Direcția Generală de Protecție Internă

Direcția Generală de Protecție Internă (General Directorate for Internal Security, DGPI) is the criminal intelligence agency of the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs.^[1] It was created following the disbanding of UM 0215.^[2]

General Directorate for Internal Security Direcția Generală de Protecție Internă
Common name	Doi și-un sfert ("Two and a quarter")
Abbreviation	DGPI
Agency overview
Formed	2003
Jurisdictional structure
National agency (Operations jurisdiction)	Romania
Operations jurisdiction	Romania
Legal jurisdiction	As per operations jurisdiction
Operational structure
Headquarters	Bucharest
Agency executive	Luca Banaseanu Nicolae, Director general
Parent agency	Ministry of Internal Affairs
Website
www.dgpi.ro

The objective of the Directorate-General for Information and Internal Protection is to know the risks, threats and vulnerabilities within the remit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ensure an effective approach and the integration of an operational situation, in order to enforce laws and uphold the rule of law and democracy.^[3]

Number of Employees

In November 2003, the DGPI had 2,400 employees.^[4]

In 2006 the number of DGPI employees was 2,000 and in 2009 it reached 3,200.^[5]

In 2016, before the dissolution, DGPI had 1800 employees.

Organization

The county sections of the DGPI are called the Information and Internal Protection Service (SIPI).^[6]

Leadership

• August 2016 - present — Mihai Mărculescu

See also

• Foreign Intelligence Service (Romania) (SIE)
• Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale (STS)