The officers of the State Guard and Protection Service will have the right to service housing. The Service will be able to initiate the construction of service housing based on a public-private partnership on an area of 1.5 ha. The provision is contained in a proposal that was passed by Parliament in the first reading, IPN reports.

State Guard and Protection Service acting director Anatolie Golea said in Parliament that the Service’s officers will be entitled to such housing while in service alongside the employees of other law enforcement agencies, such as the Security and Intelligence Service, the Ministry of the Interior and the National Anticorruption Center.

The State Guard and Protection Service has been a component part of the state security system since its foundation until 2016, when it was transferred under the Government’s management. The given bill puts back the Service on the list of state security bodies.

Anatolie Golea said that after the transfer, the Service kept its status of distinct state security body. The draft law didn’t specify this and the Service was thus excluded from the state security system after the bill was passed in the final reading. A series of difficulties in implementing the laws and regulations on state security as regards personnel procedures appeared after the Service was excluded from the system, but kept all the powers typical of state security bodies.