The training equipment of the Judicial Guard Task Force caused a stir on the national holiday. Now the ministry is trying to explain.
Since its creation, the Judiciary Guard’s ‘heavy’ task force has dealt with extremely difficult situations in the implementation of sentences and measures 24 hours a day – and it does so with professionalism, commitment and commitment. Despite everything, the show on the occasion of the national holiday on Vienna’s Heldenplatz provoked great anger and criticism. The reason for this: unloaded training weapons and partly untested protective equipment, and this with an increased terror alert level in the country!
“International standard”
But the responsible ministry is of course relaxed about the matter. When asked several times, it was stated succinctly: “For safety reasons, training weapons are carried and used during demonstrations instead of service weapons. This is a safety standard during exercises that can certainly be observed internationally. The prison guards who did not participate were all equipped with service weapons.”
Furthermore, responsibility for protecting the public – “due to relevant legal mandates” – should be transferred to colleagues in the military and police. “An intervention by the bailiff would have been legally possible, for example in the context of self-defense or emergency assistance,” the postscript emphasizes. Fortunately, that was again not necessary.
Source: Krone
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