The state security and law enforcement in Italy have a particular status due to the need to relate with Autonomous Republics of the Italian Empire and have a deep interpenetration with P.N.F. organization, tough maintaining a clearly distinct organization. This interpenetration is ensured through both mandatory Party membership and overall Party dominance over security party and state bodies. The main and overall agency is the Ministry of the Interior. Below and functionally subordinated to the Ministry there are the two main security bodies: the Directorate General of Public Security, which controls the Republican Police Corps, and the Central Security Office of the Voluntary Militia for National Security, which relies mainly on O.V.R.A.. The Central Security Office (Ufficio Centrale di S