Electronic criminal police information system

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The Electronic Criminal Police Information System ( EKIS for short ) is a summary of eleven databases of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior .

Executive employees have access to around 85 million data records from around 10,000 computers, such as

  • the criminal record
  • the vehicle wanted / information file
  • the wanted person file
  • the personal information file
  • the property search file
  • the cultural property search file
  • the criminal police file index
  • the identification service evidence including AFIS and the DNA database

abuse

Two Lower Austrian officials used the system for the Kazakh secret service to obtain illegal information.

The EKIS was, among other things, the focus of a committee of inquiry into the so-called spy affair .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF report: http://noe.orf.at/stories/342884/ .