Security is the guarantee of the security of objects by guard. It aims at it off, the impairment of the function, the destruction or the appropriation of an object by disturbers to prevent criminal ones or enemies. The serviceability and operability of the object are to remain received.

Nationally (usually militarily), economically and privately used (residences, housing developments ("housing AREAs" are protected)) Objects. Protection objects can be: Building, plants (like ammunition camps or KKW) or large vehicles of all kinds (warships). Also money transportation or Castor transports rank among objects.

Cause for a security are concrete reference points or an abstract danger estimate. After the events 11 September 2001 applies all diplomatic agencies of the United States of America as endangered.

Security is reached particularly by the following preventive measures:

• Bestreifung
• Observation
• Vorkontrolle (e.g. road block)
• Positions
• Inlet control
• Identifications (if necessary with file alignment)
• Searches of persons or things (vehicles, carried articles)

The Bestreifung is normally accomplished by university-formed security forces. The kind and the temporal operational readiness level of the guard can be situation-dependently gradated. Among the security also structural and technical mechanisms and devices rank such as barrier, antitank barrier, video monitoring and bullet-proof glass, altogether all measures of the technical plant safety device.

Security becomes from the military, from which police ensures and from security agencies.

Security with the military

In the range of the German Federal Armed Forces own federations are responsible for the field of the security with each branch of service (army, Air Force and navy).

At the Air Force this is the security relays.

Protection of federal organs by the federal police

The federal police protects in agreement with Lands Berlin and Baden-Wuerttemberg out police view the protection-needy constitutional bodies of the federation as well as Federal Ministries from disturbances and dangers, which could impair the execution of their tasks.

These are in detail:

• Office of the President of the Federal republic
• Office of the Federal Chancellor
• Foreign Office
• Federal Ministry of the inside
• Federal Ministry of the law
• Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe

The preventive measures cover there among other things:

• Control of the person and vehicle traffic,
• Protection from possible dangers by strip operational readiness level.

See also

• Security, public security
• Guard, guard service
• Protection of individuals, integrated management system

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