Central Security Office (Kingdom of Italy)

Central Security Office

Ufficio Centrale di Sicurezza
Abbreviation	U.C.S.
Formation	1990
Type	Commission directly reporting to the Duce
Legal status	Active
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.

See also

• Law enforcement in the Kingdom of Italy
• National Fascist Party (Kingdom of Italy)
• M.V.S.N. (Kingdom of Italy)
• National Defence Commission (Kingdom of Italy)