The Chief of State Police (Landespolizeipräsident) is Horst Kretzschmar and the political head is the Minister for the Interior in Saxony Roland Wöller (CDU).The head office is the Chief of State Police, Horst Kretschmar, in Dresden.[3] The office of the Anti-Riot Police Saxony (Bereitschaftspolizei Sachsen) is located in Leipzig.[4] In 2018, the organization adopted the Heckler & Koch VP9 semi-automatic pistol as the standard side-arm.All state police offices in Saxony became part of Geheimen Staatspolizei in Berlin.
Water cannons and armoured cars of Police Saxony in Lepzig at an illegal anti-vaccine movement gathering, 2021
