Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saarland

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saarland is an intelligence service and the state authority for the protection of the constitution in Saarland, based in Saarbrücken. The 2018 budget allocated material resources for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution amounting to around 525,300 euros and the staffing plan totalled 60 positions.^[2] Until 2018, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, founded in 1957, was an independent state authority before it was incorporated as Department V into the Saarland Ministry of the Interior, Building and Sport.