Gerhard Pürstl

Gerhard Pürstl (* 5. July 1962 in Vienna ) is the chief of police since 2008 head of the Vienna Police Department , since the security agencies-restructuring 2012 State Police Commissioner of the National Police Directorate Vienna.

Life

After graduating from high school , Pürstl served as a one-year volunteer with the armed forces . After several leadership and troop training courses, he upgraded to the rank of first lieutenant .

He then studied at the University of Vienna Jus . After receiving his doctorate , he joined the Vienna police in 1988 as a legal officer . The district police commissioners in Brigittenau , Währing and Leopoldstadt served as speakers from 1988 to 1990.

For six years he then held the position of chief adviser in the Office for Organization, Legal Issues and Technical Supervision in the Presidential Department of the Police Department. From 1996 to 2002 he was deputy head of this office.

After the restructuring of the BPD in the course of the Vienna police reform , Pürstl initially worked as the main advisor in the office for legal issues and data protection, before becoming its board member from October 2002. He last held the official title of court counselor .

After Police President Peter Stiedl announced that he would retire, Pürstl was the only one of thirteen candidates to be described by the evaluation committee as "highly suitable" for the successor to Stiedl. In mid-December 2007, Interior Minister Günther Platter announced Pürstl as the new police chief and took up his post on January 1, 2008.

Since the state police departments were introduced throughout Austria on September 1, 2012 due to the restructuring of the security authorities , Pürstl has since been named state police president .

Pürstl received media attention at the 2014 Vienna Academic Ball. The Greens called for his resignation after he said the following sentence on the ORF broadcast “In the center”: “It's good if they [the demonstrators] were at the rescue. Then there is the data, and then we can research it. ”But Pürstl received support from the ranks of the ÖVP and the FPÖ , who praised the work of the 2,000 police officers at the academics ball.

Awards

• 2010: Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2012: Great Silver Decoration for Services to the State of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The press
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)