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The '''Central Security Office''' (Italian: ''Ufficio Centrale di Sicurezza'') of the National Fascist Party is the central organisation responsible for political and legal affairs: it studies and oversees all legal enforcement authorities, including the Public Security and the Prosecution, making it a very influential organ in the formulation of security policy (although the detailed policy making and implementation are left to the relevant organs). Within its stated duties, the Commission also aims to combat terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism. The Commission, in addition to its political supervision powers against State bodies, also holds semi-compulsory "study sessions" to politically indoctrinate and inform officers on party policies. At last, the Commissions (both national and provincial ones) are charged with balancing the interests of the police, courts and prosecutors, ensuring the rule of law (at least until it does not obstacle the Fascist Revolution).


The Central Security Office (Italian: ''Ufficio Centrale di Sicurezza'', U.C.S.) is a National Fascist Party body with Public Security functions. The organization's stated duty is to fight all political enemies of the Fascist Regime and provide coordination of the various law enforcement joint bodies.
== Mission ==
The public security apparatus, prosecutors, and courts are autonomous of each other, but they are under the leadership of the Fascist State and under its political supervision and guidance. The Central Security Office develops P.N.F. policy for law and law enforcement by assisting the Duce to study and formulate guidelines and policies for political and legal work. While the U.C.S. is an agenda-setting and a policy-making body, it is not an executive authority. It not only supervises the police, but also the prosecutors, the courts, and makes sure that everyone is under Fascist supervision. Among the most important duties of the Central Security Office there is also the organization of the [[Law enforcement in the Kingdom of Italy#Centre for Political Education of P.S.|political-ideological training]] of the police apparatus in Italy.<br>
The role of the Central Security Office is, therefore, to set the broad policy framework in which each administration, according to the directives of the Duce and the Government, has to integrate. In social policy field, its functions go from setting major policies of social management, to coordinating all national and local work on this field, and even to dispatching central cadres to guide or control local work.


The main instrument the U.C.S. operates through is O.V.R.A., tasked with the protection of the Regime and the carrying out of independent intelligence service. Its activities include intelligence-gathering, political-criminal investigation, overseeing foreigners, monitoring public opinion.
== Central Commission ==
The Central Security Office at its top consists of a commission providing policy insight and political guidance for security and legal enforcement affairs. The Commission consists of ten Commissioners and it is headed by a Director General, appointed by the Duce of the Fascism on Political Secretary's proposal, after hearing the Political Directory. The Director General is a general officer of the M.V.S.N. and usually is a Political Directory member, due to the great sensitivity of the position, almost always belonging to the dominant faction. The current Director General is G.N.R. Lieutenant General Renato Saltamartini, who is also a member of the Political Directory.


The Central Security Office is a functional body of the M.V.S.N. and as such subordinate to the Commandant General of the M.V.S.N. With regards to law enforcement responsibilities, the U.C.S. is subordinate also to the Director-General of Public Security.
The Central Commission of the Central Security Office often holds joint meetings with [[Law enforcement in the Kingdom of Italy#National Committee of the Order and Public Security|National Committee of the Order and Public Security]] or with other security bodies such as the [[Intelligence Community of the Kingdom of Italy#National Intelligence Committee|National Intelligence Committee]].


== Organization ==
'''Director General'''
[[File:Public Security Establishment.png|thumbnail|right|Organizational chart of the public security establishment in the Kingdom of Italy.]]
* Lgt. Gen. Renato Saltamartini
The Central Security Office is divided into 15 offices and Directorates:
* Personnel and Organization Office
* Administration, Law, and Finance Office
* Archives and Propaganda Office
** Central Political Records
* O.V.R.A. Liaison office - Internal political surveillance
* O.V.R.A. Liaison office - External political surveillance
* O.V.R.A. Liaison office - Leaders protection
* G.N.R. Liaison office - Internal Troops
* P.S. Liaison office - Political issues
* G.R.d.F. Liaison office - Financial issues
* Central Anti-drugs Directorate
* Central Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate
* Central Directorate for Personal Security
* Central Directorate for Protection of Strategic Industrial Sites
* General Inspectorate for action against terrorism
* Political Confinement Office
* Special Court for State Security
All central offices and directorates, with the exception of the liaison offices, are directed by M.V.S.N. officers with specific skills in that field; internal subdivisions of each Directorate - which constitute the hearth of the operational activities - are directed by senior officers (or officials) of all police and security organizations involved.


== G.N.R. Internal Troops ==
'''Deputy Director'''
The internal troops are the main National Royal Guard force and they are functionally subordinated to the Central Security Office. They are used to support and reinforce the Public Security instrument, deal with large-scale crowd control, internal armed conflicts, maximum-security prison guard and safeguarding of highly-important facilities like nuclear power plants. During wartime, the G.N.R. Internal Troops falls under Armed Forces command and fulfil the missions of local defence and rear area security.<br />
* National Inspector of the P.N.F. Marcello Diamante
Internal Troops belong to the National Royal Guard and consist of the 18 "''M''" Battalions, the "''M''" Marines Regiment "''San Giorgio''" and the special forces units. They are operationally directed by the Director General of the Central Security Office.


== Central Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate ==
'''Secretary'''
The Central Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (''Direzione Centrale Investigativa Antimafia'', Di.C.I.A.) is an investigative body, established in 1993 within the Central Security Office, with mono-functional competence, consisting of specialized personnel coming from all security and police forces, with the sole task of ensuring the application, in a coordinated manner, of preventive investigations relating to organized crime, as well as the subsidiary task of carrying out criminal investigations relating exclusively to Mafia. In particular, the preventive investigations are aimed at defining the structural mafia connotations and connections objectives and operating procedures, both at domestic and international level. The Directorate is the investigative arm of the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, headed by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, who in turn depends on the Prosecutor General at the Court of Cassation.<br />
* National Inspector of the P.N.F. Renato Porcu
The Directorate is headed by a Director, selected in rotation among the Inspectors General (Rank V) of Public Security, the General Officers of the Royal Guard of Finance and the General Officers of the M.V.S.N. who have gained specific experience in the field of combating organized crime. For the exercise of its functions, the Director uses two Deputy Directors who are responsible, respectively, for overseeing operational activities and administrative ones. The central support structure is composed of:
* Cabinet Division;
* Department I - "Preventive Investigations"
* Department II - "Judicial Investigations"
* Department III - "International Relations"
The Di.C.I.A. also makes use of a peripheral system, structured on twelve Operational Centres and seven Detached Sections that, through a clearly defined boundary system, have jurisdiction over the entire national territory.


== Central Directorate for Personal Security ==
'''Members'''
The entity responsible for the personal security is the Minister of the Interior, who performs his functions through the Central Security Office. In turn, the U.C.S. internal structure is the Central Directorate for Personal Security (Italian: ''Direzione Centrale per la Sicurezza Personale'', Di.Ce.S.P.).<br />
* Andrea Scanzio, Prime President of the Supreme Court of Cassation;
Its functional area of responsibility relates to the preservation and protection of eminent persons (both for institutional and political reasons) both domestic and foreign, as well as persons who are subject to hazards or threats, in the person of his or her family. Outside of the high political personalities, the dangers which the Central Directorate must respond to are of a terrorist nature or related to organized crime, drug trafficking, arms trafficking or radioactive material trafficking. Finally, the Central Directorate is responsible to avoid the dangers related to activities of foreign intelligence. The Central Directorate may also adopt measures to arrange flights to ensure the safety of the leading figures or other persons subject to dangers or threats.<br />
* Giorgio Davoli, Prosecutor General of the King-Duce at the Supreme Court of Cassation;
The special tasks of the Central Directorate include the collection and analysis of all the information related to personal situations at risk that [[O.V.R.A. (Kingdom of Italy)|O.V.R.A.]], the [[Military Information Service (Kingdom of Italy)|Military Information Service]], the judiciary, the police and security forces and the [[M.V.S.N. (Italian Social Republic)|Militia]] are required to provide, taking care also connections with the provincial offices. The Directorate also deals with the services and personnel strategic and operational planning, technical training of personnel employed in the security services and the check of the special tools used for protection services and their supervision. Finally, the Central Directorate also provides the activation of the procedures of emergency.<br />
* Antonino Sanna, President of the Special Court for State Security;
The Central Directorate is a partial exception to the general leadership and composition rule: it is headed by a Prefect of 2nd Class, a Major General of the Royal Police Corps or a Consul General of the M.V.S.N. The head-quarters personnel can be assigned to the Central Directorate from all State administrations and corps, from all security forces, both Party and State ones, while the security services and surveillance are carried out from specialized offices and units of Public Security or the Militia.<br />
* Falco De Caro, Chief of Police - Director General of Public Security;
For reasons of exceptional and temporary nature, drivers of vehicles in use at high personalities may be granted the powers and the functions of Agent of Public Security, in order to allow the performance of a more effective action to prevent and protect the life of these personalities. Drivers appointed Agents of Public Security are allowed to use in vehicles conducted siren and revolving blue light beacon.
* Gen. C.A.I.S. Benito Frusan, Commandant-General of the Royal Carabinieri;
* Graziano De Falchi, Director-General of Criminal Affairs, Graces, Statistics and Records;
* Paolo Padovani, Director General of Preventive and Penitentiary Institutions.


=== Central Advisory Commission ===
=== Director General ===
The Central Advisory Commission (It: ''Commissione Consultiva Centrale'') is a body of the Central Directorate; the Commission, at the request of the Director, provides its opinion on the adoption, modification and revocation of protection measures and surveillance, as well as on all other matters, related to measures of protection and supervision, that the Director deems to submit.<br />
The Director General of the Central Security Office is the head of the Central Security Office, and is appointed by the Duce. The current post is Renato Saltamartini. Under the Director General, there are the members of the Standing Committee (the Deputy Director and the Secretary), and the members. The Director General of the Central Security Office is an important leading position of the national organization of the National Fascist Party.
The Central Directorate uses the Commission for the adoption of protective and supervision measures. The Commission is chaired by the Director of the Central Directorate itself, and is composed of one representative from each of the police forces involved, a representative of the O.V.R.A., a representative of the Militia, a representative of the Military Information Service, and three representatives of the National Fascist Party.


=== Peripheral organization ===
== Support organization ==
Any measure taken by the Director is communicated to the Prefect and Quaestor of the province affected by the execution of the decision adopted. In every Prefecture, as part of the [[Local government of the Kingdom of Italy#Cabinet and Divisions|Sixth Division]], operates the Provincial Office for Personal Security, responsible for collection and preliminary analysis of information related to personal situations at risk, as well as information connections with the Central Directorate. The Office makes use of the police forces in the province (Public Security and others), M.V.S.N. and officers specifically designated and appointed. The Prefect convenes and presides special coordination meetings, with the participation of the Quaestor, the commanders of the other police forces that may be present in the Province, the M.V.S.N. Commander and the official in charge of the Office for Personal Security. It can also be called on the Federal Secretary of the P.N.F.<br />
The Central Security Office is supported by some bureaus:
The Prefect, relying upon data collected and on coordination meetings, makes recommendations to the Central Directorate.
* Administrative Bureau
* Political Confinement Bureau
* U-7
* Office for Combating Anti-National Usury
* Centre for Political Education of P.S.
* Public Security Research Bureau
* Judicial Research Bureau
* Social Security Research Bureau
* Political Security Bureau
The Central Security Office shares some bureaus with the National Committee for Order and Public Security:
* Office for Railway Protection;
* Office for Floating Population;
* Office for Penitentiary policies;
* Office for the prevention of juvenile delinquency;
* Office for security in the school and surrounding areas.


== Central Directorate for Protection of Strategic Industrial Sites ==
=== U-7 ===
In Italy, goods and facilities protection varies according the owner and the status of the goods and facilities. Private, non-strategic goods and facilities are protected by the private security agencies, regulated by the Directorate-General of the Public Security and by the local Prefectures. If the industrial facilities are of strategic importance, they are protected by the Central Directorate for Protection of Strategic Industrial Sites (It.: ''Direzione Centrale per la Protezione di Siti Industriali Strategici'', Di.Ce.Pro.S.I.S.) regardless their ownership. However, it is unlikely that such facilities are of private (i.e. non-IRI) ownership. The Directorate was separated from the Labour Militia in 1979.<br>
Within the Central Security Office there is also a dedicated branch, whose specific purpose is to coordinate and direct the political persecution of the Jehovah's Witnesses, codenamed U-7 (from the initial letter of "''Geova''"). The U-7 is a security agency on its own, although it relies on O.V.R.A.. The U-7 frequently directs other state and party organs in the anti-Jehovah campaign. In order to do this, it is frequently headed by an high-ranking Party official.
The tasks of the Directorate are ensuring the protection of the specially designated workplace and keeping from entering their premises by unauthorized persons, the protection of such special workplaces from unauthorized filming, photographing, sketching and possible acts of sabotage and subversion, the protection of the workplace from public order disturbances, against damage, theft and robbery, including during transportation and handling. The Directorate has investigative/criminal intelligence tasks and duties; the external and perimetral surveillance duties are often entrusted to territorial M.V.S.N./C.P.R./C.C. units, while the site surveillance is carried out by the Directorate's personnel. Personnel of the Central Directorate for Protection of Strategic Industrial Sites has the right to identify persons within the workplace premises, conduct searches, stop a person caught in the act or suspected of having committed a crime in the workplace and all other powers entrusted to the agents and to the officers of public security. The Directorate must work in cooperation with units of fire protection and civil defence, must keep informed the Public Security and, through the Public Security, the judicial authority of of crimes and offences occurring on the premises. The Directorate personnel must therefore cooperate with all other security organs.<br>
The Directorate is headed by a Director, selected among the Inspectors General (Rank V) of Public Security and the General Officers of the M.V.S.N. who have gained specific experience in the field. For the exercise of its functions, the Director uses two Deputy Directors who are responsible, respectively, for overseeing operational activities and administrative ones. The central support structure is composed of:
* Cabinet Division;
* Department I - "Preventive Investigations"
* Department II - "Judicial Investigations"
* Department III - "Field Operations"


== Special Court for State Security ==
=== Office for Combating Anti-National Usury ===
The Special Court for State Security (It: ''Tribunale Speciale per la Sicurezza dello Stato'') is a special court of the Fascist Regime, competent to judge crimes against the security of the state and the regime, in order to conciliate security needs and respect of the rule of law. The Special Court is responsible for the punishment of a series of offences "against state security" and the reconstruction of dissolved associations, organizations or parties, anti-national propaganda activities abroad, terrorism, theft of public money and possession of explosives, if it is linked to a political reason. In war, the Special Court has other fields of jurisdiction, such as treason, espionage, fraud and breach of military supplies, or political offences such as association or subversive or anti-national propaganda committed by the military.<br />
The Office for Combating Anti-National Usury (''Ufficio per il Contrasto all'Usura antinazionale'') is the department of the Central Security Office which monitors, prevents and combats the phenomenon of anti-national usury on an operational and security level. The anti-national usury is conceptualised as any domestic, international and transnational financial manoeuvre aimed to unjustly impoverish the Italian Nation or to blackmail it.<br>
The state security courts (Courts+Presidency Council) is fully part of the regular court system. The Special Court as a whole has the power to warn, admonish, and convict the political defendants deemed dangerous to public order and security of the Regime: the Special Court operates according to the rules of the Military Penal Code of War.<br />
The Office is made up of representatives from various law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies, along with officials from the Foreign, Treasury and Corporations Ministries.<br>
The defence is only allowed after the indictment and the accused may be assisted by one defender, chosen from among the officers on duty at the court or among lawyers exercising their profession. However, the Sectional President at the request of the prosecutor can exclude the assistance of non-military defence, in cases where it deems it necessary for the public interest. In the proceedings before the Special Court is not allowed bail.<br />
While the political leaders create the conditions for usury against Italy to be discouraged and made less desirable, the technical bodies of the Bank of Italy and the Ministry of the Treasury take steps to neutralize the aspects negative from a technical-financial point of view. Finally, the Office coordinates the relevant results of the [[Intelligence Community of the Kingdom of Italy#Economic and Financial Security Subcommittee|collection of information]] and links it with security activities, both legal and extrajudicial, deemed to be useful to curtail threats.
The right to appeal a conviction in state security courts is limited to procedural grounds and with special limitations. Against its judgements, the appeal to the Presidency Council is allowed within thirty days from the publication of the case motivations; against President Council decisions, appeal to the Supreme Court of Cassation is allowed only under special circumstances.


=== Composition ===
== Provincial Commissions ==
The Court is unique throughout the state, but operates in five sections geographically determined. Each Section consists of:
All the Party Federations establish Security Commissions subordinated to the Central Security Office, which are mandated to watch over local security forces, including the Questure and, to a lesser degree, over the local Prosecutions. Provincial commissions also organize the provincial study sessions. However, Security Commission heads do not double nor act as police chiefs and have no direct authority over the Prefect: they manage political aspects of affairs examined by the [[Administration of Public Security (Italy)#Provincial Commission for the Public Order and Security|Provincial Commission for the Public Order and Security]]. In large municipalities, there may exist a Party's Municipal Security Commission, with responsibilities over the Municipal Police Corps.<br>
* A President, chosen among the general officers of the National Royal Italian Army, National Royal Italian Navy, National Royal Italian Air Force, Royal Police Corps (or other police corps with military status) and the Voluntary Militia for National Security, in permanent active duty and with proved competence in legal matters;
Peripheral commissions' other main responsibilities are to implement the guidelines assigned by the Government on the work of public security, the building of cadre teams, the comprehensive control of the work of maintaining social stability. The Commissions also have to supervise and coordinate the administrative departments to implement guidelines and policies of the National Fascist Party, especially in law enforcement.
* Five judges, chosen among officers of the M.V.S.N. having the rank of Consul in permanent active duty and with proved competence in legal matters;
* An ''Amicus Curiae'', without voting rights, chosen among the staff of military justice.
The Presidency Council (''Consiglio di Presidenza'') consists of the Prime President, appointed by the Duce of Italy, and of all five sectional Presidents.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Administration of Public Security (Italy)]]
* [[Chief of Police of the Kingdom of Italy]]
* [[Coast Guard (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[Corps of Penitentiary Police (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[General-Inspector of the Militarized Police Corps (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[Intelligence and Security Organization (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[Law enforcement in the Kingdom of Italy]]
* [[Law enforcement in the Kingdom of Italy]]
* [[Royal Carabinieri]]
* [[Royal Police Corps (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[National Fascist Party (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[National Fascist Party (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[M.V.S.N. (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[M.V.S.N. (Kingdom of Italy)]]
* [[National Defence Commission (Kingdom of Italy)]]


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Latest revision as of 17:34, 9 August 2023

Central Security Office
Ufficio Centrale di Sicurezza
National Fascist Party logo.svg
AbbreviationU.C.S.
Formation1990
TypeCommission directly reporting to the Duce
Legal statusActive
Location
  • Palazzo della Milizia, Roma, Italy
Region
Italy
Official language
Italian
Director General
Lt. Gen. Renato Saltamartini
Deputy Director
Marcello Diamante
(Other) Members
7
Secretary
Renato Porcu
Parent organization
National Fascist Party

The Central Security Office (Italian: Ufficio Centrale di Sicurezza) of the National Fascist Party is the central organisation responsible for political and legal affairs: it studies and oversees all legal enforcement authorities, including the Public Security and the Prosecution, making it a very influential organ in the formulation of security policy (although the detailed policy making and implementation are left to the relevant organs). Within its stated duties, the Commission also aims to combat terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism. The Commission, in addition to its political supervision powers against State bodies, also holds semi-compulsory "study sessions" to politically indoctrinate and inform officers on party policies. At last, the Commissions (both national and provincial ones) are charged with balancing the interests of the police, courts and prosecutors, ensuring the rule of law (at least until it does not obstacle the Fascist Revolution).

Mission

The public security apparatus, prosecutors, and courts are autonomous of each other, but they are under the leadership of the Fascist State and under its political supervision and guidance. The Central Security Office develops P.N.F. policy for law and law enforcement by assisting the Duce to study and formulate guidelines and policies for political and legal work. While the U.C.S. is an agenda-setting and a policy-making body, it is not an executive authority. It not only supervises the police, but also the prosecutors, the courts, and makes sure that everyone is under Fascist supervision. Among the most important duties of the Central Security Office there is also the organization of the political-ideological training of the police apparatus in Italy.
The role of the Central Security Office is, therefore, to set the broad policy framework in which each administration, according to the directives of the Duce and the Government, has to integrate. In social policy field, its functions go from setting major policies of social management, to coordinating all national and local work on this field, and even to dispatching central cadres to guide or control local work.

Central Commission

The Central Security Office at its top consists of a commission providing policy insight and political guidance for security and legal enforcement affairs. The Commission consists of ten Commissioners and it is headed by a Director General, appointed by the Duce of the Fascism on Political Secretary's proposal, after hearing the Political Directory. The Director General is a general officer of the M.V.S.N. and usually is a Political Directory member, due to the great sensitivity of the position, almost always belonging to the dominant faction. The current Director General is G.N.R. Lieutenant General Renato Saltamartini, who is also a member of the Political Directory.

The Central Commission of the Central Security Office often holds joint meetings with National Committee of the Order and Public Security or with other security bodies such as the National Intelligence Committee.

Director General

  • Lgt. Gen. Renato Saltamartini

Deputy Director

  • National Inspector of the P.N.F. Marcello Diamante

Secretary

  • National Inspector of the P.N.F. Renato Porcu

Members

  • Andrea Scanzio, Prime President of the Supreme Court of Cassation;
  • Giorgio Davoli, Prosecutor General of the King-Duce at the Supreme Court of Cassation;
  • Antonino Sanna, President of the Special Court for State Security;
  • Falco De Caro, Chief of Police - Director General of Public Security;
  • Gen. C.A.I.S. Benito Frusan, Commandant-General of the Royal Carabinieri;
  • Graziano De Falchi, Director-General of Criminal Affairs, Graces, Statistics and Records;
  • Paolo Padovani, Director General of Preventive and Penitentiary Institutions.

Director General

The Director General of the Central Security Office is the head of the Central Security Office, and is appointed by the Duce. The current post is Renato Saltamartini. Under the Director General, there are the members of the Standing Committee (the Deputy Director and the Secretary), and the members. The Director General of the Central Security Office is an important leading position of the national organization of the National Fascist Party.

Support organization

The Central Security Office is supported by some bureaus:

  • Administrative Bureau
  • Political Confinement Bureau
  • U-7
  • Office for Combating Anti-National Usury
  • Centre for Political Education of P.S.
  • Public Security Research Bureau
  • Judicial Research Bureau
  • Social Security Research Bureau
  • Political Security Bureau

The Central Security Office shares some bureaus with the National Committee for Order and Public Security:

  • Office for Railway Protection;
  • Office for Floating Population;
  • Office for Penitentiary policies;
  • Office for the prevention of juvenile delinquency;
  • Office for security in the school and surrounding areas.

U-7

Within the Central Security Office there is also a dedicated branch, whose specific purpose is to coordinate and direct the political persecution of the Jehovah's Witnesses, codenamed U-7 (from the initial letter of "Geova"). The U-7 is a security agency on its own, although it relies on O.V.R.A.. The U-7 frequently directs other state and party organs in the anti-Jehovah campaign. In order to do this, it is frequently headed by an high-ranking Party official.

Office for Combating Anti-National Usury

The Office for Combating Anti-National Usury (Ufficio per il Contrasto all'Usura antinazionale) is the department of the Central Security Office which monitors, prevents and combats the phenomenon of anti-national usury on an operational and security level. The anti-national usury is conceptualised as any domestic, international and transnational financial manoeuvre aimed to unjustly impoverish the Italian Nation or to blackmail it.
The Office is made up of representatives from various law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies, along with officials from the Foreign, Treasury and Corporations Ministries.
While the political leaders create the conditions for usury against Italy to be discouraged and made less desirable, the technical bodies of the Bank of Italy and the Ministry of the Treasury take steps to neutralize the aspects negative from a technical-financial point of view. Finally, the Office coordinates the relevant results of the collection of information and links it with security activities, both legal and extrajudicial, deemed to be useful to curtail threats.

Provincial Commissions

All the Party Federations establish Security Commissions subordinated to the Central Security Office, which are mandated to watch over local security forces, including the Questure and, to a lesser degree, over the local Prosecutions. Provincial commissions also organize the provincial study sessions. However, Security Commission heads do not double nor act as police chiefs and have no direct authority over the Prefect: they manage political aspects of affairs examined by the Provincial Commission for the Public Order and Security. In large municipalities, there may exist a Party's Municipal Security Commission, with responsibilities over the Municipal Police Corps.
Peripheral commissions' other main responsibilities are to implement the guidelines assigned by the Government on the work of public security, the building of cadre teams, the comprehensive control of the work of maintaining social stability. The Commissions also have to supervise and coordinate the administrative departments to implement guidelines and policies of the National Fascist Party, especially in law enforcement.

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