Functions:

• Advising the main heads in the compliance with the legal and regulatory basis by organizing the management and control of the safety and protection system in the Ministry of Culture.
• To comply with and develop an information system to provide timely, accurate and truthful information to the management of the Ministry of Culture and the Protection Directorate of MININT.
• Approve or direct the good of the process of selection, preparation and professional improvement of Heads of Protection, Technicians and Specialists and the rest of the personnel who occupy levels of the specialty as well as workers and students who fulfill all the tasks of the Security and Protection System.
• Overall development in the office the analysis and planning of the budget for investments in the security and protection system.
• Representing by delegation the highest authority of MINCULT before the operational lines of MININT and complying with the ministerial indications to participate in the measures that can guarantee events of national and international, political, scientific, sports or cultural character.
• Advise the main leaders of the agency on security and protection matters and propose measures, organizational forms and tasks to solve deficiencies and irregularities detected in government controls, in MININT visits and inspections and in the control and assistance activities themselves.
• Organize the control system in companies and agencies contracted to provide security and protection services in their area of competence and identify deficiencies and irregularities and report them to the Ministry of Culture.
• Adapt to the characteristics of the Ministry of Culture the annual work guidelines and objectives established by the Directorate of Protection of MININT, ensuring compliance.
• Organize the systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of the security and protection system by means of computer audits and checklists of the specialty, determining the threats and risks to which the objectives may be subject, evaluating and proposing the necessary measures to establish the integrity of the system.
• Advise, direct and control the operation of the fire protection system and the training of personnel working in places or areas exposed to risk, keeping the Directorate of the Ministry informed of the existing situation and the measures deriving from the stable inspections and controls carried out by the inspections of that office.
• It carries out the methodological direction of the Security and Protection activity at all levels and entities of culture, including its Security and Protection Company.
• By delegation, it directs the Security and Protection System with all its Specialties to be known:
  • Physical Protection.
  • Protection of Official Information.
  • Computer Security.
  • Control of industrial explosives, their chemical precursors, ammunition, chemical, explosive or toxic substances.

As established in Article 39 of Decree Law 186/98.

• Organize the systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of the security and protection system by means of computer audits and checklists of the specialty, determining the threats and risks to which the objectives may be subject, evaluating and proposing the necessary measures to establish the integrity of the system.
• Advise, direct and control the operation of the fire protection system and the training of personnel working in places or areas exposed to risk, keeping the Directorate of the Ministry informed of the existing situation and the measures deriving from the stable inspections and controls carried out by the inspections of that section.