Administrative Department of Security

The Administrative Department of Security is the organism in charge of carrying out the inteligence operations of the state, as well serving as counterinteligence agency. The ADS is one of the most controversial agencies of the government, mostly because it strict secrecy policy. Nobody knows who is the director of the ADS or how many members does it have, but is a direct dependency of the President of the Republic. It was created with the Decree Number 1 of 2012.

Objectives
1.Gather and Produce the state inteligence, in order to guarantee the internal and external security of the Antioquian State.

2.Participate in the development of the security policies of the government.

3.Process the information, both external as internal.

4.Coordinate the exchange of information with other institutions of the government.

5.Develop the operations of counterinteligence and protect the interests of the Antioquian State.

6.Excercise the migratory control of nationals and foreigners.

7.Gather evidence for the Supreme Court of Justice.

8.Protect the president, his family and his ministers of all threaths.

9.Defending the population against terrorist actions.

10.Educate the aspirants for the ADS in order to guarantee the correct training of the agents.

Weapons Research Lab
One of the most controversial aspects of the ADS, is the suspected existance of the Weapons Research Lab and the possibility that state funds are going to the weapon research without knowledge of the public. The president has already negated this and assured the public that this lab doesnt exist, that every research, included the weapons research, occurs in the National Research Lab in Medellin.