German presidential motorcade with Lower Saxony State Police and Ambulance

As part of his two days long lasting first official visit in the state of Lower Saxony the new German preseident Frank-Walther Steinmeier visited several places in Friesland County and the region of East Frisia in the far north-west of the country.

In this video he came from the town of Wiesmoor and is heading to a destination in the town of Aurich in the same-named county.

Part of the presidential motorcade on this part of the trip are 16 motorbikes and five patrol cars from the Lower Saxony State Police, one ambulance from the Aurich County EMS, the president's armored car (the 2nd black one with the number plate "0-1" right behind the V-formation of motorbikes) as well as the other cars from the federal protective services.

The video starts as one State Police patrol car left the flow of traffic and the police officer started blocking three directions and then directed traffic on inbound Federal Road 72 to proceed through the intersection no matter if they had a green or red traffic light. This intersection is one out of the two busiest intersections in the town. It was noontime and quite a lot of traffic was on all major roads in the town. To be honest: concerning the fact that only one police officer was ahead of the convoy, he managed to clear the intersection pretty well and for sure fast as well.

Comparing to the scale of other presidential motorcades, the German ones affect the daily life and traffic situation only a very short peroid of time. However, there are always some few impatient people like the mother you can hear yelling some few times "how long does it take, I have to pick up my kid at school" ... well, sometimes even 2 to 5 minutes seem to be too much for some people. As the convoy passed the intersection you can see one of the older patrol cars leaving the convoy and turning left right back to the police station ^^

Btw quite a nice female police officer was standing right next to me. She tried to shoot a video with her DSLR camera, however it got a bit shakey she admitted as I asked her if she got some good pictures ^^