Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saarland
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| Founded | 1957[1] |
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| Headquarters | Saarbrücken |
| Employees | 60 |
| Website | Webseite |
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saarland is an intelligence service and the state authority for the protection of the constitution in Saarland, based in Saarbrücken. The 2018 budget allocated material resources for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution amounting to around 525,300 euros and the staffing plan totalled 60 positions.[2] Until 2018, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, founded in 1957, was an independent state authority before it was incorporated as Department V into the Saarland Ministry of the Interior, Building and Sport.
The legal basis for the work of the Saarland State Office for the Protection of the Constitution is the Saarland Constitution Protection Act (SVerfSchG) in the version of 24 March 1993, last amended by the law of 26 October 2010 (Official Gazette I p. 1406)[3]
Control
"Due to the manageable size of the state and the structural conditions of the individual observation areas, no annual report on the protection of the constitution is published in Saarland"[4]
However, since 2013, a situation report by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been published.[5]
Organisation
The department head is responsible for a staff unit (security affairs and counter-espionage) and four departments[6]
- Section V1 (Policy and Legal Affairs)
- Section V2 (right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism, foreign extremism and terrorism)
- Section V3 (Islamism, Islamic terrorism)
- Section V4 (intelligence gathering)