Fight against crime
It is carried out through general prevention and territory control activities
Efforts are aimed at combating both ordinary and organised crime organisations. Specific actions include: managing the special programme for most wanted fugitives investigations leading to their capture, for co-operative witnesses and for judicial police investigations, at both a national and international level.
Measures taken for combating most serious crimes, e.g. transnational crime (illegal drugs trafficking, high-tech and environmental crimes, etc.) also include data and information gathering, analysis and processing.
Technical and scientific support is provided by highly skilled staff to the investigative bodies and the judicial authority.
This task is assigned to the Criminal Police Central Directorate headed by the Deputy Chief of Police acting as liaison to ensure coordination with the Anti-Mafia Investigations Directorate (Dia) and other offices, units and structures of polices forces, including central and inter-provincial services of the State police, Arma dei Carabinieri, Financial and customs police.
State police investigative coordination services, entrusted to the Central Anticrime Directorate, have been recently moved to the new seat located in Rome along Via Tuscolana, which houses, amongst others, the Forensic Science Police Service including 42 laboratories. An office of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, staffed with two investigators, operates there for the exchange of experts in the fight against organised transnational crime. A French police liaison office is also available. 
Counterterrorism is a complex activity carried out to safeguard public order and security. This service is intended to prevent and tackle any possible terrorist threat, both nationally and internationally, as well as subversive associations wishing to overthrow or undermine democratic institutions.
The highly sensitive nature of this activity lies in the fact that it affects fundamental freedoms of both individuals and society as a whole.
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