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The German
Disaster Victim Identification Team
Hans-Dieter SCHIFFELS
Detective Chief Superintendent
Head of German Disaster Victim Identification Team
German Federal Office of Criminal Investigations
Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Wiesbaden
The German Disaster
Victim Identification Team:
History /
Background
-
aircrash on
Tenerife/Spain in 1972
-
155 people
killed - mainly German tourists
-
1st DVI
operation of German Federal Police
-
Experiences
made in Tenerife
-
fast growing
mass tourism in the early 70‘s in Europe / in the world
-
what to do in
cases of disasters (in Germany, abroad) ?
-
need for a
professional response by German Federal government
-
initial start
to establish a national DVI Team (1972)
-
BKA ordered to
take responsibility
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