State Protection Service

Among the agencies directly subordinate to the President is the Special State Protection Service.

The Special State Protection Service provides security to:

Security of the President of Georgia is provided by the Special State Protection Service.

The SPG is a unit within the Special State Protection Service.

It operates as a semi-independent entity of the Special State Protection Service, an agency subordinate to the President.

The Guard was definitely active in December 1996 but now appears to have been incorporated into the Special State Protection Service.

On February 20, 1996 the agency adopted the current name in line with the "Law of Georgia on Special State Protection Service".

The Special State Protection Service (SSPS) of Azerbaijan is a military unit directly under the authority of the President of Azerbaijan.

The photo sharing website Imgur was blocked in 2013 after hackers from Anonymous posted documents from the Special State Protection Service of Azerbaijan; as of May 2014 the site remains inaccessible.

Administrative and legal foundations of organization and activity of the State Protection Service attached to the Ministry of Internal Affairs: synopsis of a thesis of the candidate of juridical sciences: spec.

From May to July the president dismissed the chief and deputy chief of the national police, the chief of the State Protection Service, and the chief of the Police Troops (paramilitary riot police).