Interior Commission (Ventora)

The Interior Commission (: Comisión de Interno, CI) is the Ventoran government cabinet-level department responsible for matters of public safety, citizenship, intelligence, and environmental affairs. Tercero Felipe Íñiquez Reverol is the current Interior Commissioner and head of the commission. The commission's head offices are in The Barbicon (La Barbacan), a large complex built in the fundadismo style. It is located in the government quarter of Plenas, the.

History
Each of the duchies has its own judicial and penal systems. Before 1779, there was no uniformity in the legal penalties between the duchies and many of the prisons operated in an arbitrary, and sometimes capricious, manner. Further complicating the judicial landscape, the Kingdom of Ventora did not have its own prison system, instead chartering private prisons or paying various dukes to house its convicts. King Pedro II commissioned Porfirio Robles, Baron of Odalis, to reform prisons in 1779. The task was challenging and took years to achieve any results due to the lack of structure and shear complication of trying to set standards for over 200 separate penal organizations.

In 1844, King Andrés I established the Nationalities Commission to conduct a census, register the population, and issue a national identification card. He also charged the Commission with determining suitability for persons wanting to immigrate to Ventora. Criteria included intelligence, skills, and "sociability" in that "criminals, hooligans, and fugitives shall be excluded." Interpreting his commission broadly, Nationalities Commissioner Vito Noé y Caltanzaro established the Criminal Investigations Directorate in 1846.

As part of his effort to rationalize the organs of the national government, King Florián I combined the Prisons and Nationalities Commissions and various other agencies into the Interior Commission on May 19, 1913. With the creation of the Directorate General for Intelligence in 1943 and the addition of environmental responsibilities in 1954, the commission more or less realized its present structure.

Structure
The Commission is organized as follows:
 * Secretariat&mdash;offices of the Commissioner and senior commission officials
 * Public Safety Board (Consejo de Seguridad Pública, CSP)
 * Environmental Policy Council (Consejo de Política Ambiental, CPA)
 * Defense Councillor
 * Foreign Councillor
 * Directorate General for Public Safety (Dirección General de Seguridad Pública, DGSP)
 * Directorate for Civil Safety
 * Directorate for Fire Defense
 * Directorate for Technical Assistance
 * Directorate General for Public Order (Dirección General de Orden Público, DGOP)
 * Directorate for Prisons (Dirección de Prisiones, DdP)
 * Bureau for Prison Standards
 * Bureau for State Prisons
 * Directorate for Criminal Investigations (Dirección de Investigaciones Criminales, DIC)
 * Bureau for Investigative Operations
 * Bureau for Forensic Services
 * Directorate for Prosecutions (Dirección de Procesamientos, DdP)
 * Directorate General for Nationalities (Dirección General de Nacionalidades, DGN)
 * Directorate for Registration
 * Directorate for Immigration
 * Bureau for Guest Workers
 * Bureau for Residency
 * Bureau for Visas
 * Directorate General for Intelligence (Dirección General de Inteligencia, DGI)
 * Directorate for Operations
 * Directorate for Support
 * Directorate General for Environment (Dirección General de Medio Ambiente, DGMA)
 * Directorate for Conservation
 * Directorate for Environmental Affairs
 * Directorate for State Lands
 * Directorate General for Support (Dirección General de Apoyo, DGA)
 * Directorate for Administration
 * Directorate for Legal Services
 * Directorate for Logistics
 * Directorate for Records
 * Directorate for Technology
 * Directorate for Training

Agencies

 * Environmental Wardens Corps (Cuerpos Vigilantes de Ambiental, CVA) &mdash;environmental law enforcement service
 * Geology Ventora (Geológia Ventora, GV) &mdash;geological and geographic data service
 * Meteorology Ventora (Meteorología Ventora, MG) &mdash;weather data and forecasting service
 * Records Ventora (Records Ventora, RV) &mdash;recordings of births, residency status, naturalizations, deaths, marriages, divorces, and similar life events; issues national identification cards
 * State Lands Administration (Administración de Tierras del Estado, ATE) &mdash;administration of lands owned by the state for conservation, resources, and recreational purposes

Independent agencies

 * Prison Inquiry Board (Junta de Investigación de Prisiones, JIP) &mdash;independent investigation into prison conditions, incidents, and complaints
 * Nationalities Inquiry Board (Junta de Investigación de Nacionalidades, JIN) &mdash;independent investigation into citizenship and immigration matters

Civil Protection Corps
The Civil Protection Corps (Cuerpo de Protección Civil, CPC) is a government-chartered private non-profit organization charged with duties. The organization receives funding from the state and donations from individuals, businesses, and charities. CPC also requests reimbursement for its services from those it assists based on ability to pay. Several full-time personnel are government employees but volunteers make up the majority of CPC's manpower. Since 1986, a small number of full-time staffers consist of persons permitted to fulfill their military service requirement with 4 years of service with CPC as an alternative.

CPC has two main branches: the Maritime Safety Service and the Search and Rescue Service. The former provides search and rescue services at sea while the latter provides similar services on land. The Search and Rescue Service has specialists trained for mountain rescue in southeastern Ventora.

Gendarmerie
Technically part of the Defense Commission, the Gendarmerie falls under the jurisdiction of the Interior Commission during peacetime. The Gendarmerie sees to border protection, diplomatic protection, port security, safeguarding government installations, and anti-terrorism. Its Military Police Group provides law enforcement services to the Ventoran Armed Forces.