• 6th GPEC^® took place 4 - 6 May 2010 in Leipzig, Germany
• Patron: Dr. Thomas de Maizière, Federal Minister of the Interior
• General Police Equipment Exhibition & Conference GPEC^® = Central Europe’s leading exhibition for police and special equipment as interdepartmental platform for internal and external security
• 7th GPEC is planned for 8 - 10 May 2012 in Leipzig

GPEC General Police Equipment Exhibition & Conference^® is a closed specialised trade fair exclusively for members of authorities for the business with police equipment, security technology and services. A special conference and lecture programme rounds off the event which took place for the first time in 2000.

This event addresses the following target groups:

-       Police/Gendarmerie

-       Border Guard

-       Customs

-       Prison Service

-       Government Services and Agencies

-       Special Forces

-       Military Police and Infantry

This specialised trade fair, which is unique in Central Europe, aims at supporting

• Interdepartmental and interdisciplinary exchange of information
• Tendencies and technologies for state-of-the-art equipment and training of state security forces as well as
• Strengthening of state security, the fight against terrorism and for homeland security

It takes place in Germany every two years. Organiser is Exhibition & Marketing Wehrstedt GmbH.

General (ret.) Ulrich K. Wegener

Architect of GSG 9 and its first Commander

Director in the Federal Police Achim Friedl

Head of division B6; Technical equipment and logistics for the Federal Police Germany

President of Police (ret.) Hans-Ulrich Herzberg

former SEK (SWAT) Commander in Baden-Wuerttemberg and President of Police of the Free State of Saxony