Passport forgers, smugglers, drug dealers, terrorists and international criminals sought - that is the world of Chief Superintendent Rolf eel (57) and its 250 federal police officers.
Their locations: 100 Lower Rhine-Holland border crossings, the Airport Weeze and 300 km railway with 38 stations. Also on the Rhine, his "border" on the road.
The officials, who were formerly under the name "Federal" at the barricades on the move, in times of open borders has long been a powerful police force. And when they go on patrol, they often are not alone - with the colleagues of Holland "Royal Netherlands" will work hand in hand.
"Whenever it is necessary we act internationally. We must pursue observed in the neighboring country, to stop and arrest suspects, "said spokesman Thomas Geurtz.
EXPRESS accompanied the "frontier" on a normal working day: "With what is not true," said a federal police officer. The patrol sits behind an old Golf from Mönchengladbach, forcing him to stop. The rider (62) comes straight from the Netherlands, was illegally entered and wants to have only proceed ".
On the German side Rolf eel heads all operations in the border area. He is the master of the "bug", because this is the call name of his search vehicles.
Your balance sheet in 2008: 364 illegal entries, 559 stay violations, 4,000 "customers were" on drugs with 20 pounds, 72 and 755 had weapons it went "black" in trains of the railway. False passports, stolen cars and looking for international determine the daily lives of federal police along the border.
