Government & administration
Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz
State office for the protection of the constitution
One domestic intelligence service per federal state, alongside the federal one — so there are seventeen, each with its own reporting and its own annual report. None of them may arrest anyone.
What it does
- Internal security intelligence
No counterpart recorded for France yet
We hold this body, but nothing has been verified as its equivalent in the other country. Ask for it and an editor will look.