State Security Service (Azerbaijan)
domestic intelligence agency and secret police
The State Security Service (Azerbaijani: Dövlət Təhlükəsizlik Xidməti; DTX) is the principle domestic intelligence agency and secret police of Azerbaijan, created out of the 2015 dissolution of the Ministry of National Security. The DTX was established by Presidential Decree 706 of 14 December 2015, issued by Ilham Aliyev. Headquartered in Baku, the agency has been led by Colonel General Ali Naghiyev since June 2019.
Its foreign intelligence counterpart is the Foreign Intelligence Service.
Legal basis
The legal basis of the activities of the State Security Service contains the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the laws and legislative acts of the Republic of Azerbaijan: “Intelligence and counterintelligence activities”, “On national security”, “On the fight against terrorism”, “On operational-investigative activities”, “On state secret” and others, the statute of State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan, decrees and orders of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, resolutions and Orders of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, central executive bodies` normative legal acts adopted following legislation, international agreements signed by the Republic of Azerbaijan following the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
State Security Service operates following commitments of observing the human and civil rights and freedom, humanism, the principle of responsibility for the state and society.
Lineage
Organization to Fight against Counter-Revolution (1918-1920)
Extraordinary Commissions of the Cheka (1920-1921)
State Political Department (1922-1934)
Main State Security Department (SSSD) of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (1934-1945)
Ministry of State Security (1945-1959)
Committee for State Security of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic (1959-1991)
Ministry of National Security (1991-2015)
State Security Service (2015–present)
Structure
Academy of the State Security Service named after Heydar Aliyev (Azerbaijani: Dövlət Təhlükəsizliyi Xidmətinin Heydər Əliyev adına Akademiyası)
Medical Center
International Anti-Terror Training Center
Cultural Center
Academy
The Academy of the State Security Service was established in the basis of decree of president of Azerbaijan dated 1 December 1998. The main goal of the academy is to train highly qualified personnel for national security agencies.
The academy has 3 faculties:
Faculty of Border Troops
Faculty of Training of Operational Workers
Faculty of Retraining and Advanced Training
Medical Center
The Main Military Medical Department of the State Security Service was inaugurated on 12 November 2013, providing sanatorium-resort treatment and recreation for the SSS military personnel and retirees and their families. It is located at 1 Maktabli Street in the municipality of Badamdar in the Sabail District.
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