GPS-triggered recovery: Wallet theft solved with GPS tracking technology at BPOL-KI

On the morning of August 24, 2025, a 35-year-old individual reported a wallet theft to the Federal Police at Kiel station. The wallet, containing 140.00 euros, was stolen from a jacket left on a train.

The incident occurred at Kiel Station, and the Federal Police Inspectorate Kiel, one of the operational units under the command of the Federal Police Directorate in Bad Bramstedt, was quick to respond. The stolen wallet had a GPS tracker, which led the Federal Police to an allotment garden in Kiel.

In a turn of events, a suspect was found in the allotment garden. Meanwhile, on the morning of August 25, 2025, a juvenile Hessian man was arrested as a suspect for theft in Mainz after fleeing police. He was found hiding and linked to theft, driving without a license, and other offenses, with a previous ban on entering Mainz city center.

After completing police procedures, the victim was returned their stolen property, except for 20.00 euros. The Federal Police Directorate in Bad Bramstedt, which operates in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the North and Baltic Seas, employs approximately 2,600 staff members, including police officers, administrative staff, and hourly workers.

The Directorate also has a maritime component, "Federal Police Sea", to monitor the sea border in the North and Baltic Seas (Schengen external border). For more information about the Federal Police and the Federal Police Directorate in Bad Bramstedt, visit www.bundespolizei.de.

For further questions, Katharina Wala at the Federal Police Inspectorate Kiel can be contacted at Telephone: 0431/ 980 71 - 118, E-Mail: [email protected], and Twitter: @bpol_kueste. The Federal Police Inspectorate Kiel is located in Kiel.

The Federal Police Directorate in Bad Bramstedt has operational units in Flensburg, Kiel, Rostock, Stralsund, Pasewalk, and a Federal Police Inspectorate for Combating Crime in Rostock, as well as a Mobile Control and Surveillance Unit. The Directorate performs a wide range of tasks, including protecting the federal territory at the border, railway police tasks, border, maritime, and environmental police tasks in the North and Baltic Seas.