Gerald Tatzgern

• Head of Department, Fight against Human Trafficking and Smuggling
• Criminal Intelligence Service, Austria

Brigade General Gerald Tatzgern is heading the Department for Combating Migrant Smuggling, Human Trafficking and Special Investigations within the Criminal Intelligence Service Austria.

He started his Police-career in 1988 in Vienna. After a few years in the Special SWAT Team Vienna, he worked as an Investigator.

Since 2002, he is responsible for the coordination and investigation in the field of Combating human trafficking, trans border prostitution and human smuggling in Austria. In particular, his Department is leading international Investigations.

In May 2016 he could establish the “JOO – Joint Operational Office” in Vienna which extremely enhances the operational cooperation within the law enforcements in Europe.

He is a Court Authorised and Certified Expert on Action against Migrant Smuggling and Human Trafficking and authorised and Certified Examiner and Expert on Action against Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (Austrian Standards ISO/IEC 17024 – AS+C P69)

2018/2019 he was the Driver and is currently the Co-Driver of EUROPOL EMPACT Migrant Smuggling (European Multidisciplinary Platform against Crime Threats) within the European Union.

He holds a Bachelor and Master Degree (Police Leadership and Strategic Security Management) at the University for applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt.

He is well known as lecturer on international platforms and academies, as well as Austrian Universities as University of Graz, Wiener Neustadt, University of Vienna, University of Linz and at the Austrian Danube University (Master program Migration Management), and international Organizations (UNODC, OSZE, FRONTEX, ICMPD, IOM).