Secretariat of Political Security—Revolutionary Command Council

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The Secretariat of Political Security—Revolutionary Command Council (SPC–RCC) is an organ of the Revolutionary Command Council of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. The SPC–RCC functions as a security agency within the ranks of the Ba'ath Party, ensuring membership loyalty and practical adherence to official Ba'athist—and thus government—policy and law. They have the same basic authority as the Joint Security Committee (Emni), but strictly within the structure of the Party and not the wider state. Nonetheless, several SPC–RCC officers are simultaneously Emni officers, most notably of its "B" and "Dh" Directorates. The SPC–RCC has its headquarters within the National Command Offices (the central Ba'ath Party compound) in Bab el-Mutasarref, Nasseria.