According to a Recorder investigation, the Home Office’s secret service Two and a Quarter is using its power brutally and creating abuses within the police force. USR President Katalin Drula responded to the press release and said that the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGPI) should be abolished.

“DPI (two and a quarter) should be abolished. Doubtful service from the beginning, on the keychain of the Ministers of Internal Affairs. Now it was Bode’s turn to play with him. Two months ago, he publicly threatened opposition parliamentarians with information on criminal cases,” says Drula.

“Last year, the UDR clearly spoke about the need to reform the special services and REAL civilian control over them. We will demand the abolition of this secret security service, the history of which after 1990 CNSAS should study itself,” said the President of the SDR.

Guinea: “DGPI, the horror committed in the security structure of Bucharest”

The former Minister of European Funds of the USSR, Christian Guinea, also wrote about the Recorder documentary about “Two and a quarter”.

“Everything is terrible there. As I said this summer in the UDR report on security laws (by the way, no one answered that they wrote that crap): there is de facto no parliamentary control. Undoubtedly, the most ridiculous character in the film is the head of the control commission, a parliamentarian of the NLP. The only real solution is to burst the bubble: a total ban on services related to activities in the press, politics and business,” says Guinea.

“Regarding the DPI, I don’t see any reform solution there, even if parliamentary control were to work. This horror, committed in the structure of the Security Service of Bucharest, when the Iliescu regime decided to make peace with the guards (see interview with Andrii Ursu), was reformed by the CDR, it was relaunched by Dragos Tudorace in 2016, and it still came badly. This is the minister’s special service,” says the former Minister of the USSR.

Recorder’s investigation into DGPI, “Shadow Power”

The recorder opened a breach in the hermetic world of the secret services and convinced others that it is not worth keeping silent.

“At the end of seven months of documenting — during which I heard countless times, ‘Do you have the courage to stand up to them?’ – We managed to decipher the way of work, with the help of which one of the six special services of Romania uses its power in a brutal way. It is about the DGPI, the special service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, known as “Two and a quarter”, says the Recorder.