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 State Security and Intelligence
  • GEN Andreas Holzer, Director of Criminal Intelligence
  • Bernhard Treibenreif, Director of Special Operations
  • Christian Stella, Head of the Aerial Police
Parent agencyMinistry of the Interior
Child agencies
Website
www.bmi.gv.at

The Directorate General for Public Security (Generaldirektion für die öffentliche Sicherheit, "GDföS") is the governing body of general law enforcement in Austria and a division of the Ministry of the Interior. It oversees the Federal Police, the Criminal Intelligence Service, the Intelligence Directorate, the EKO Cobra, and the Aerial Police.

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