Federal Criminal Police Office (Austria)

The Federal Criminal Police (. BK) in Austria is a nation-wide for the purpose of fighting a court of criminal acts and to perform central functions in the field of international police co-operation was to start the office of the Interior Ministry. It is thus an intra- organizational part of the Interior Ministry and no independent authority.

The headquarters of the. BK is the Federal Office Building - Josef -Platz in Vienna Holaubek - Alsergrund. In addition, there are numerous official and also "secret" field offices throughout Austria. Even abroad, there are so-called liaison officers who represent the interests of the Austrian Criminal Police there.

History

The Office was created by federal law ( Federal Law) in 2003.

Facebook page

In November 2009, the Federal Criminal Police Office to install a Facebook site, which went online on 27 November 2009 chose. The first substantive entry is dated 19 December 2009. 's Appearance serves to present the prevention work to the citizen. Getting Tips treated the issues Christmas tree fire, Skidiebstahl, burglary during the winter holiday period and the pickpocketing. Meanwhile, the site has almost 30,000 ' likes ' (as of summer 2013).

Organization

The. BK is under the General Directorate of Public Security, the Ministry of Interior in Section II. The head of the. BK is the director. Since 2008, directs the Federal General Franz Lang. There are currently around 700 staff in the Federal Criminal operate. The Federal divided into seven departments, which in turn called in the office.

  • Division 1: Crime Strategy and central administration
  • Division 2: International Police Cooperation
  • Division 3: Investigations, Organized Crime and General
  • Division 4: Crime Analysis
  • Division 5: Criminal Police assistance services
  • Division 6: Forensic Science and Technology
  • Division 7: Economic Crime

Tasks

With the establishment of the Federal a body should be created that is suitable due to its organization and equipment with specially trained personnel and material resources to support the downstream state police in accordance with their expertise and their special resources. Wide, the Austrian central offices of Interpol, Europol and Sirene stationed in Federal. The. BK is also operational, so for example, in manhunt international situations (target search ), so-called "Cold Case" cases, cybercrime and organized crime.

Abbreviation

The abbreviation ". BK " was chosen to avoid confusion with the Chancellor's Office, abbreviated as " BKA ". The dot before the abbreviation is part of the corporate design of the Interior Ministry.

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