Re: POLIZEI

>This also applies to the "Verfassungsschutz" 'Constitutional
Protection'
>tasked with (more or less secretly) gathering information about
terrorists,
>radicals, subversives, etc. They are not police forces and cannot make
>arrests. Any usable evidence they gather has to be handed to the normal
>police and prsecutors.

Fascinating. An exact counterpart of ASIO (Australian Security
Intelligence
Organisation).