Administrative Department of Security

Administrative Department of Security
Badge of the Administrative Department of Security
Motto	Lealtad, Valor, Honradez Loyalty, Valor, Honesty
Agency overview
Formed	18 July, 1960
Preceding agencies	Departamento Administrativo del Servicio de Inteligencia Colombiano Migración Colombia
Dissolved	31 October 2011
Superseding agency	National Intelligence Directorate (Colombia) (DNI)
Employees	6,800
Annual budget	COP$263,853,350,000 (est. 2010)
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
National agency	Colombia
Constituting instrument	Decree 1717 of 1960
General nature	Law enforcement Civilian police
Operational structure
Overviewed by	Inspector General of Colombia Controller General of Colombia
Headquarters	Cra 28 № 17 A-00 (Paloquemao) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 4°36′54″N 74°5′14″W / 4.61500°N 74.08722°W / 4.61500; -74.08722
Agency executives	Felipe Muñoz Gómez (), Director Jaime Andrés Polanco Barreto, Deputy Director
Child agencies	Academia Superior de Inteligencia y Seguridad Pública Fondo Rotatorio del Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad
Notables Programme DAS Most Wanted Terrorists
Website
www.das.gov.co

The Administrative Department of Security (Spanish: Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, DAS) was the Security Service agency of Colombia, which was also responsible for border and immigration services. It was dissolved on 31 October 2011 as part of a wider Executive Reform, and was replaced by the Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DNI).

DAS was tasked with providing security to state institutions and VIPs, providing judiciary police investigative services and serving as a counter-intelligence service to both external and internal threats. At DAS, citizens and foreigners living in Colombia could obtain their background records, a common requirement for a variety of transactions and services involving both state and private institutions. In addition, DAS was responsible for immigration control and the issuance of visas.

Public law 218 of 2000, at section 38, states that all employees of DAS were intelligence agents. DAS worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA), an agency of the US government tasked with combating the trade of illegal narcotics.

The events that followed Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination in 1948 provoked a violent riot in Bogotá, now known as the Bogotazo, which also started a further ten years of violence in all of Colombia known in Colombian history as La Violencia. These events also brought in a headed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Within the policies implemented by this Government was the creation, by means of Presidential Decree 2872 of 1953, of an administrative department known as the Colombian Administrative Department of Intelligence Services, (SIC). This department was in charge of Internal and External Intelligence and was created with the purpose of having an agency within the framework of the State to handle matters of intelligence, security and Constitutional enforcement.

President Alberto Lleras Camargo changed the course of the SIC when he issued the Decree 1717 of 18 July 1960, substituting the SIC with the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS), or Administrative Department of Security.