Rainer Grieger (*1962) has headed the Central Department at the Ministry of the Interior and for Municipal Affairs of the State of Brandenburg since 2021 and is a member of Working Group VI (Organization, Public Service Law and Personnel) of the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK). He was previously President of the Brandenburg Police University for over 17 years.
After graduating from high school, he studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Cologne to become a senior police officer and, after graduating with a degree in public administration, was appointed as a detective inspector (1984). After working on the staff of the State Office of Criminal Investigation and as an investigator and search officer in the criminal investigation department of the Duisburg police headquarters, he joined the development staff of the Brandenburg State Office of Criminal Investigation in 1991. After training for the higher police service at the Police Command Academy in Münster-Hiltrup in 1994, he worked for the Potsdam Police and the Brandenburg State Office of Criminal Investigation (including special investigations into OC). From 2001 to 2004, he was responsible for criminal police matters at the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior. During this time, he also represented the German federal states in the EU Council working group on terrorism in Brussels.
Mr. Grieger is also the author and co-editor of the anthology “Knowledge Management in Public Administrations”, new framework conditions, instruments and pilot projects for coping with the demographic change process.
He has acted as an expert in various accreditation procedures for degree programs and certificates related to the police.