О ведомственной охране

Departmental security in the Russian Federation - specialized state and non-state sectoral and departmental armed units designed to protect buildings, structures, structures, adjacent territories and waters, vehicles, as well as cargo, including during their transportation (transportation), cash funds and other property from illegal encroachments and fires. They have the right to use military and service firearms, as well as special means (service dogs, handcuffs, rubber sticks, means of stopping vehicles). Officials of the state departmental security (created by federal state bodies) have the right to draw up protocols on administrative offenses, carry out a personal search, search of things held by an individual, inspection of a vehicle and other procedural actions established by the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. The main position of employees of the departmental security of federal state bodies is "shooter", in the non-state sphere - a security guard.

In the period from 1918 to 1999, in the USSR and Russia, a number of state ministries, organizations, institutions, industrial and transport enterprises, and military units had the right to independently protect property, for which civilian workers were included in the staff who protected important objects and goods. including with firearms - hence the name "departmental paramilitary security". Since 1999, in connection with the liquidation of the paramilitary security system and the publication of the Federal Law of April 14, 1999 No. 77-FZ "On departmental security", the name "departmental security" has been used in the Russian Federation. Unlike the paramilitary guard, the departmental guard is not a paramilitary formation.