Dresden architecture and numerous world-renowned museums and art collections, Dresden has been called "Elbflorenz" (Florence of the Elbe). The incorporation of neighbouring rural communities over the past 60 years has made Dresden the twelfth largest urban district by area in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne. The nearest German cities are Chemnitz to the southwest, Leipzig to the northwest and Berlin to the north. Prague, Czech Republic is about to the south and to the east is the Polish city of Wrocław. Dresden is one of the greenest cities in all of Europe, with 63% of the city being green areas
Hamburg Police the development up to the North Sea flood of 1962 and the following incorporation of the police into the State Ministry of the Interior. On 3 May 1945, the first order for the police force in Hamburg by the "609 Detachment Hansestadt Hamburg", the military administrative government for Hamburg, was to stand by armed. On 7 May 1945, precise regulations for the German police offices were published. In 1945 head of the police was the British Colonel Michel O'Rorke, chief of the "Public Safety Branch". At the beginning of May 1945, the police force had 1,720 active officers, 3,456 reserve