Athletics

It can't be high and difficult enough: Kamen highway police officer and amateur extreme athlete Sarah Drees loves special challenges.
Athletics
Being physically fit is one of the prerequisites for the police profession. A love for sports therefore comes naturally.
Many police officers do sport as a hobby or as a sideline and are really successful at it.
From the patrol car
to the playing field

  • "Have a thick skin"

    Police superintendent Philipp Hüwe has turned his hobby into a profession. He started refereeing in the district league at the age of 15. Today, he is an assistant referee at national league matches.

    When it hurts, happiness comes!

    Climbing high over climbing walls with a car tire, shimmying along the "Never ending Monkey Bars", overcoming the fear of heights on the "Execution Tower" or crawling on all fours through slippery mud - obstacle courses are Sarah Drees' passion. In 2021 alone, the 35-year-old highway patrol officer ...

    Professional soccer: Last whistle

    His career ended where it began: in Berlin. And the last game was just as he loved it: a nail-biter. Last-minute victory in the 92nd minute. Fan chants. This is how referee Guido Winkmann (47) left the pitch - after 20 years of professional soccer.
Top athletes
  

Undefeated forever

The stands bathed in blue light, yellow spotlights pointing skywards, 20,000 cheering spectators in the stands. Just like the Olympics, thought Sandra Winkler. The police officer was at the Invictus Games in the Düsseldorf Arena.

All-rounder

Policewoman Kim Irmgartz doesn't just step on the gas on the racetrack.

"I want to become European champion"

Peter Lohmann becomes European champion at the Ironman in Frankfurt
Police sport
  

Top performances in both the patrol car and the rowing boat: police sports awards 2022

Minister Reul: "They are all the best advertisers our police could wish for."
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