Institutional Security Office of Brazil

Mission and competencies

• Assist directly and immediately the President in the performance of their duties;
• Prevent the occurrence and articulate the crisis management in the event of serious and imminent threat to institutional stability;
• Perform personal advice on military and security issues;
• Coordinate federal intelligence activities and information security;
• Perform personal security of the President, the Vice-President of the Republic and their families and, where determined by the President of the Republic, the holders of the essential organs of the Presidency and other authorities and personalities, assured the exercise of power police;
• Exercise the Central Organ of activities of the Brazilian Nuclear Program Protection System.

  Historic

• 1930 - 1934: General Staff of the Provisional Government
• 1934 - 1938: General Staff of the Government
• 1938 - 1992: Military Office
• 1992 - 1999: Military House
• 1999 - 2015: Institutional Security Office
• 2016 : Institutional Security Office