Secretary of State for Security (Spain)

Secretary of State for Security
Secretario de Estado de Seguridad
Coat of Arms used by the Government
Incumbent
Ana Botella Gómez
since June 19, 2018
Ministry of the Interior
Secretariat of State for Security
Style The Most Excellent (formal)
Madam Secretary of State for Security (informal)
Abbreviation SESEG
Reports to The Minister of the Interior
Nominator The Minister of the Interior
Appointer The King
Precursor Director-General for Security
Formation October 24, 1986
First holder Rafael Vera Fernández-Huidobro
Salary € 110,420.08 per year[1]
Website Ministry of the Interior

The Secretary of State for Security (SESEG) of Spain is a second-highest-ranking official in the Ministry of the Interior.

The SESEG is appointed by the King of Spain with the advise of the Minister of the Interior. The Secretariat of State for Security that SESEG leads is responsible for ensuring the free exercise of the constitutional rights, to direct and supervise the police forces, coordinate the international police cooperation, to execute the government's policy about organized crime, terrorism, human trafficking, money laundering and related crimes. It's also responsible for ensuring the safety of all government buildings, to execute and oversees the prison policy, to ensure the good development of all electoral processes and collaborate along with the Customs Surveillance Service in the border control.[2]

From the Secretary of State for Security depends on four main departments: the Directorate-General of the Police, the Directorate-General of the Civil Guard, the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions and the Directorate-General of International Relations and Immigration. In addition, the Secretary of State of Security tops the Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO).

History

The origins of this body dated from the 18th century, when a Superintendent of Police was created to oversees the public order in the Kingdom. However, the truly precursor was the Directorate-General for Security and Public Order, which existed between march and October 1858. After this, the competences were directly assumed by the Ministry of the Interior but in 1912 was created the Directorate-General for Security that was in active service until 1986, when the current Secretariat of State for Security was born.

The Directorate-General for Security was the main body responsible for the repression after the civil war and with the need of renovate the police and improve the image of the police corps, all the security departments were renamed and reorganizated.[3]

Structure

From the Secretary of State of Security depends:[2]

  • Director-General of the Police.
    It's the official which leads the civil department responsible for the direction and supervision of the National Police Corps actions, maintain international relationships with other police departments within the scope of its competences, issue of passports, IDs, immigration documents, private security licenses and other documents of its competence and provides the police with all the necessary materials (ammo, weapons, cars, helicopters...)
  • Director-General of the Civil Guard.
    It's the official which leads the civil department responsible for the direction and supervision of the Civil Guard actions in coordination with the Ministry of Defence, establish the territorial organization of the Civil Guard, supervise the Civil Guard's competences over weapons and explosives, provide the police with all the necessary materials (ammo, weapons, cars, helicopters...) and to establish a fluent coordination between the Directorate-General and the Secretary of State for Migrations in the competences of the Civil Guard over foreigners.
  • Secretary General for Penitentiary Institutions.
    It's an official in charge of the department responsible for the organization and administration of prisons as well as de designment of programs to reinsert the prisoners into society, deals with the complaints and requests over prisons and over the prisons officials and is also in charge of maintain prisons in good condition and with maximum hygiene.
  • Director-General for International Relations and Immigration.
    The Director-General for International Relations and Immigration tops the Directorate-General for International Relations and Immigration which is responsible for the coordination of the international relations of the Ministry (highlighting mainly the European Union), the supervision of the police forces in embassies and other diplomatic missions abroad in coordination with the different directorates general of the polcie forces, the participation in the negotiations of international agreements over security and the supervision and improvement proposal over the migration issue.
  • Deputy Director-General for Planning and Management of Infrastructures and Means for Security.
    It's responsible for planning the investments in security infraestructures, for proposing and overseen the works in the scope of security, manage and execute the programs of its competence coming from European founds, manage the Ministry's goods and carry out all the competences that the Secretary of State delegates on it.
  • Deputy Director-General for Information and Communications Systems for Security.
    It's responsible for planning the investments in information and communications systems, standardize and homogenize these systems, the proposal of acquisition of new systems and modernition of the existed, manage and execute the programs of its competence coming from European founds, coordinate and develope data bases, communication systems and information systems (highlighting that related with the Eu-Lisa, Schengen system and with the Digital Emergency Radio State System), coordinate the investments in security R&D and the direction of the Security Technological Center.

List of Secretaries of State for Security

  • Rafael Vera Fernández-Huidobro (1986-1994)
  • Margarita Robles (1994-1996)
  • Ricardo Martí Fluxá (1996-2000)
  • Pedro Morenés (2000-2002)
  • Ignacio Astarloa (2002-2004)
  • Antonio Camacho Vizcaíno (2004-2011)
  • Justo Tomás Zambrana Pineda (2011)
  • Ignacio Ulloa Rubio (2011-2013)
  • Francisco Martínez Vázquez (2013-2016)
  • José Antonio Nieto Ballesteros (2016-2018)
  • Ana Botella Gómez (2018–present)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Retribuciones para el año 2017 para el organismo Ministerio del Interior". transparencia.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  2. 1 2 "Royal Decree 952/2018, of July 27, by which the basic organic structure of the Ministry of the Interior is developed". www.boe.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  3. ↑ Turrado Vidal, Martín (2006). Studies on the history of the police (III). Police and people of bad living, colorful stories. Madrid: Catarata. ISBN 84-9821-370-3.
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