An intelligence service or also a secret service is one covers operating authority, which collects information to outside, interior and safetypolitical situation and evaluates these. Of it cover working organizations of private law, like Detekteien, are to differentiate. The intelligence services are into different countries, both which concerns its organization as well as which concerns its powers, quite differently out-arranged. So inland and foreignintelligence activities can be separately written, civilian and military acquisition of information or notice by an intelligence service. In addition numerous intelligence services have departments for the execution of so-called covered operations abroad.

It is of substantial importance whether the intelligence service on acquisition of information and - evaluation is limited or whether to it also police powers come. It is from comparable relevance to what extent intelligence-wise working authorities an information exchange with the police and/or the public prosecutor's office is permitted and whether an intelligence service police authorities and/or public prosecutor's offices can ask for legal assistance. On the one hand the transition is to secret police flowing. On the other hand also the public prosecutor's offices or the police authorities have the possibility over covered investigators and connecting people secret realizations to collect in different legal orders (for Germany see "§"§110a FF. StPO).

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