My cabinet / Zürich
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If you’re in charge of policing one of the safest cities in the world, pressure and pride go hand in hand.
Established: 1787
Location: Zürich
Staff: 2,200
The emergency services in Zürich are among the fastest and most well equipped in the world. When we meet Zürich’s chief of police Daniel Blumer and his team, they arrive on bicycles, motorbikes, patrol cars and riot-control vehicles, among them a water-cannon truck. Nothing is done by halves at the Stadtpolizei Zürich.
“I decided to become a police officer because I was sure that I’d always be on the right side of justice, serving society,” says Blumer, who joined the city’s police force in 1985 and…
