Much has changed in local police work between 1971 and 2021. But some things have remained almost the same.
The Poing police station is 50 years old.
There cannot be a big festival this year because of Corona.
But there was a lively exchange of colleagues.
We were there.
As is often the case in his long professional life, Kurt Tschauner is well prepared. He dug out an old, heavy Triumph typewriter from his private "reservation room" and brought it with him to Poing. There, where he recently met with acting colleagues from the police station for a casual conversation about the history of the department. The service that officially went into operation on December 1, 1971; so exactly 50 years ago.
The 72-year-old also has a few other police equipment of his time with him.
A rubber baton, for example, whose signs of use cannot be overlooked.
Often, affirms the police officer, who is known and valued in the entire district, but has long since left, that he was not deployed.
Such a part has long since ceased to be part of the standard equipment of Bavarian police officers.
With the device one could inflict very considerable injuries on a person opposite, said Tschauner.
Kurt Tschauner (72) brings old utensils such as a rubber baton or leather jacket
In addition to two old service hats, the Tschauner Kurt, who lives right behind the district boundary in the municipality of Pfaffing, also has an original police leather jacket with him. His. A really hard part. So difficult that young (current) colleagues like Simon Barnerßoi or Bianca Nahodyl look a little incredulous. Somehow it seems difficult to imagine doing the service with it.
Anton Kapsner, on the other hand, has a lot of memories in his luggage. On March 7, 1966, he once started his service in Ebersberg. And even a young man saw how a troop was being put together to start in the new office in Poing. Poing, because it was once the municipality that was able to provide the police with a new building as accommodation, in contrast to Parsdorf or Markt Schwaben, as the 77-year-old remembers.
His training period and that of many colleagues who actually started their job in Poing at the beginning of December 1971 was not very long.
Kapsner was 27 at the time, a police master and already a service group leader, which is briefly called DGL in police jargon.
"At that time I was probably the youngest one with such a position far and wide," says Kapsner, who lived in Landsham for a long time, but has his home between Wasserburg and Rosenheim in the community of Schechen.
Close colleagues were, for example, Erich Spitzl or Rudi Hochhardt, the latter for many years as head of department and immediate predecessor of the current PI boss Helmut Hintereder.
Young people who were somehow thrown into the deep end
Hintereder is also the one who brought this talkative group of colleagues together these days.
Brought together for a casual exchange between two generations of police officers, old and young, who have one thing in common: a direct connection to PI Poing.
The nice thing about it: All of Anton Kapsner's service group are still alive;
different from other teams.
Something that is why Kurt Tschauner and Co. are very happy.
Tschauner proudly reports that there are still regular get-togethers and joint activities.
Almost like when you went skiing together, went on company outings, celebrated summer festivals in the Ebersberger Forest and played football together.
At a supposedly not bad level, you have to believe it.
In any case, it would have been enough for the A-Class, they say.
The troop that started work on Markomannenstrasse in December 1971 were young.
In Ebersberg, something like the parent office of Poinger PI, it was normal that the young hoppers were always sent to the field service at the side of an experienced colleague.
“In Poing we were suddenly on our own,” recalls Kurt Tschauner.
As well as some, as he says, heavy use right at the beginning.
Tschauner set standards as a traffic educator.
An estimated 25,000 young people in the district have learned the ABCs of road traffic rules under his direction.
At the age of 26 he took on this special job, and in the end he was one of the oldest traffic educators in the Free State.
A high level of awareness also meant a high level of respect
This activity always brought Tschauner a great advantage: It was known to many. And was respected. Two things that obviously have to do with each other. In addition, his generation of police knew how to embody the kind of policeman who was treated with a certain respect.
But there was also the fact that in the past it was much easier in the field to resolve conflicts in a relaxed manner and by creating a certain relaxed atmosphere before they developed into tangible disputes. Today, according to the 72-year-old, everything is much more complicated from his point of view. Disrespect, insults or even physical attacks on officials have become more commonplace. An assessment that Bianca Nahodyl shares. The woman from Dachau has not been in Poing for very long, but has already experienced a lot in this regard in the few months in Poing. For example, it was only on the day before the old-meets-young event in the fire brigade building in Poing (they moved here because of Corona) that someone tried to record conversations with colleagues with a tape recorder.
The fact that police operations would like to be filmed by protagonists and posted on the Internet has long since ceased to be anything special. In order to get more security for everyone involved and also to be able to document processes neutrally and honestly in the event of a dispute, the so-called Bodycam was finally purchased. Around 80 percent of colleagues also use it, estimates Barnerßoi, who, as a Poinger, has been allowed to serve in Poing for six years now. Acting as a local in a team is, in his opinion, neither an advantage nor a disadvantage. According to the 32-year-old, it is undisputed in his experience that the body cam has a certain deterrent effect.
At the same time, he is addressing a topic that for Tschauner and Kapsner is something like science fiction: It's about technology that is constantly being developed.
Anton Kapsner explains that his earlier tools and work equipment were a typewriter, later a teleprinter (initially only in Ebersberg), radio devices that were often susceptible to interference, an emergency telephone, an alarm telephone with direct access to some local banks and a burglar alarm system to the some companies were affiliated.
Until 2009, emergency calls were made directly to the respective police stations, since then everything has been sent directly to Ingolstadt.
Bodycam protection for everyone
The biggest difference between 1971 and 2021: A normal accident record 50 years ago was still associated with up to six breakdowns. Reports with typing errors meanwhile stole the nerves of one or the other colleague at 5 o'clock in the morning. Many of the copies made ended up in the statistics, Kapsner remembers. Kurt Tschauner, on the other hand, used a so-called accident map on which the special traffic incidents in the service area were marked with colored needles. Incidentally, the blue needle stood for an alcohol-related accident.
In contrast, the evaluation of accident data is not much different today. But thanks to digital technology, it has become much easier and more targeted. Today, reports Helmut Hintereder, with a few clicks of the mouse you can filter out things that used to take a lot more time. In any case, Simon Barnerßoi is happy to be able to use a PC instead of the old Triumph today.
Police work seems particularly relieved when it comes to searches.
The generation Kapsner and Tschauner, Spitzl and Hochhardt, for example, still knows the wanted book.
“It looked almost like a phone book, but it was a list of wanted people,” says Tschauner.
It was updated quarterly and was often present when colleagues went on patrol and checked people.
According to today's standards, the wanted hits were rather small, Kapsner dares to make a cautious comparison.
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The police station in Poing today
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At that time, he says, it was already possible to compare the wanted books with the register of a local health insurance company.
Something that is completely impossible today for reasons of data protection.
In any case, the wanted book did not survive as it existed in 1971.
The methods of tracking down wanted people have become much more sophisticated.
With his service I-Phone, it is possible to scan in driver's licenses or ID cards and quickly get information from a database that is important on the spot, says Barnerßoi.
In the future, if his boss Hintereder dares to look into the future, the classic parking ticket may no longer exist, but administrative offenses themselves will be created electronically.
Just like the emergency vehicles are being digitalized more and more.
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Poing's police building from the early stages in the 1970s
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What has changed tremendously over 50 years is the willingness to use violence against civil servants.
Kapsner, who spent 16 years in Poing and later worked in Erding: "Attacks on the police used to be a taboo, today it seems to be a problem not only for young people, but for the entire population." One of the main reasons why the two of them Police veterans, if they could choose again, would rather work as a police officer again in their time than they do today.
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Memories of earlier times: Erich Spitzl, Kurt Tschauner and Rolf Hochhardt at a Christmas party
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