Justizwache

[1] The Justizwache is a uniformed security guard corps, organized in a military manner and provided with executive powers.

In addition, the use of the electric shock gun Taser X26 in the Austrian prisons was temporarily permitted from 10 November 2004 to 20 February 2008, but after massive protests, the Minister of Justice resumed the use of the non-lethal weapon.

[4] Before 2006, the corps insignia of the judicial guard was as follows: within a round border was a binding shield, represented by Austria's colors red-white-red, which was partially covered by a vertical sword.

A band connected the legal symbols with a laurel wreath, which was based on dignity and honoring all persons involved in the administration of justice.

It thus deviates only marginally from the corps badge of the Police, in which the Austrian coat of arms is surrounded by an oak leaf wreath.