Bruce Allen Scharlau PhD thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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Computers, armoured cars and bullet-proof windows do not apprehend
and protect people from
terrorists without people to analyse the
situations, and make recommendations concerning improvements. Spending
figures do not seem out of the ordinary for the category of public
security, but perhaps the figures for personnel in public security are
different.
Table 6.2 shows several points. One is that the bold figures
highlight a rise in personnel which peaks between 1975 and 1980, after
which they decline in all areas except social security. These
retrospectively rounded off figures published by the Federal Statistical
Office since 1983 highlight large increases in public security between
1970 and 1975, after which its growth slaws in 1980 and then falls. The
non-bold figures,
those published contemporaneously by the Federal
Statistical Office, shaw a much slower growth rate for public security
between 1970 and 1975, the formative years of West German terrorism.
Table 6.3
Personnel in the Security Apparatus I 1960-1980
II
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Year BGSl 1970 BKA2 1970 BfV3 1970 IDS/ 1970 Public 1970 Percent-
=100 =100 =100 BKA/ =100 Emplay- =100 age of
I II III BfV(IV) ees (V) IV in V
1960 17,530 82 419 35 523 48 18427 78 211,397 69 8.7
1965 20,338 95 548 45 920 85 21796 92 286,771 94 7.6
1968 19,101 89 578 48 998 92 20677 87 296,016 97 7.0
1969 20,673 97 933 77 1016 93 22622 96 300,749 99 7.5
1970 21;370 100 1211 100 1088 100 23669 100 305,096 100 7.8
1971 22,129 104 1529 126 1186 109 24844 105 312,592 102 7.9
1972 22,557 106 1876 155 1259 116 25692 109 317,957 104 8.1
1973 23,309 109 2062 170 1459 134 26830 113 319,263 105 8.4
1974 23 /841 112 2212 183 1559 143 27612 117 319,995 105 8.6
1975 24,544 115 2237 185 1585 146 28366 120 321;959 106 8.8
1976 24,849 116 2424 200 1623 149 28901 122 319,672 105 9.0
1977 25,650 120 2545 210 (1660) 153 29855 126 314,173 103 9.5
1978 26,215 123 3122 258 (1700) 156 31037 131 315,173 103 9.8
1979 25,869 121 3189 263 (1740) 160 30798 130 316,256 104 9.7
1980 26,305 123 3339 276 (1780) 164 31424 133 316,229 104 9.9
1 Calculated figures for all positions in BGS
2 Planned and actual figures
3 Published figures only until 1976, afterwards progressed ones
Source: Heiner Busch, Albrect Funk, Udo Kauss I Wolf-Dieter Narr I Falco
Werkentin, Die Polizei in der Blmdesrepublik (Frankfurt a.M.: Campus
Verlag, 1985), 79.
The large discrepancy between the bold and non-bold figures in Table
6.2 for public security is probably due to the inclusion of the Federal
Border Guard in the revised figures, which probably explains the sudden
upsurge in public security personnel between 1975 and 1978. This also
explains the change in statistical format that occurred and caused the