The Service Security (also known as SerSec) is the military police and security force for the Barrayaran Imperial Service. They are separate from both Imperial Security and the law enforcement agencies under the direction of the Ministry of Interior. The SerSec has a direct function to cope and prosecute cases of espionage that threaten state security, protection plans and military installations, as well as any other project and experiment to keep secret. The SerSec is under the direct functional control of the High Command and the operational and hierarchical control of the General Staff. The Service Security includes the Service Security Investigation Division, the investigation arm, the Service Prison and Detention Barracks and the Service Security School. The Commandant General reports