Police Detention Center

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As a Police Detention Center (PAZ short form, nor Police Detention Center ) in are Austria all prisons referred to under the administration of the Ministry of the Interior are. In contrast to the prisons , which are affiliated to the Federal Ministry of Justice , no criminal detention is carried out in these buildings . Deportation prisoners and administrative offenders are mainly accommodated in the police detention centers. The term has been used since 2002 at the latest.

There are currently 15 police detention centers in Austria. The detention order (AnhO) issued by the ministry and the Aliens Police Act 2005 (FPG) are decisive for being held in a police detention center .

The name “Police Detention Center” was only introduced a few years ago. Until then, the name police prison was used. Since the term “prisoner” is no longer used in current legal parlance, a conceptual adjustment has been made here. In addition, confusion with the placement in judicial prisons, in which remand and criminal detainees are carried out, should be avoided.

Police detention centers in Austria

Police detention center Rossauer Lände in Vienna

In Austria there are currently 15 independent police detention centers and one detention center for detainees in the entire federal territory, which are subordinate to the respective regional police headquarters.

  1. Police detention center Bludenz ( Vorarlberg )
  2. Police Detention Center Eisenstadt 1 ( Burgenland )
  3. Police Detention Center Eisenstadt 2 (Burgenland)
  4. Police Detention Center Graz ( Styria )
  5. Police Detention Center Innsbruck ( Tyrol )
  6. Police Detention Center Klagenfurt ( Carinthia )
  7. Police Detention Center Linz ( Upper Austria )
  8. Police Detention Center Salzburg ( Salzburg )
  9. Police Detention Center St. Pölten (Lower Austria)
  10. Police Detention Center Steyr (Upper Austria)
  11. Police Detention Center Villach (Carinthia)
  12. Police Detention Center Wels (Upper Austria)
  13. Police Detention Center Vienna Hernalser Gürtel ( Vienna )
  14. Police Detention Center Vienna Rossauer Lände (Vienna)
  15. Police Detention Center Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria)

There is also the Vordernberg detention center in Styria, which is basically also a PAZ, but was designed and built exclusively as a detention center for detainees in detention and thus has a special status.

criticism

The conditions in the Austrian police detention centers are regularly criticized by human rights organizations such as Amnesty International . The organizations accuse the Federal Ministry of the Interior of detaining detainees in particular under difficult conditions. This criticism is usually resolutely rejected by the competent authorities. The detention order regulates the following in § 4:

“Detention rooms must be located and furnished in such a way that detainees can be stopped in them in a humane manner and health hazards avoided; Sanitary facilities must be designed in such a way that inmates can also use them in a humane manner in community detention. "

- Paragraph 4 paragraph 1a detention order

Improving the conditions of detention for detainees detained was one of the decisive reasons for building the Vordernberg detention center, which opened in January 2014.

Human Rights Advisory Board

In October 2009, the Human Rights Advisory Board (MRB) at the Ministry of the Interior presented the 5th edition of the report "Conditions of detention in the detention rooms of the security authorities, which is divided into 3 areas:

  • Stopping conditions - such as the cell,
  • Execution of detention - employment, food, personal hygiene
  • External contacts - with the guards, with the detention center

Conditions are generally analyzed, compared with international framework conditions and opportunities for development are shown. The publication of the detention standards working group of the MRB is based on the work of visiting commissions.

From 2005 onwards, the MRB contributed to the drafting of the amendment to the ordinance of the Federal Minister of the Interior on the detention of people by the security executive (AnhO new) .

Details

Graz

The PAZ Graz with the current address Sauraugasse 1 is located inside the Palais Wildenstein , which extends over the Paulustorgasse / Sauraugasse / Stadtpark with Parkring. The palace and thus also the PAZ is a listed building . The men's wing of the PAZ was previously part of a hospital and housed monastery cells even earlier. Before the police gave up the use of essential parts of the building and partially moved to an official building on Triester Straße, the address and the main entrance of the palace at Paulustorgasse 8 were used for the PAZ. Then, as now, vehicle access was from the north end of the parking ring.

The wing in which the men are stopped was renovated around 1999. Iron -studded wooden cell doors from the Karlau Prison , which have a food flap, were recycled.

To the north-west there is an approximately 12 × 25 m courtyard for the walk, on the other long side of which is a larger building, in which women are arrested, at least on the mezzanine floor. This inner courtyard is separated from the large courtyard of the palace by a wall that has had a horizontally structured trapezoidal sheet metal cladding since at least 1999 . Since 1999/2000, this wall has been secured against climbing over by NATO barbed wire at its crown. In 2018/2019 this barrier was expanded and a rainwater pipe in the east of the courtyard was secured against climbing.

After a demonstration by and for refugees on the edge of the city park opposite the Parkring 4 entrance on September 28, 2015, the Refugee Protest Camp started here on October 1 to "protest against the long asylum procedures". The participants disbanded the camp on October 28, 2015. Only two out of 80 people have had an interview appointment to process their asylum application since the camp began. The 2nd protest camp started on July 7, 2016.

In Paulustorgasse, diagonally across from the former main gate of the police headquarters, on a retaining wall in the direction of the Schlossberg is the monument "In memory of the freedom fighters against National Socialism and its victims - The City of Graz", which was inaugurated in 1949.

Ferdinand Berger (1917-2004) sat in the Graz police prison at Easter and from the summer of 1935 on account of the possession of newspapers of the Communist Youth Association and the accused of organizing a strike. Berger took part in the February fights in Graz and the Spanish Civil War, was interned in France, survived four years of Nazi concentration camps and worked for the police after the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitt Albrecht: Jeschek & Jones: Wiener Blut , Volume 1144 by Ariadne Krimi , Volume 1 by Jeschek & Jones , Argument, 2002, ISBN 388619874X , p. 81: “The prison on the Rossauer Lände, right next to the security office, is the last has been renamed the police detention center. "
  2. ↑ Inquiry response (PDF; 33 kB) from the Federal Minister of the Interior on the subject of the situation in the police detention centers .
  3. ^ Conditions of detention in detention rooms of the security authorities bmi.gv.at, October 31, 2009, accessed July 20, 2019 (PDF, 127 pages)
  4. ↑ http://www.verein-menschenrechte.at/schubanstalten/pazgraz.html
  5. ^ Refugee protest camp in front of the police detention center in Graz no-racism.net, article October 1, 2015. And later articles. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ Freedom Fighters Monument generationendialog-steiermark.at, accessed July 20, 2019.
  7. ^ Ferdinand Berger: It was the state police! doew.at, Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, accessed July 20, 2019.

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