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Law Enforcement Officers, bodies entrusted with the maintenance of 
public order. They act as supporting agents of an authority and have 
to carry out the orders of that authority. They include the following 
bodies: Bundesgendarmerie (federal gendarmerie), 
Bundessicherheitswache (federal security police, subordinated to the 
Federal Police Authority), officers of the criminal investigation 
department, plain-clothes officers, subordinated to the Federal Police 
Authority), staedtische Sicherheitswache or Stadtwache (urban security 
guards, e.g. in Baden bei Wien, Waidhofen an der Ybbs) 
acting as local police forces, Justizwache (part of the Ministry of 
Justice, guarding prisons and penal institutions), border police and 
customs officers. Under certain circumstances, which are laid down in 
the Use of Weapons Law of 1969, law enforcement agents are allowed to 
use weapons (e.g. justifiable self-defence, or as a last resort to 
prevent dangerous criminals from escaping).


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