Austria

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The Police in Austria belongs to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI).
Within the MOI the Section II - the "General Directorate for Public Security" is responsible for the Police in Austria.

In the nine of the Austrian provinces (Vorarlberg, Tirol, Salzburg, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna and Burgenland) Police Headquarters, (so called "Landespolizeikommando") are responsible for the organisation of the Police within their provinces.

These Police Headquarters are further subdivided into Police Districts, which are in charge to organise the tasks of the Police Inspections.

Police officers in Austria are not only in charge to perform normal police work to ensure public security. Moreover the Police in Austria is also responsible to control the trains. Especially after the abolishment of the external Schengen borders so called "Compensatory Measures" are performed on main railroads in Austria in order to avoid illegal migration and cross border crime.

Such measures are planned from the "OZ - AGM" which is the "Organisational Center for Compensatory Measures".
Measures planed by the OZ - AGM are based on analysis from several sources, like e.g. from the Central Criminal Department and are intelligence driven.

Officers who are deployed at the OZ - AGM are permitted to perform their duties in the entire territory of Austria.

Beside the performance of  "Compensatory Measures" the main task of the Police is of course the  prevention and repression of crimes in order to guarantee the safety on board of the trains and the public order and securty in railway stations.