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The Federal Security Guard Corps (Bundessicherheitswachekorps, Sicherheitswache, SW) was an armed and uniformed civilian guard body of the Republic of Austria assigned to police the Federal Police Directorates of Eisenstadt, Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Leoben, Linz, Salzburg, Schwechat, Steyr, St. Pölten, Villach, Wels, Vienna and Wiener Neustadt (maintenance of public peace, order and security).
The corps existed from 1869 until it was merged with the Federal Gendarmerie and the Criminal Investigation Corps to form the Federal Police Guard in 2005.
The current Federal Police (Bundespolizei) is the national and principal law enforcement agency of Austria.
The Federal Police was created on 1 July 2005 by the merger of the Federal Security Guard Corps, the Criminal Police Corps and the Federal Gendarmerie.
The Austrian Federal Gendarmerie policed most of the country, and the Polizei (Federal Security Guard Corps) policed Austria’s major urban centres such as Vienna, Salzburg and Graz.
