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The State Criminal Police Office, or Landeskriminalamt (German: [ˈlandəskʁimiˌnaːlʔamt] (LKA) pronounced [ɛlkaːʔˈaː] ) in German, is an independent law enforcement agency in all 16 German states that is directly subordinate to the state's ministry of the interior.