Everyone probably knows this parking lot in front of the Dortmund police station from "Tatort"
Didn't Inspector Faber just heave himself out of the official car
And this scene there in the entrance area looks like something out of a Sunday thriller
An elderly woman lies unconscious on the floor
Chief Superintendent Chantal Boller has already completed three hours of her weekend early shift at the K station
There has been a fire in a housing project for mentally ill people in the Marten district
break-ins at a school and various cars and
asking if a team could assist with the search of two apartments in Dortmund
Chantal Boller (28) is sitting in one of the five writing rooms on the first floor of the police station
Above her is a large photo of a typical New York street scene
She has just returned from securing evidence in Hörde
The victim of the sexual offense is a mentally ill woman from the LWL clinic in Aplerbeck
A witness had observed the scene and alerted the police
The young investigator has since seized the victim's clothing and taken it to the evidence room for examination
her team partner Tim Dzikowski is supporting the investigation into the fire in Marten
She is said to know the suspect and is being questioned
Chantal Boller was fascinated by crime stories
I went to the police in my home town of Meinerzhagen and asked if I could do an internship
The officers told me to come back in a week
Boller ended up working for the police and studied for three years at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in Hagen
she teaches criminalistics and forensics there as a part-time lecturer
the guard on duty from the "small control center" opposite
She is in contact with all the patrol cars in the city and deploys the teams
She knows what the situation is on the ground
which K-station team is dealing with what and where
we're waiting for the request from the patrol car!"
Dortmund and its now infamous Nordstadt district
Nordstadt is a crime hotspot - street crime
criminal clan members and right-wing groups dominate police operations
"Dortmund has changed," says Chantal Boller
"There are hardly any simple assaults any more
It feels like every crime involves a knife."
A situation that has an impact on the police officers' sense of security
And you look carefully at who you're dealing with," says the 28-year-old
More than ever after the incident in Ratingen
but the thought also crossed my mind: It could happen to us here too."
The dead woman in Aplerbeck!" shouts Alina D.
signaling that Chantal Boller is now expected there
An emergency doctor had been called to the apartment of a 91-year-old woman
The doctor does not know the circumstances and routinely calls in the police
Boller and her colleague Tim Dzikowski had an idea of what to expect
The woman had collapsed in the bathroom on her way to the toilet
who opens the door to the elegantly furnished apartment in the south of Dortmund
cuts open her nightgown - protecting herself from infection with an FFP2 mask and gloves
Her colleague next door takes the daughter's statement
"Everything fits," says Chantal Boller later
"There is apparently no evidence on her body that anyone caused her death."
An hour and a half's drive away in Detmold in East Westphalia
Detective Inspector Olivia Habermann has long since finished her night shift
Detmold is a small town of 75,000 inhabitants with universities and authorities
Even the Detmold police station on the main street next to the district building
gives the impression that everything is still in order here
Which is not to say that Olivia Habermann has a quiet job here
Night shift at her K station means that she and the team are solely responsible for everything that requires forensic expertise
the Guardia Civil from Spain calls in because they need information about a man from Detmold who they have arrested on suspicion of forging documents
the man is also what is known as "sufficiently well-known" in his home country
She too has wanted to be an investigator for as long as she can remember
And she likes shift work: "Especially when it's turbulent."
Olivia Habermann and her colleague Schmid set off for the Teutoburg Forest
Someone has discovered a dead body near the Externsteine
The cause of death is unknown and the location is difficult to make out in the dark
"We are lucky that the patrol cars and radios are now equipped with GPS and can be identified by the control center
Otherwise we could have spent a long time searching in the depths of the Teutoburg Forest," says the investigator
The pieces of the puzzle soon fit together
He had apparently not been missed by anyone at home
Olivia Habermann switched to the CID after a year on patrol duty
There are still assignments that she is experiencing for the first time and has to get to grips with
"It's difficult when children become victims," says Habermann
traumatic experiences are also part of our job
but I've found a way to deal with them well and not take the professional issues home with me after work
to talk to colleagues from the team about what I've experienced." She emphasizes: "First and foremost
our Lippe K-Wache is about searching for and securing evidence - but of course we are also responsible for corpses."
And Chantal Boller enthuses about the fascination of her work: "Patrol duty brings us every new case like a package
take it apart and find out how it all fits together."