelled many times in Bulgaria in the last 10 years and all the cops were polite and professional. Yes, 20 years ago I was always prepared with a few 10 euro bills in my pocket kids in case. But, to be true, I never had to bribe a police officer in Bulgaria.
What nobody talks about is there is actually a target speed (recommended speed) of 130 km/h for the autobahn and if you go over it significantly you need to make sure that you are not doing it recklessly. there are many incidences where people were arrested and prosecution was stopped, because they made sure to drive at a time when the way was free and and extra low traffic was occuring.
Since it is more of a insurance topic, since you need to adjust your speed anytimes to the traffic conditions. So driving by a jam on the right lane with 110 is also reckless to make an easy example. With above 130 the conclusion you where driving to fast is easier to make, but you can not drive 130 all the time and are fine.
We also have "hidden" police on the Autobahn. Police in "civilian" vehicels not marked as police cars but equiped with mobile speed radar and video camera. They will start following you when speeding, measuring your speed, recording all as a proof on video. Afterwards they will try to stop you and even show you the video to teach you a lesson about your mistakes. So beside stationary radar controll you can never be sure not to be caught when driving too fast in speed limited areas.
In addition to that, they will also measure the distance between vehicles and stop you, if you don't keep safe distances to other vehicles. There are minimal distances you have to keep to allow you to not crash into the vehicle in front of you, if that is forced to make an emergency braking. That distance is calculated according to the speed you are driving. As a rule of thumb you can just take your speed in kph and divide that by 2, and get the minimum distance in meters. E.g. if you drive 100kph you have to keep 50meters distance to the vehicle in front of you, if you drive 150 you need 75 meters. Also trucks have to keep a minimum distance of 50 meters IIRC, regardless of their speed.
@@sgxbotBut still the German cops hide in a way. The US cops hide, so you can't see them, the Germans hide in a way, you can see them, but can't see they are cops, until they want you to see it. So it comes down to the same result, you can be surprised by a cop stopping you for driving too fast.
@@livinghypocrite5289 This! Its even more important. The speeding tickets penalty got increast the past years. But "drängeln" (which is the term to drive to close to the vehicle bevor you), will get u a heavy penalty which often includes a temporaray driving ban
@@fdk7014And because the places without speed limits are the ones that are relatively straight, have good visibility and the street is in good shape - so it's considered safe enough not to have a limit.
@@fdk7014 What he means is that there are sections on the highway that has a limit and that's where most accidents happen. There is a reason for the speed limit in those sections.
Notice the order on the highway: tracks usually drive on the right, everyone else in the middle and the left line is reserved for the fastest cars. It is common throughout Europe, but Germans excel at it.
German police not only take a urine tests (from men) right on the Autobahn, I had to make one at night in the middle of a city, going to a tree (to hide a little bit) and pissing in a little cup.
You don't have to do such an urin test in public. The german police offers this to you. If you refuse, the police can force you to go to the policestation for a bloodtest.
Informier dich bitte mal richtig, bevor du hier über Deutschland was erzählst mir deiner Ukraine Flagge 😂😂 . Habt ihr bei euch nicht genug zu tun . Dann ab @@NoS4INT
I like our police in Germany, always friendly, always professional and always human. I've never had any problems with the police and I wasn't always a good citizen. 😂
Well, not always xd I have been harassed by cops before and they did threaten a friend of mine until she started crying, but shit like that is very very rare
There are bad cops in Germany. There are police officers who under stress do not keep as cool and professional as they should. There are members of the police with, hm, "peculiar" political views or biases against certain groups. They are humans, their bosses are humans. It's just not possible to have a large groups of humans all squeky clean. But all in all, I think the police in Germany does a very good job, and all the police officers I ever had to deal with personally were fine people. My empathy for all those who had different experiences... this isn't meant as an excuse. But we could do a lot worse.
@@GroffiliJupp. In Berlin kann es dir auf jeden Fall passieren das ein Polizist mal etwas lauter bzw. grob wird. Ist mir persönlich aber zum Glück noch nie passiert.
@@cantinadudes salute to german police. I like how respectful they are and very composed. I saw one on the street raised his voice to someone shortly after the young guy badly reacted to them without respect, which i also understand the police but they are generally NOT aggressive or abusive due to their extensive trainings included psychological..
6:15 to 6:27, if you're German and yet a bit faint-hearted, please skip that scene! She does something incredible here. She commits a sacrilege. She ... I cannot say it, it's too cruel, but I must tell you the naked truth: She takes a sip of Jägermeister AND SPITS IT OUT! Deliberately! -- Ah, if I had my way: Germany has so many medieval castles, with so many nice little dungeons, and sometimes fully equipped and operable torture chambers, where she could spend some time on bread and Jägermeister and [torture details deleted] until she repents.
That's because it's in promille (translates to 220 microgram of alcohol per liter of exhaled air), a value almost everyone knows or should know: roadside breathalyzer devices do not give a super-accurate reading of the amount of alcohol in your system most of the time and (in The Netherlands at least) always require a follow-up at the station, where 2 samples of breath are taken on a more elaborate machine where (I think) the lowest reading will be the one used in your prosecution. During very large roadside tests (usually along the motorway when 100% checks are performed), this machine is usually present at the site and thus not require you to go to a police station. Roadside breathalysers in The Netherlands as far as I know do not show a value in promilles, but only an 'A' (=Aangehouden > Arrested) or 'P' (Passeren > Pass). Usually, when you didn't consume alcohol and you get a roadside breathalyser test performed, the device will beep the OK signal in seconds after providing a sample of breath. Thus it usually is a bad sign when the test-device starts to take its time to show a result.
Cops will sometimes use a laser gun to measure stretches of straight roads. For example, leaving the Autobahn at Burgau and driving towards Mindelheim, you will drive around a long left corner and follow a very straight road to a roundabout. That stretch is often measured, and bikers love to speed on it. As soon as they come around the corner, they are readable on the radar, and at the roundabout a cop will pull them from traffic, leading to a citation. On the Autobahn itself they have cameras and sometimes drones to do this job. The Rettungsgasse sadly only works when everybody helps to make it work. It is very common for awful people to take advantage and use the alley, or follow the emergency vehicles. This will result in a fine of over 200 €s, 2 points in Flensburg and in special cases, 1 month of driving prohibition.
The reason why the POs were cool is because they're trained and professional. Just to be a basic PO in most EU countries requires a 2 YEAR course, and to be a driver in a traffic division is usually another year. Most US POs have done a 10 week course and know nothing about professionalism most of the time.
The reason they're so strict with truck drivers is that from a truck driver's perspective all the want to do is drive as much as possible, but that's not safe. So it is very regulated. That way drivers don't have to justify stops along the way to both customer and employer. Everyone knows that they have to. Germany has huge amounts of freight passing through it and also its own import/export and its own transport. Both because of the geography of Europe and because they're responsible for a lot of trade on their own. It makes sense for them to have thorough protocols to deal with it.
Hello, I think the German police have developed a good system that protects against corruption or criminal acts within the police force. Unlike in the USA, for example, there are actually only service groups in the police everywhere. These are several police officers who then form patrol car crews in pairs. In Germany, there is no such thing as a permanent patrol partner, as is often seen in American films and series, with whom you work together on a daily basis. This fact alone minimizes the risk of a police officer possibly going off the rails, as they are always working with different colleagues. They not only ensure each other's safety, but also see and assess each other's actions and measures. Misconduct would quickly become apparent and would certainly not be tolerated. But this also serves to protect the individual officers, as misconduct can be punished more easily and quickly by the police counterpart during checks.
Autobahn Polizei translates into Highway Police, which is for you Americans the equivalent of a State Trooper or Highway Patrol. It blows my mind when people say, you have Police for your Autobahn and totally forget America has the very same thing lol.
Becoming any type of cop in Germany is conisdered the same as earning a four year university degree. and the entire program takes near that amount of time.
As a 57 yr old Canadian I can't complain about our cops, I've been pulled over a lot in my life and I can't remember any cop being on a full blown power trip,most treat you with respect if you treat them with respect.No cop ever come up to my car or bike with hand on their gun let alone a drawn weapon.the tickets or warnings I've received I deserved them.NOW I'm not saying there aren't any bad, corrupt or cops on power trips here,most are just doing the jobs they were hired to do.
8:30 this is a mistranslation. his exact words were that "traffic accidents a lot of the time have something to do with too much speed" he did not say "are caused by excessive speed"
To clear up some things: 1. We do have a lot of speed limits on our highways for several reasons (noise protection, dangerous curves/entries/exits and last but not least bored planning officials that just have fun putting up signs on our streets for no reason) it's just that we don't have a general limit so there are parts where you are expected to drive 130 km/h but there is no hard limit and you can theoretically go as fast as you can as long as you drive in a safe manner. And even if there is no limit most of the time you got stupid idiots pulling to the left lane with 100 km/h or even less not even looking in their mirror so most of the time you can't really drive that fast anyway or if you do you constantly need to brake so you waste a lot of gas and cause unnecessary polution. 2. We don't have a dedicated police force for the highway that's just outright wrong. The state police is doing the job but indeed there are some dedicated teams that focus on highway patrol. Besides the police we also got the BALM (formerly BAG) which is the authority responsible for logistics and they also do controls but only on truck drivers (cargo security, driving and resting periods, speeding, etc.). And in border areas we also got federal police and customs involved who are performing spot-check border controls (smuggling, illegal immigration, ...). 3. We don't have officers sitting at the side of the street because traffic is flowing so fast that it would be really dangerous to interrupt the traffic. Instead we have stationary and temporary radar control combined with undercover cops on the road using a system called "ProViDa" which is using on-board high speed cameras that measure the distance to the car in front and combine it with the speedometer of the police car to calculate the speed. 4. We don't have dedicated pull-over sections at the side of the highway, those are just regular rest areas that are being used by the police for inspection measures. Police just splits up in two teams where one team is pulling over cars redirecting them to the parking spot while another team is waiting to do the actual inspection. Also police doens't need any reason to pull somebody over not even suspicion, they just do routine controls and they do that especially in border areas since all our borders are open and there is no stationary border control anymore. 5. It's not like we don't have any bad cops out here and I know a case from friends where police was trying to completely make up a high speed chase (most likely to receive promotion) and luckily the judge was able to quickly identify and completely destroy the lies of the 2 cops. But it's probably much harder to become a police officer in germany in the first place (you need to pass multiple entrance tests and do 3 years of training to become a regular officer and you even need to study to get into higher positions) and we always have teams of at least 2 officers and you need to write paperwork for every of your actions so abuse of power or corruption is much harder to hide and much less common.
Police in Germany are often deescalating situations. Just be respectful and they will be correct too, though you will still get a sentence if you do a crime. If it is just a minor thing like exceeding the speed limit a bit (say 5mph) they also are allowed to give you just a warning.
For the maximum of 0.5 per mill alcohol allowed on German streets must be added, that this only applies when you haven't had an accident. With an accident the maximum without a fine or law suit is down by 0.3 per mill.
And only if you had your license for a certain amount of time, I think it's 2 years or until you're 21, whichever is later? In that case 0.0 per mill regardless of accident.
Also in Europe, cops have more power than in the US. No amendements bullcrap or AM I BEING DETAINED bullcrap. A cop asks you for your ID, you have to give it, no questions asked, even if it's a routine check.
@@arnodobler1096*19 16 for each state, Bundespolizei (federal police), Bundeskriminalamt (federal criminal police office) and Polizei beim deutschen Bundestag (Police at the German Bundestag).
Readout after the Schnapps was 0.03. That seems to indicate percent. Looks like German law actually specifies units of "grams of alcohol per liter of blood" and, as Meggin stated in the video, the limit actually is defined as 0.5.
Some police officers here in Germany checked me: speed control, cutting a taxi in the city, my dog got loose, checking the motorcycle when it started on the Nürburgring. That wasn't a problem because the police didn't expect a problem and I just wasn't paying attention sometimes. Don't be stupid to the police, then they won't be stupid to you.
They mostly are, if you yourself are respectful to them. Just once had a cop having a bad day. Didn't help that we started with a misunderstanding. That one wasn't that friendly or nice but still professional enough to let me go, once he realized I didn't do anything wrong, which he suspected because of the misunderstanding.
Been stopped once for speeding here in Sweden and was treated very politely. However I was shown a non-refutable evidence of my criminal action and asked to sign (on a cell phone) that I admitted to the action. Like some have noted already, it takes some 3-4 years to become a policeman in Sweden and you specialize in a certain field of police work. Btw. two officers are always in the patrol cars.
The German autobahn does not have speed limits, but these are only small rural stretches between towns and cities. When in crowded urban areas, the autobahn does impose speed limits. And rules that are ignored my police in the US, like crusing in the passing lane when not passing, are strictly enforced on the autobahn, precisely because of the high speeds and danger of slow moving traffic in the passing lane. The autobahn is not a lawless place, but one of the most heavily enforced road networks in the world.
Hahaha police n Germany is there to serve, protect and catch 😂😂 salute to them for helping and protecting me and my family in Germany for a little over 13years. I ❤️ german police and the germans. Germanyis my second home
My daughter is training to be a police officer. She also had to drive with the highway police. They were called to an operation and a pregnant woman gave birth to her baby there.
if you are in germany, it might happen that you get controlled or stoped by the Police, but its nothing dangeours about this, they often just talk and ask you things, to find out if you are drunk or under drugs while driving, if your vehicle is safe and stuff. I once talk to a forein woman who was so afraid that the police will hit and hurt her son when they was pulled over the first time that she starts crying and her son who lived here for a longer time, had to confess and promise her that nothing bad happens. So i just can immagen how bad the expiriences are that people from other countrys have with the police, but here in germany its nice and respectfull (ok depends on your behaviour, if you bully them they will be more strict to you obviously, but if you are nice and calm they will be too)
The problem in US is that 28 week traing alowes every savage person to get to police role . There is no quality selection and that is a huge problem . The biggest problem is that in US AND UK government are afraid of educated skilled people.
Autobahn Police is just equivalent to State Troopers basically. Austria, a neighboring country of germany has an even more separate branch called the LVA (Landesverkehrsabteilung, literally: State Traffic Division) which is responsible for all traffic related things.
that is soooo typical american .... first question is " are you afraid of guns" ... this is Germany with modern weapon laws, not the antique wild west american style
Keep in mind that when she said that everything from an alcohol level of 0.5 and up is banned she was talking about 0.5‰, which is 0.05%. If you're over this you are committing a traffic violation. If you are over 1.1‰ (0.11%) you are committing a crime, which is punished harder. If you're over 1.6‰ (0.16%) or it's your second time being caught deiving under the influence of alcohol you need to pass a psych eval (Medizinisch-Psychologische Untersuchung) to be allowed to get a new license.
Did you hear what she say? "How cool" Yes all police from europe are much more polite than US officers.. we dont fear them even if we break traffic law..
The UK has motorway police they drive BMW's, Audi's Volvos and other top branded cars not all marked as being police. One thing that Euro police are hot on through most if not all Euro countries is lane hogging. The strict rule it out side fast lane is for overtaking only not for cruising on, so overtake and get back over.
There is no obligation to agree with alcohol breath test, neither they are allowed to force you to take part in tests like tipping fingers or such. Just saying
In most police jurisdictions in the USA safety is not the first priority. Revenue is the first priority to justify their existence. In some places in the USA revenue is the only priority. In Germany it appears that safety is the only priority.
well for the urine test, you arent forced to do it right there and then out in the open, there is always a toilet near but if there is a serious risk that its over the limit there could be a policemen or policewomen nearby (depending on the gender of yourself) who looks that you dont mix something other in it or switch it with someone else Also yes you can get drunk by alcohol in the air, thats why she tested it with only alcohol in her mouth Here in germany its common, if youre nice to them, they are the friendliest people you get, if you go against them or obstruct simple task, they can get rough, but not nearly as rough as in the US
The Policing has one big difference to the US. Here you hardly need to worry about weapons where in the US you can buy weapons in a wal mart. Thats crazy Police in the states are fighting a war
once upon a time in the 1990ties the german highway police had some officers killed when they pulled cars over on the autobahn. The driver reached for his cell-phone which was a .22 pistol and shot to kill. the Dutch police had intercepted a whole case of cell-phones which turned out to be converted to .22 pistols, courtesy of the bulgarian secret police. Dutch police informed their collegues in Germany and elsewhere. The german highway patrol fora time approached all pulled over cars with their weapons drawn and ready, and you better keep your hands on the wheel or else!!
In my 30 years of driving mororized vehicles in Germany i had approximately 5-7 encounters with german police. None were serious issues. One was funny, as my girlfriend and i were in my car with nothing on but our underwear, because our clothes were soaking wet after hours of dancing in the disco. So at around 3am on our way home we were stopped by police for a regular traffic control. I handed him the documents and explained the situation. He said with a smile "Wouldn't be too favourable if you had to do a walking test". I said "Well, i'd would prefer to avoid that". We laughed and he wished us a good drive home. 😁
1st: you don't have to provide urin "right on the strip"... but if you do it could safe you some issues... well or you deliver some issues... but if you refuse your blood can be drawn (a judge will permit it if there are signs for substance abuse) 2nd: issue with police in the US has 2 main issues - often they have a mendatory quota to solve with their local prison (which is absurd and leeds to false accusations) and the other elephant in the room is that everyone could carry a gun (of course people are on edge if they have to fear for their own life on a trafic stop and are overly aggressive the more time they spend in their job... human nature)
European Countries’ police forces usually never go out alone. Patrols are always composed of two individuals. Policing alone is considered very dangerous both for the policeman and for the public, because it limits the options available to the policeman: imagine stopping a car with more than one person on board who are not compliant, the policeman might be forced to resort to deadly force just because he/she is about to be overwhelmed.
Every town in America has it's own sheriff and deputies. What are you on about "Special Autobahn Police" ? The USA also has highway patrols. German police have at least double the IQ of American deputies and six times the training.
You can always refuse a Urin test on the roadside but that basically guarantees that you spend the rest of the day on the police station getting tested there wich is a lot more effort than simply doing it then and there. You can also demand a blood test. It’s a open secret that normally they will only test your Urin for one substance (I think for budget reasons). So if you’re high but manage to convince them you drank instead or the other way around, you might get lucky… I‘m not sure how it’s going to change now that weed is legal since testing for the stuff doesn’t have a reliable system like alcohol.
I literally just watched 2 videos where American cops drove at excess speed in built up areas, one travelling at 130mph & t-boned a car killing a 14 month old baby & one who killed a pedestrian on a crosswalk. Non of them to emergencies.
The driver has the choice to either do a voluntary urine test right at the spot or get a blood sample taken by a doctor at the police station. That option is not voluntary any more.
