Overview
- Finance Minister Christian Piwarz handed a symbolic key to Interior Minister Armin Schuster and acting precinct chief Thomas Stolzenberg to mark the formal opening.
- The €13 million, three-story complex spans roughly 2,900 square meters, has housed 86 employees since December, and is staffed around the clock.
- The new location lies outside the floodplain of the Freiberger Mulde, replacing premises severely affected in the 2002 and 2013 floods.
- An initial plan of about €8.5 million over roughly two years expanded to around six years and €13 million due to poor subsurface conditions, pandemic disruptions, wartime price and material shocks, and a late electrical contractor change.
- Facilities include interrogation and technical areas, a forensic room for fingerprints and DNA, four spartan detention cells with a €120 overnight fee, and a Daniel Rode artwork featuring real bullet impacts applied by LKA specialists.