Detective Corps

Cockade and badge of the Detective Corps

The Kriminalbeamtenkorps was a separate guard in Austria and existed until July 1, 2005. After that, it was merged with the Federal Security Guard Corps and the Federal Gendarmerie to form the Federal Police .

education

The one-year training to become a detective officer (KrB) could begin after at least 5 years of service as a (uniformed) security guard.

The training included in particular

• Criminalistics with criminal tactics , forensic technology and police service knowledge
• criminology
• State and Constitutional Law
• Criminal law as well as the sections of criminal procedural law relating to the right to intervene
• General administrative law and special administrative law , in particular police law
• Civil service law
• Applied Psychology
• Forensic medicine

After completion, the officer was assigned to a detective agency and performed duty in civilian clothes and a civilian company car, but was equipped with a service weapon and other equipment (e.g. handcuffs ).

Criminal service

The criminal investigation department was responsible for investigating criminal offenses, i.e. criminal offenses that could be roughly divided into the following groups:

• Offenses against life and limb (e.g. murder )
• Offenses against other people's assets (e.g. theft , robbery , fraud , embezzlement )
• Offenses against morality (e.g. rape )
• Counterfeit offenses (e.g. forgery of documents , counterfeiting of money )
• Drug offenses

Detective officers thus acted as executive organs in judicial prosecution , which the public prosecutor or examining magistrate could use for operational investigations.

Official title

With regard to their official titles , officers in the criminal service did not differ from security guards - contrary to an opinion that was partly also spread through TV series, there were (and are) no “ commissioners ” ( commissioner in the sense of partial official titles of the German police ) in Austria.

Official title of the Detective Corps

Service class	1957	1967
Senior officials
VII	Central Criminal Inspector	Detective Colonel
VI	Chief of Police Inspector	Detective Colonel
V	Chief Criminal Inspector 1st class	Detective major
IV	Chief Criminal Inspector 2nd class	Detective captain detective lieutenant
III	Criminal Investigator	Kriminalhauptmann Kriminaloberleutnant Detective lieutenant
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Duty officers
(IV) III-I	Detective Group Inspector
	Detective District Inspector
	Detective District Inspector
Assigned officials
III-I	Pillar of Criminal Investigation
	Detective

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1. ^ "Post plan for 1957." Austrian Parliament. 2018-01-12.
2. ^ "Government bill: Federal law 1967, with which the Salary Transfer Act is again amended." Austrian Parliament. 2018-01-12.