Posted on 01/13/2022 6:34:57 PM PST by rktman
Ex-officers up to 70 years of age are being pulled out of retirement in Upper-Austria to help enforce national lockdown rules in the province.
Previously retired officers up to 70 years of age have been asked to return to active service in order to help enforce lockdown rules in the province.
The state police department — under the instruction of Governor Thomas Stelzer — wrote to around 700 officers late last year to request they return to active duty.
While those who accept the request will not be given a police uniform, according to a report by Kronen Zeitung, they will be considered to be in active service, and are to be deployed for 39 hours per week.
The state is now in the process of attempting to return some of those contacted to active duty.
“We have received feedback from 37 police officers who have been contacted, and they are now receiving their documents,” the governor’s office told the publication. “Nobody has signed it yet, and admissions interviews have to be held.”
Retired state officials have also been contacted regarding their potential interest in becoming a COVID rule inspector in Upper Austria, while the state has reportedly hired an additional 375 external employees to help deal with the crisis caused by the Chinese Coronavirus.
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The state is now in the process of attempting to return some of those contacted to active duty.
More jackboots needed
Good way to kill your retired cops.
It's the new Volkssturm.
Nice way to destroy trust in the police.
I fear that sooner or later, our “woke” military will be directed for the same purpose.
Hopefully, there will be enough intelligent ones there to know that “Woke” is a sign of true idiocy.
> It’s the new Volkssturm. <
Good one. Appropriate on many levels.
Weird huh. Wasn’t there some assclown that came from Austria and started some crap about 75/80 years ago?
His name was Hitler, and by trade a house painter, but he possessed the gift of gab and ignorant people fell for him hook line and sinker. You would think people have learned their lesson, but apparently not. As the old saying goes ‘History has a habit of repeating itself’
A house painter. Interesting psychosis. Thanks for posting that.
it’s bad enough, for those still serving to say i’m only following orders under duress
but no, these azzholes, are SIGNING IN to get back in the game... no excuses, no quarter
From the comments section of the article:
Al bronx61 • a day ago
They are “Beamte” = state employees with tenure or “for life”. They are required to do so by law. In fact they are not in retirement but “out of duty” (ausser Dienst) and can be recalled at any time.
Ppl choose Beamten-status over employee status for:
-impossibility to get fired, but for extreme reasons like felonies
-80% pension of last salary instead of 60% retirement
-cheaper loans
-etc
Downsides:
-its illegal to strike or be member of a union
-you never retire but you go “out of duty” and can be recalled, like here, until you die,
Only government employees can be Beamte. It exists so in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein... maybe Luxemburg. All the German speaking countries.
Thanks for the info.
You’re most welcome, rktman.
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