Police Commissioner (Austria)

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Polizeikommissariat ( PK , coll. Kommissariat or Koat) has been the name for 20 branch offices of the nine newly established regional police departments in Austria since 2012 , 14 in Vienna and six in other federal states. The term was previously common in the Austrian Empire in 1852. For example, existed in the area of today's National Police Headquarters in Vienna in 1869, founded kk security guard from the start Polizeicommissariate ; the term has been used there since then.

Outside Vienna, PKe in the Republic of Austria were set up in seven cities by 1976; since 1977 they were referred to as federal police headquarters. In the federal states (with the exception of Vienna), the term was reintroduced in the course of the restructuring of the security authorities enacted in the Federal Constitutional Act in 2012 , for the federal police headquarters in Leoben , Schwechat , Steyr , Villach , Wels and Wiener Neustadt, which existed until August 31, 2012 . They each have the designation "Polizeikommissariat ..." with the addition of the name of the municipality or district of Vienna in which they are located. The police commissariats are not independent authorities, but internal organizational units (branches) of the state police departments above them, which act as authorities.

Each police station is headed by a legally qualified officer with the usage designation City Governor. According to the federal constitution, heads of police commissioners can use their designation in female form ( city ​​governor ). Like the state police department for the entire federal state, the commissioner's office has to take care of all administrative agendas to be dealt with by police lawyers (e.g. administrative criminal proceedings, criminal files for the jurisdiction) in the district assigned to it. The subordinate city ​​police command coordinates the work of uniformed and civilian law enforcement officers in the area of ​​the commissariat in the police stations .

Police commissioners in Vienna and their jurisdiction

Rayon of the police department in Vienna
Police Department Inner City, 1st, Deutschmeisterplatz
Polizeikommissariat Favoriten (outdated labeling: District Police Commissioner ), 10., Van-der-Nüll-Gasse / Gudrunstraße

Police stations outside Vienna

(until August 31, 2012 Federal Police Headquarters )

history

The so-called Wiener Polizeirayon, the area of ​​responsibility of the kk police department in Vienna , comprised more than 20 independent suburbs of the city in addition to the then urban area of Vienna (nine districts) in 1869, the year the non-military Vienna Security Guard was founded. At that time the police rayon was divided into 14 police districts, each of which was headed by a police station. For the World Exhibition in 1873 , a police department was also set up for the Prater in 1872 , which was named kk Polizei-Bezirks-Kommissariat Prater in 1874 and existed for decades.

The term commissioner was already in use in Austria in the mid-19th century in ministries for certain agendas for senior officials. Today is the lowest rank legally qualified officer or magistrate on Matura level or, as government commissioner to deal with the management of projects abroad dealt Not officials (eg. As government commissioner for the Austrian participation in the Biennale of Venice ). The term Kommissar refers to a rank of the German police that is not used in Austria, even if this is suggested again and again by some crime series and the Austrian singer Falco in a song Everything clear, Mr. Kommissar? asked.

The streamlining of the geographical allocation of the Vienna police work in 2002, the year of the Vienna police reform , carried out (this should not be confused with the merger of federal police , federal safety guard corps and detective corps in 2005). If there was previously a district police station (with a crime department) in each of Vienna's 23 municipal districts, in 2002 nine police stations were saved; of the remaining 14, some have since had more than one district to look after (see list). The assignment of the municipal districts to commissioners was based on the workload, the population and the area. By the end of 1976, the federal police authorities in seven other cities in Austria were known as the Federal Police Commissariat (see below).

The five Vienna Criminal Police Office, to which the urban area was divided up in 2002, were renamed in 2008 as regional criminal investigation offices , but have the same tasks as before. Since September 1, 2012, they have also been under the control of the Vienna State Police Directorate (Police President).

Up until the end of 1976 there were federal police stations to manage the police service in Leoben , St. Pölten , Schwechat , Steyr , Villach , Wels and Wiener Neustadt . They were renamed Federal Police Directorates with effect from January 1, 1977 by ordinance of the Kreisky III federal government (Minister of the Interior: Otto Rösch ) of December 7, 1976 . In 2012, the services were re-established as commissioners in six of these seven cities; The State Police Department of Lower Austria is located in St. Pölten.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGBl. No. 166/1852 (= p. 734)
  2. ↑ Lehmann's general housing indicator for the imperial capital and residence city of Vienna and the surrounding area , 8th year, Vienna 1870, p. 40 (= p. 58 of the digital record)
  3. ↑ Central Inspectorate of the Vienna Federal Security Guard (Ed.): Sixty Years of the Vienna Security Guard , self-published by the Vienna Federal Police Directorate , Vienna 1929, p. 24 f.
  4. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 690/1976