Bavarian Police

Bavarian Police
Bayerische Polizei
Uniform patch
Police badge
Agency overview
Formed29 June 1946
Employees41,400 (2019)
Annual budget€4.789 billion (2025)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionBavaria (Germany)
Size70,550.19 km2
Population13,003,252 (2018)
General nature
Operational structure
Overseen byBavarian Ministry of the Interior
HeadquartersMunich, Bavaria, Germany
Agency executive
  • Wilhelm Schmidbauer, Landespolizeipräsident
Website
www.polizei.bayern.de

The Bavarian Police (German: Bayerische Polizei) is the state police force of the German state of Bavaria under the umbrella of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. It has approximately 33,500 armed officers and roughly 8,500 other civilian employees.