Federal Ministry for the Interior (Austria)

The Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior ( BMI for short or home office ) is the safety authority III. Responsible entity and in particular for Security, for further matters of citizenship, elections, referendums and popular initiatives as well as the civil service. Head of the Ministry 's Federal Minister of the Interior, Johanna Mikl -Leitner currently.

Federal Minister

In the current incumbent government is Johanna Mikl- Leitner ( ÖVP) Federal Minister of the Interior. As such, it is among other supervisors of the Federal Police, the Federal Agency for State Protection and Counter Terrorism (BVT ) and the Federal Criminal Office, subject to all of the General Directorate of Public Security ( Section II of the Federal Ministry of the Interior ).

Competencies

The BMI is responsible for Security, the state borders and the organization of the service operation of the Federal Police. Matters of personal status, such as the right to a name, ( unless they are to accomplish by judicial authorities ) are also part of the remit as national citizenship.

The BMI is responsible for the organization and conduct of elections, referenda, plebiscites and referenda and organizes the internal administration of the lands. It also regulates matters of municipalities and associations of municipalities, insofar as these do not fall within the scope of the Federal Chancellery. Affairs of the Foundations and Funds being, unless they fall within the scope of another Ministry, are also the responsibility of the BMI, as well as the civil defense, the civil service and all matters of state administration that are not explicitly assigned to another Ministry or the provinces.

Organization

The BMI is divided into sections, groups, departments and units:

  • Federal Minister of the Interior Cabinet of the Minister
  • Section I: Executive Committee Department I/10: Chief Medical service
  • Group I / O - personnel, organization, budget, training Division I / 1: personnel matters
  • Division I / 2: Organization and Administrative Reform
  • Division I / 3: Budget and Controlling
  • Division I / 9: Security Academy
  • Division I / 4: International Affairs
  • Division I / 5: Competence Center Communications
  • Division I / 7: EU Affairs
  • Division I / 8: Log and Event Management
  • Department I/11: Office for Security Policy
  • Division II / 8: Principle and Strategy, DG
  • Division II / 9: Controlling DG
  • Unit for Observation ( SEO)
  • Special Unit Operations Command Cobra / Directorate of Special Units
  • Group II / A - organization, service operation, use Division II / 1: organization, service operation and analysis
  • Division II / 2: use matters (including Executive Service)
  • Division II / 7: Flight police
  • Department II/10: Resource and effect control
  • Department II/12: Transport Service of the Federal Police
  • Division II / 3: Aliens Police and Border Control Service
  • Department II/13: civil defense, crisis and disaster management (including Federal Alarm Centre and alarm prevention )
  • Division III / 6: Caucus
  • Group III / A - legistics and legal Division III / 1: legistics
  • Division III / 3: Security Administration ( passport matters )
  • Division III / 7: Legal Affairs and Policy (including the civil service )
  • Division III / 4: residence and citizenship being
  • Division III / 5: Asylum and Care
  • Division III / 9: primary care and federal care
  • Department III/10: Elementary and human rights matters
  • Division IV / IR: Internal Audit
  • Division IV / 5: Procurement
  • Division IV / 7: Memorials and War Graves
  • Group IV / A - economy, space and technology Division IV / 1: Technical Equipment
  • Division IV / 3: construction matters and space management
  • Division IV / 4: Central Services
  • Division IV / 2: KIT- applications and services
  • Division IV / 6: ICT security and e-government
  • Division IV / 8: KIT infrastructure and services
  • Division V / 1: Fundamental Issues Integration
  • Department V / 2: Integration Coordination
  • Division V / 3: Promotions Integration

Under federal Minister Strasser was the old structure of the Section II into groups ( Group A: Federal Police, Group B: Gendarmerie Central Command, Group C: state police service, Group D: Criminal police offices Service, Group E: administrative police offices service and group F: planning and training ) in favor of a division into departments and units changed. In 2010, the groups were re-introduced in section II.

Historical development

The predecessor institutions of BMI were called by 1918-1919 State Ministry of the Interior, after a merger with the Ministry of Education until 1920, the state Office of the Interior and Education. With the enactment of the Federal Constitutional Law, the term changed in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Education. 1923, the Ministry was incorporated into the Federal Chancellery, where - as a portfolio of the affairs of the Security Forces and the internal management - remained until 1938. From 1929, the Department Head led the official title of Minister ( Internal Affairs ). From 1932 there was also a special Federal Minister of Security Forces, also reports to the Chancellor. Since 1945, the current name of the Federal Ministry of the Interior has stock. In the Federal Government Faymann I consisted of 21 April 2011 to the swearing-in ceremony of the new government on 16 December 2013, a State Secretariat for Integration in the Ministry of the Interior, Secretary of State was Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP ).

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