Standby unit

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A standby unit in Austria is a special unit of the federal police , which is organizationally subordinate to the regional police headquarters. Such units are currently already installed at two of the nine state police departments, and the rest are to follow by the end of 2018.

The task of the special units is, among other things, to ensure security at crime hotspots, in urban areas and in public transport, thereby relieving the police inspections .

history

Vienna

A standby unit was set up for the first time with effect from November 1, 2012 at the Vienna State Police Directorate. Initially 110 officials were subordinate to the unit, now around 200 officials are assigned to it, 60 of which form the core of the unit and around 150 are assigned to each for six months. The aim was to enable the police to react faster and more consistently to acute situations such as security operations. The standby unit was housed at first provisionally in the Federal Office Building Josef-Holaubek Square in the ninth Viennese district Alsergrund in which, among other things, the headquarters of itself Federal Criminal located. The standby unit has been stationed in the Rossau barracks since May 1, 2014 . The barracks are also located in the Alsergrund district on Schlickplatz.

Upper Austria

The standby unit at the State Police Department of Upper Austria was set up in July 2017 with around 50 officers, 30 of whom are regularly changing. In principle, deployments are planned throughout the federal state, but the main focus is on fighting crime at Linz Central Station and in the surrounding parks. By the end of August 2018, a total of 343 out of 449 key missions had been carried out in the state capital Linz .

Expansion to the remaining federal states

In August 2018, Interior Minister Herbert Kickl announced that he wanted to expand the concept of standby units to all of Austria by the end of the year and set up a standby unit at every state police headquarters.

Organization and tasks

In addition to the permanently assigned (mostly senior) officers, members of the unit are young police officers who, after completing their training, worked for several months in a police station, to which they return after six months. The police officers are mostly on foot and use public transport, the duty rosters are based on requirements.

The main tasks of the standby units are:

  • superimposed surveillance and patrol service,
  • Special and focus campaigns,
  • peaceful, low-threshold events of the Great Security and Order Service (GSOD) and
  • Search, rescue and rescue operations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vienna police get a standby unit. In: diepresse.com. June 27, 2012, accessed March 26, 2013 .
  2. ^ Vienna gets "riot police". In: wien.orf.at. Österreichischer Rundfunk, September 17, 2012, accessed on September 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ On- call unit records 15,000. Arrest. In: ots.at. State Police Directorate Vienna, September 2, 2018, accessed on September 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Police standby units: Trial operation in Upper Austria. In: nachrichten.at. June 18, 2017, accessed September 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Johann Haginger: riot police now a permanent fixture. In: krone.at. August 25, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2018 .