Polizeidirektion Wien, Police headquarters in Schottenring, Austria

The Vienna Police Directorate occupies a reinforced concrete skeleton building at Schottenring 7–9, filled with prefabricated elements, on a 3,551 m² site between Heßgasse and Hohenstaufengasse. Designed by Alfred Dreier and built 1969–1971, it has three basement levels (including an underground garage), a ground floor, six upper floors and a roof level. A helipad on the roof was first used on 20 January 1977.

The current building was erected 1969–1971 to plans by Alfred Dreier as a steel-concrete skeleton filled with prefabricated elements, with three basement levels, a ground floor, six upper floors and a roof level. Full operations began in 1974 under police president Karl Reidinger. Its site between Heßgasse and Hohenstaufengasse had held the Ringtheater, destroyed by fire in 1881, then the Sühnhaus, destroyed in 1945; the plot lay empty for 15 years after the 1954 purchase decision. Since 1 September 2012 it has housed the Landespolizeidirektion Wien.

The site between Heßgasse and Hohenstaufengasse once held the Ringtheater, destroyed by fire on 8 December 1881, and then the Sühnhaus, ruined in 1945. A memorial plaque mounted on the front in 1982 recalls the victims of the Ringtheater fire, the worst theatre blaze in Vienna's history, and the Sühnhaus. Inside, a plaque in the vestibule of the first-floor festival hall honours police officers murdered by the Nazis; it was dedicated on 1 November 1946 at the Palais Erzherzog Wilhelm.

The building is not open to the public; it can be viewed from the outside while walking along the Schottenring. The site lies between Heßgasse and Hohenstaufengasse, with its rear facing Maria-Theresien-Straße. A memorial plaque on the front facade recalls the 1881 Ringtheater fire and the Sühnhaus that stood here until 1945.

A memorial plaque added to the front facade in 1982 commemorates the victims of the 1881 Ringtheater fire, the deadliest theatre fire in Vienna's history, and the Sühnhaus that later stood on the site. The building's roof holds a helipad first used on 20 January 1977.