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Political Security Branch of Aleppo

Political Security Branch of Aleppo is an entity of interest. It has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Organization				[sources]
Name	Political Security Branch of Aleppo · فرع الأمن السياسي في حلب				[sources]
Other name	الأمن السياسي في حلب				[sources]
Legal form	not available				[sources]
Country	not available				[sources]
Keywords	Intelligence devices · Regular security forces · أجهزة الاستخبارات · القوات الأمنية النظامية				[sources]
Summary	Political Security Directorate branch. Tasked with surveilling citizens within the governorate. Its detachments and departments recruit informants from citizens everywhere in the governorate, receive their reports, organise, archive, and send them to the competent branch. · أحد فروع شعبة الأمن السياسي. يتولى مهمة مراقبة المواطنين في المحافظة. تقوم مفارزه وأقسامه بتجنيد المخبرين ضمن صفوف المواطنين كلٌ في المكان الذي يقطن فيه، وتستلم التقارير منهم ثم تقوم بأرشفتها وتنظيمها وإرسالها إلى الفرع الخاص بالمحافظة				[sources]
Status	not available				[sources]
Last change	2023-04-20	Last processed	2023-02-01	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

The Political Security branch of Aleppo is tasked with surveilling citizens within the governorate. The detachments and departments of this branch recruit informants from citizens everywhere in the governorate. They receive their reports, organise, archive, and send them to the competent branch. Brigadier General Anas Zuraiq has headed Aleppo branch since December 2020.

— Syrian Observatory of Political and Economic Networks non-official source, 2023-04-20

أحد فروع شعبة الأمن السياسي. يتولى مهمة مراقبة المواطنين في المحافظة. تقوم مفارزه وأقسامه بتجنيد المخبرين ضمن صفوف المواطنين كلٌ في المكان الذي يقطن فيه، وتستلم التقارير منهم ثم تقوم بأرشفتها وتنظيمها وإرسالها إلى الفرع الخاص بالمحافظة. يرأسه "العميد أنس زريق" منذ كانون الأول 2020.

— Syrian Observatory of Political and Economic Networks non-official source, 2023-04-20

Relationships

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Subject	Role	Start date	End date
Political Security Directorate	Executive Body · جهاز تنفيذي · جهاز مركزي	-	-

Data sources

Syrian Observatory of Political and Economic Networks1,079

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