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The Federal Police (Austrian German: Bundespolizei, pronounced [ˈbʊndəspoliˌtsaɪ] ⓘ) is the national and principal law enforcement agency of Austria. 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 ...
The Federal Police is the primary civilian law enforcement agency of Austria, responsible for ordinary policing and border control.It succeeded the Gendarmerie, the Guard Corps, the Detective Corps, and the urban police forces in 2005.
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 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 ).
EKO Cobra (Austrian German: Einsatzkommando Cobra; "Task Force Cobra") is the tier one police tactical unit of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior. EKO Cobra is not part of the Austrian Federal Police, but instead is directly under the control of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Federal Police (Austria) Financial Police (Austria) This page was last edited on 3 March 2018, at 09:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The legal basis for the BVT was the Sicherheitspolizeigesetz ("Federal Security Police Act"). The BVT existed as a federal office with nine bureaus, one in each of the nine states of Austria, generally located alongside the state police in the capital of each respective state. [citation needed] For oversight of the BVT, the Austrian National ...
Bundespolizei: Federal Police Service Alpine Einsatzgruppen (AEG): Mountain Police, part of Federal Police; Bereitschaftseinheit Wien (BE): Standby Police Unit for Vienna; Einsatzeinheit (EE): Riot Police of Federal Police; See- und Strompolizei: River branch of Federal Police; Sonderdienste Sektor Graz (SEKTOR): SWAT unit of Federal Police in Graz