Law enforcement in 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...

is the responsibility of the Directorate General for Public Security, a subdivision of the Federal Ministry of the Interior

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....

 located at Herrengasse 7 in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

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Law enforcement in Austria underwent restructuring on 1 July 2005. The public security police, the criminal investigation service and the Bundesgendarmerie were consolidated and organized into nine federal provincial commands.

Over 20,000 police officers are on duty in the Federal Police at more than 1,000 police stations. On lakes and rivers the federal police has over 70 boats and other craft to act as the Water police

Water police

Water police, also called harbour patrols, port police, marine/maritime police, nautical patrols, bay constables or river police, are police officers, usually a department of a larger police organisation, who patrol in water craft...

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The phone number 059133 connects you to the nearest police station anywhere in Austria. The emergency number is 133.

Law enforcement agencies

• Directorate General for Public Security
  • Federal Investigation Bureau
    Federal Investigation Bureau
    The Federal Criminal Police Office was created in Austria as a federal police force to effectively combat crime nationwide and to perform international police cooperation functions. This happened in 2002 with a special law called the Federal Investigation Bureau Law . The .BK is also sometimes...
    
     
  • Federal Police
    Federal 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,...
    
      - divided into 83 district
    District
    Districts are a type of administrative division, in some countries managed by a local government. They vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties, several municipalities, or subdivisions of municipalities.-Austria:...
    
     police commands and 27 city
    City
    A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.For example, in the U.S...
    
     police commands
  • Municipal Police  - in 21 municipalities
  • Air Police
  • Prison Guard - responsible for prisons and prisoner transports
    • Justizwache Einsatz Gruppe (JEG): special force for prisons in case of emergency

Special units

• EKO Cobra
  EKO Cobra
  EKO Cobra is Austria's foremost counter-terrorism special operations tactical unit. It is not part of the Austrian Federal Police but is directly under the control of the Austrian Federal Ministry for the Interior.-History:...
  
   Special Unit – Austrian anti-terror forces
• Wiener Einsatzgruppe Alarmabteilung (WEGA) – exists only in Vienna, comparable to the American S.W.A.T.
  S.W.A.T.
  - S.W.A.T. 1 :Date: October 4, 2006Location: VilniusResults: Valentine Bagdonavicius defeated Richard Damanskas by KO Gediminas Bielskis defeated Mantas Kuslin by KO Saulius Poltanavicius vs Aivaras Juska Draw...
  
  -Special Units
• Einsatzabteilung Kranich – Special Unit for the Vienna Airport

External links

Bundeskriminalamt Polizei