Linz sector

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Badge of the PI Special Services Linz

The Police Inspection Special Services Linz - Sector (former Mobile Operations Command Linz, MEK Linz) is a unit of the Austrian Federal Police . The PI Special Services Sector is a police station in Upper Austria and is used to support the other patrol officers in certain official acts.

Area of ​​responsibility

The Linz sector is subordinate to the Linz City Police Command ( Landespolizeidirektion OÖ) and is an operational, mobile unit.

The specially equipped sector vehicles provide continuous patrol duty and are available for the support services of other police officers.

The unit is used, for example, to support the other police forces in official acts with a higher risk potential.

Organization and background

The structure of the unit is based on various American SWAT units or the WEGA (Wiener Einsatzgruppe Alarmabteilung) .

Patrol duty is provided in specially equipped sector vehicles in two-man teams. In addition, all tasks that exceed the normal risk framework, but do not yet fall within the scope of the task area of ​​the Cobra Task Force or that cannot intervene in time, are left to the PI Special Services Linz Sector.

In the federal capital Vienna the WEGA and in the provincial capital Graz the PI Special Services Graz - Sector fulfills a similar area of ​​responsibility.

The special services sector Linz was founded on July 1, 2002 in Linz and consisted of colleagues from the MEK Linz, which was dissolved on July 1, 2002.

All mobile task forces (MEK) of the federal police headquarters and special task forces (SEG) of the federal gendarmerie located in Austria were then incorporated into the task force Cobra and dissolved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of offices in Upper Austria. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .