Federal Investigation Bureau (Austria)
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The Federal Investigation Bureau Bundeskriminalamt (.BK) was created in Austria to effectively combat crime nationwide and to perform international police cooperation functions. This happened in 2002 with a special law called the Federal Investigation Bureau Law (Bundeskriminalamtgesetz). The .BK is also sometimes referred to as the Austrian Criminal Intelligence Service.
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[edit] Missions
The main missions of the .BK are international cooperation, investigations, crime prevention and collating crime statistics. It is Austria’s national central bureau for the European Police Office (Europol), Schengen Information System and International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol).
[edit] Structure
The .BK is subordinate to the Generaldirektion für die öffentliche Sicherheit (General Directorate of Public Safety) in the Federal Interior Ministry in Vienna. It is therefore not directly linked with the Federal Police, which is a separate organisation within the General Directorate of Public Safety. This new organisation was conceived as a better solution to combatting supraregional and serious crime due to its structure, specially trained personnel and equipment.
[edit] Facts
The abbreviation ".BK" was chosen so as not to be confused with the Austrian Federal Chancellor's Office (Bundeskanzleramt) and the German Federal Investigation Bureau (also called Bundeskriminalamt) which are both abbreviated "BKA". The full stop before the BK is part of the corporate design of the Interior Ministry . The .BK's HQ is in the Alsergrund district of Vienna on Josef-Holaubek-Platz.
[edit] See also
Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany)
[edit] Web links
http://www.bundeskriminalamt.at Bundeskriminalamt in German
[edit] References
Federal Investigation Bureau Law (Bundeskriminalamtgesetz), published 2002.
