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CoE: DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT of SECURITY SERVICES

05 June 2015

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"This issue paper addresses the question of what is required to make national oversight systems more effective in helping to promote human rights compliance and accountability in the work of security services.

This issue paper focuses on the oversight of state bodies, including both autonomous agencies and departments/units of other government departments or the armed forces, that have a mandate to collect, analyse and disseminate intelligence within the borders of their state in order to inform decisions by policy makers, military commanders, police investigators and border/customs agencies about threats to national security and other core national interests."

See the full report: Democratic and effective oversight of national security services (78 pages, pdf) and: Reinforcing democratic oversight of security services cannot be further delayed (Press release, pdf)

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