:: How To Become a Member of the Services

The Intelligence Services personnel is composed of civil servants and military personnel transferred, with their consent, to be employed exclusively by these bodies, as well as of directly recruited personnel. At present, direct recruitment is suspended, awaiting a change in regulations, in order to ensure greater transparency and consistency of procedures and the highest professional standards. However, in no circumstance can the Services employ members of parliament, members of city, provincial and regional council, magistrates, clergymen, or professional newsmen. Nor can they employ individuals who do not guarantee complete loyalty to the State Institutions or abide by the laws of the State.
The personnel of the Intelligence and Security Services has a particular legal and economic status, disciplined by the regulations implementing article 7 of Law n.801/77, notwithstanding the provisions in force for other civil servants. In any case, the legal and economic status of the personnel of the Intelligence bodies cannot be lower than the current standard for other Government employees at the corresponding level.