![Lothar Bergmann, Commissioner [Leitender Polizeidirektor], Home Office, Inspectorate of Constabulary, Hamburg, Germany INTERVIEWED BY KAROLINE H. STARKGRAFF](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978042925/9780429251870.jpg "Lothar Bergmann, Commissioner [Leitender Polizeidirektor], Home Office, Inspectorate of Constabulary, Hamburg, Germany INTERVIEWED BY KAROLINE H. STARKGRAFF")
ABSTRACT
Both the interviewee and myself are high-ranking police officers and for almost two decades served in the same force, the Hamburg Police Force, at the same time. Commissioner Bergmann already held senior posts when, in 1982, I joined the Hamburg Police as a recruit. Since transferring in 1997, I have maintained a professional relationship with him.
