Directorate General for Public Security

Directorate General for Public Security
Agency overview
FormedSeptember 23, 1930 (1930-09-23)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionAustria
Constituting instrument
  • Security Policing Act
Operational structure
Overseen byFranz Ruf, Director General
HeadquartersPalais Modena, Innere Stadt, Vienna
Agency executives
  • Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, Director of the DSN
  • GEN Andreas Holzer, Director of the BK
  • Bernhard Treibenreif, Director of the DSE
  • Reinhard Schnakl, Director of the ORK
  • GEN Michael Takács, Director of the BPD
Parent agencyMinistry of the Interior
Child agencies
Website
www.bmi.gv.at

The Directorate General for Public Security (Generaldirektion für die öffentliche Sicherheit, "GD" or "GDföS") is the governing body of general law enforcement in Austria and a division of the Ministry of the Interior. It oversees the

  1. Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service (DSN),
  2. Criminal Intelligence Service Austria (BK),
  3. Directorate for Special Units/Special Intervention Unit Cobra (DSE),
  4. Directorate Organisation, Resources and Crisis Management GD (ORK),
  5. Federal Police Directorate (BPD).

The Directorate General is headquartered in the Palais Modena, Vienna.