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Law enforcement in Austria is the responsibility of the Directorate General for Public Security, a subdivision of the Federal Ministry of the Interior located at Herrengasse 7 in Vienna. Over 20,000 police officers are on duty in the Federal Police at more than 1,000 police stations.
The Federal Police was formed in July 2005 as one formal unit of police. In 2005, the Federal Police replaced the Austrian Federal Gendarmerie, which policed most of the country, and the Polizei which policed Austria’s major urban centres such as Vienna, Salzburg and Graz. [1] The Federal Police also serves as Austria’s border control ...
The police commands of Vienna, the state capitals, and the other major urban centers are subject to the operational direction of the police directorates, while most rural area police commands serve under precinct authorities. The police directorates are headed by commissioners who report directly to the minister of the interior.
Austrian police officers who provided security around the Russian Embassy on the day of that country's presidential election were given small presents as they left, Vienna police said Tuesday ...
Federal law enforcement agencies outside of the ministry's control include the Military Police, the Fiscal Police, and the Judiciary Guard. The Palais Modena is the ministry's central headquarters, it is situated in the centre of Austria's capital Vienna.
The agency was created from the Austrian State police, as well as various special task forces targeting organized crime and terrorism that were under the direction of the Directorate General for Public Security (Generaldirektion für die öffentliche Sicherheit, "GDföS"), which itself is a department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Illuminated panel of a Gendarmerie station. The Federal Gendarmerie (German: Bundesgendarmerie) was an Austrian federal police agency.It was responsible for approximately two thirds of the population on approximately 98% of Austrian national territory, alongside the Federal Safety Guard Corps (Bundessicherheitswachekorps) and Detective Corps (Kriminalbeamtenkorps).
Sicherheitsakademie (SIAK, transl. Police Academy Austria) is the training and research institute of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Austria. It is headquartered in the Marokkaner Barracks in the 3rd District of Vienna (Landstraße), but has training centres throughout Austria. SIAK was established in Section 11 of the Security Police Act.