2023-09-01 09:05:22
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner spoke of the “biggest reform since the gendarmerie and police were merged”. The goal is to adapt the executive to the new challenges and “to be modern, up-to-date and powerful in the fight once morest crime”. The criminal service reform is “a well-rounded and coherent package in the age of digitization, analogue is no longer enough,” said Franz Ruf, Director General for Public Safety. It is an “important step to keep the organization fit for the future”.
Karner named three main areas of the reform. In the area of structure and organization, the so-called criminal investigation assistance centers (KADs) in the regions will be “a central element” in the future. These should bring the “corresponding know-how to the regions, it’s not regarding introducing an additional level”, stated Karner. There should be 38 such KADs throughout Austria. These should cover the three major areas of cybercrime, crime scene work and prevention. Similar In addition to the Federal Criminal Police Office, there should also be separate areas for organized crime in the State Criminal Police Offices in the future.
As the second area, the Minister of the Interior named the area of education, training and further education. Here the police should be made fit in the field of cybercrime. In the future, additional internet modules will be offered in basic police training. In addition, so-called cybercrime training centers are to be set up in all nine federal states. “We need new ICT solutions (information and communication technology, note), Ruf explained. The training centers should lead to the nationwide training and further education of “all police officers”, said Ruf. Within five years “all colleagues should be trained “Said Andreas Holzer, head of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BK).
700 new jobs in the next five years
According to the Minister of the Interior, the third focus of the reform is the area of additional jobs “that will become necessary”. Around 700 jobs are to be created over the next five years. In addition, around 2,000 jobs for police officers are to be upgraded, said Ruf.
Even before the presentation, there was criticism that staff would be withdrawn from smaller departments as a result of the newly created priority departments. Trade unionists also pointed out that there is already a recruiting problem, which is why filling 700 permanent positions is viewed critically.
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