Special Task Force

COBRAScuba Diving Unit

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

MANPOWER

12 Officers/Divers Education in own

Diving School - 6 weeks

current Training - 4 x month

Linz

Wr. Neustadt

Wiener Neustadt Diving School/8 Divers Linz 4 Divers

AREA COMPETENCE / THE ENTIRE TERRITORY OF AUSTRIA

TASKSTASKS

Service unit for all Police Stations

• Searching and recovery dead bodiespeaces of evidenceweaponsin cases of criminal

investigations

• Searching in cases of pollution of the environment• Searching for explosive devices

• Maximum diving depth 50 meters

• Diving in twos

• With compressed air

SAFETY REGULATIONS

Divers building a chain,Divers building a chain,if possible video recordingif possible video recording

One or two divers going on a stretched rope groping with hands.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

INTERVENTION UNITINTERVENTION UNIT

For special law enforcement operations of medium and

high risk.

TASKS AND DUTIESTASKS AND DUTIES

– Anti Terror sectors

– „traditional“ sectors

(hostage rescue, amuck situations, storming hijacked

aircraft, arrest of dangerous suspects, safeguarding

money transports,…)

– VIP protection

– Air Marshal Service

– protection of Austrian diplomatic missions

TASKS AND DUTIESTASKS AND DUTIES

Anti - terror– Operational missions

– Developement and coordination of preventive and

repressive counter measures in relation to new

terrorist scenarios

– International cooperation