Flugpolizei
Encyclopedia
The Flugpolizei is a unit of the Federal Ministry of the Interior
of Austria
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in criminal matters, in connection with major events and to assist with traffic control. It also supports the fire service when fighting fires from the air or during other natural disasters, and carries out search and rescue for the Zivilluftfahrtbehörde (civil aviation authority). Very often, it will also conduct rope rescues in alpine terrain or search for missing persons. On a European level, involvement in future missions in the framework of bilateral police cooperation and with the European border agency Frontex
are of an increasing importance.
The Flugpolizei provides training to users, pilots, flight observers and rescuers (eg flight training for firefighters).
The Flugpolizei participates in the field of aviation law
, specifically with the development of new legal provisions in this sector, and in the study of border incidents in the sky and attacks on civil aviation security.
Federal Ministry for the Interior (Austria)
The Federal Ministry for the Interior is a ministry of the Austrian federal government.It has offices in the Palais Modena. The current head of the ministry is minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner....
of Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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Role
The Flugpolizei coordinates air operations in the support of the PolizeiFederal Police (Austria)
The Federal Police is the law enforcement agency of Austria. The Austrian Federal Police were formed in July 2005 as one formal unit of police. Before 2005 the police system operated the Gendarmerie for most of the country, and the Polizei in the heavy city and urban areas such as Vienna,...
in criminal matters, in connection with major events and to assist with traffic control. It also supports the fire service when fighting fires from the air or during other natural disasters, and carries out search and rescue for the Zivilluftfahrtbehörde (civil aviation authority). Very often, it will also conduct rope rescues in alpine terrain or search for missing persons. On a European level, involvement in future missions in the framework of bilateral police cooperation and with the European border agency Frontex
Frontex
Frontex is the European Union agency for external border security...
are of an increasing importance.
The Flugpolizei provides training to users, pilots, flight observers and rescuers (eg flight training for firefighters).
The Flugpolizei participates in the field of aviation law
Aviation law
Aviation law is the branch of law that concerns flight, air travel, and associated legal and business concerns. Some of its area of concern overlaps that of admiralty law and in many cases, aviation law is considered a matter of international law due to the nature of air travel. However, the...
, specifically with the development of new legal provisions in this sector, and in the study of border incidents in the sky and attacks on civil aviation security.