Helping out every day

Upper Austrian police against Viennese “Gsindl”

Every day, police officers from the provinces have to help out in Vienna with a platoon from the on-call unit.(Bild: APA/Florian Wieser, Krone KREATIV)

Moving out to get a grip on juvenile crime in Vienna: For the past week, this has not only been the mission of the police in the provincial capital, but also from the "province". A riot unit is deployed there every day, and officers from Upper Austria have been deployed twice. The experiences were sometimes startling.

"Our colleagues from the provinces are supporting us in the fight against gang crime. The operation has been running since July 9th and how long the support will be needed is still open," said the Ministry of the Interior in response to an inquiry from "Krone". The main aim is to crack down in Vienna's tenth district, especially around the hotspot Reumannplatz. A ban on weapons is expected to remain in place here until October 1st of this year, following repeated attacks, particularly by young people. And in order to relieve the burden on officers in Vienna, units from Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Styria and Burgenland are arriving every day. On Tuesday and Thursday, 25 officers from the Upper Austria on-call unit were deployed.