District Police Command

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Area of ​​responsibility of the BPK (white) and the SPK (red)

A District Police Command (BPK) is an organizational unit of the Federal Police in Austria . Organizationally , they are subordinate to the respective state police headquarters, subordinate to them are the existing police stations in the respective districts . They work professionally for various authorities, in particular in police matters for the district administrative authority as the security authority of the first instance. Organizationally, they are part of the state police headquarters. Instructions from the management of the State Police Directorate in matters relating to internal service may not contradict the technical instructions ( Section 10 (3) of the Security Police Act).

District police commandos exist in all districts , with the exception of those districts in which the state police department acts as the 1st instance security authority (the city ​​police commanders perform the tasks of a district police command there). Thus, there are district police commanders not only in those political districts in which district authorities exist, but also in the statutory cities of Krems and Waidhofen an der Ybbs . In the districts of Bruck an der Leitha and Leoben , the LPD acts as the 1st instance security authority, since it is not responsible for the entire district, there are also district police commanders in these districts.

A district police command is headed by the respective district police commander, a senior executive officer . Organizational measures in the area of ​​district police commandos are incumbent on the state police director in agreement with the state governor , insofar as their object is to entrust or dismiss the head of a district police command or to relocate them without changing their legal position.

Historical

District police commandos are the direct successor organizations of the former district gendarmerie commandos (BGK). They were formed after the merger of federal police , federal safety guard corps and detectives Corps in July of 2005.

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