Directorate General for the Public Security

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The Directorate General for the Public Security (Generaldirektion für die öffentliche Sicherheit, "GDföS") of Austria is a department of the Ministry of the Interior serving as the professional leadership and overseeing body for most of the country's law enforcement agencies. It is led by the Director General for the Public Security, currently Peter Goldgruber.

The GDföS is headquartered in the Ministry of the Interior at the Minoritenplatz, Vienna.

Organization[]

The legal basis for the General Directorate for Public Security is paragraph 6 of the Sicherheitspolizeigesetz ("Federal Security Police Act"). Several law enforcement agencies that are not part of the Federal Police are subordinated to the General Directorate:

• Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämfpung (BVT): Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism
• Bundeskriminalamt (BK): Federal Criminal Police Office
• Bundespolizei: Federal Police Service
• Einsatzkommando Cobra (EKO Cobra): Federal SWAT and special forces unit
• Flugpolizei: Air Police
• Sondereinheit für Observation (SEO): Special Unit for Covered Technical Surveillance

References[]

External links[]

• (in German) Website of the Generaldirektion für die öffentliche Sicherheit on the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
• (in German) Badges and insignia of the General Director for Public Security