Access was granted under the following conditions:

Opening access for electronic communication via De-Mail

The De-Mail address poststelle [at] polizei-wesel-nrw.de-mail.de has been set up for electronic communication with the Wesel district police authority via De-Mail. The transmission of De-Mails is possible for both informal and formal correspondence.

If the written form is required by law for certain letters, a handwritten signature would generally be necessary on your part. We have opened access for e-mails that require the written form. This replaces your handwritten signature. For the legally binding electronic sending of documents requiring written form, please use the De-Mail sending option in accordance with Section 5 (5) of the De-Mail Act. The legal requirement is fulfilled if the "sender confirmed" sending option was selected when sending the De-Mail.

If you send us a De-Mail, we will assume that you also wish to receive a reply to this matter by De-Mail. If you close your De-Mail inbox again, please let us know so that we can stop communicating with you by De-Mail.

Further information on De-Mail can be found on the BSI website.

Opening access for encrypted electronic communication

The Wesel district police authority offers an encryption procedure for electronic communication with the e-mail address poststelle.wesel [at] polizei.nrw.de. The public key (certificate) is provided here.

Encrypted communication with an organizational unit of the Wesel district police authority or directly with individual persons within the authority is not permitted. If the Wesel District Police Authority responds to an encrypted email, this will also be done electronically, provided that the Wesel District Police Authority is technically and organizationally capable of doing so. Otherwise, the reply will be sent by another suitable means.

Opening access for documents with a qualified electronic signature

The Wesel district police authority opens access for the transmission of
documents by electronic means at the email address poststelle [at] polizei-wesel.sec.nrw.de (poststelle[at]polizei-wesel[dot]sec[dot]nrw[dot]de )opening a De-Mail account by the sender, the reply will be sent by post. So that we can reply to your message in writing, please include your postal address in your message.

Further information on qualified electronic signatures can be found on the website of the Federal Network Agency.

File attachments

If file attachments are sent to the Wesel district police authority, please note that not all file formats and applications commonly used on the market are supported.

The following common file formats are currently supported:

For documents

• PDF (Portable Document Format)

For images

• JPEG (JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF))
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
• TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

IT security

The transmission of electronic documents to a public authority is not permitted if the electronic documents cannot be checked for IT security using automated procedures in the access system. § Section 3a
Paragraph 3 VwVfG NRW applies accordingly.

Virus protection

If your electronic message or any file attachments it contains are detected as infected by virus protection programs, they cannot be accepted. You will then receive a notification that your message could not be accepted.

Encrypted or executable files

Files that are encrypted with a password or files that are themselves executable or contain executable components (for example with the file extensions *.exe and *.bat and Office files with macros) will
not be accepted. will not be accepted.

File size

The total size of an e-mail/de-mail including all attachments, even if the documents have a qualified electronic signature or are encrypted, is limited to 20 megabytes (MB). If the
permitted file size is exceeded, the De-Mail will not be accepted. You will then receive a notification that your message could not be accepted.

Maintaining the written form for replies

Not all inquiries are answered electronically due to technical and organizational conditions. To ensure that we can reply to your message in writing, please include your postal address in your message.

Closing the De-Mail mailbox

If you close your De-Mail inbox again, please let us know so that we can stop communicating with you via De-Mail.