Finale from Grätzlpolizei: emotional missions and animal worries!

Finale from Grätzlpolizei: emotional missions and animal worries!

Wien, Österreich - On June 15, 2025, the relay finale of "Grätzlpolizei", a documentary format on ATV, ends in Vienna with a double episode, which highlights the everyday work of district police officers in Vienna. In the last episodes, the diverse challenges that the Grätzl police officers have to face daily are visible. The term "Grätzl" describes a small district or a neighborhood in Vienna. The officials are responsible for everyday problems such as neighborhood disputes, noise complaints and social emergencies.

One of the most emotional missions shows how a cyclist, after a police warning, expresses suicidal thoughts and must be transferred to the psychiatry of the Ottakring Clinic. Another incident takes place in a bakery in Vienna-Josefstadt, where a guest shows threatening behavior and clarify the police about the legal options and requirements for house bans.

The tasks of the Grätzel police officers

Another commitment concerns a family of renters in Vienna-Penzing, which can no longer be found after symptoms. The apartment is abandoned and a relative reports of a trip to Bulgaria. These cases illustrate the urgency and variance of the operations that the Grätzl police officers must be mastered.

In addition, Andrea Fürsorge for animals and takes care of the dachshund of a begging couple while Horst picks up a kittens because the owner cannot pay for the castration. Such empathetic missions make the everyday life of the Grätzl police officers particularly challenging, but also fulfilling.

In another emotional commitment, a taxi driver is faced with the election to go to prison because he has over 2,000 euros in traffic penalties. Horst and Erwin also discover human faeces in the "basement of horror" and indications of homeless people, which illustrates the precarious situation of some people in Vienna.

The "Safe together" team in Liesing

parallel to the double episode of the "Grätzlpolizei" Liesing launched a new "safe" team together, which also deals with local challenges. Katharina Steiner coordinates the activities of the Liesing city police command. The Grätzelpliden Ernst Grohotolski, Andreas Wieser and Harald Fragner are contact persons for citizens in their responsible rayons and contribute to dispute settlement in conflicts in playgrounds and problems such as false parking.

Grohotolski reports that he often has to intervene on playgrounds where younger children are displaced by older ones. He emphasizes the importance of his presence to clarify and avoid conflict. Fragner and Wieser also take care of questions about parking and traffic safety, especially against the background of new residential areas and upcoming openings of recreation locations such as the Atzgersdorfer Stadtpark.

The officials find their work challenging, but also important for living together in Liesing.

research in police and security work is also a topic of growing interest. Police and security work is bundled at the Vienna FH Wiener Neustadt, whereby a newly founded Institute for Police and Security Research is the interface between the police, the Interior Ministry and the company. Under the direction of Georg Kodydek, the institute examines central issues such as cybercrime, AI and the security needs of the citizens.

kodydek also carries out experiments to analyze the behavior of people of different social backgrounds and to understand how diversity works in working groups. The training of police officers in Austria takes place exclusively at the FH Wiener Neustadt, which is a modern and well-founded basis for future police work.

The operations and challenges outlined in "Grätzlpolizei" and the foot so-called "Safe together safely" initiative form a realistic picture of police work in Vienna and document the social influence of the police on daily life.

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