Ministry of State Security (Turkmenistan), ministry of Turkmenistan under President Niyazov

KGB, secrete agency of the Soviet Union

Department of Homeland Security, department of the United States

Stasi, East Germany's secret police, officially the Ministry for State Security.

See also: Department of Public Safety

Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China, the government agency of the People's Republic of China

Directorate of State Security, agency of the Communist Albania under Enver Hoxha

Committee for State Security, department of Socialist Bulgaria

Bureau of State Security (BOSS), agency of apartheid South Africa.

Ministry for State Security (USSR), former name of the Soviet Union's secret police.