Service Regulations of the Security Directorate (Do SID) - Scope of Application (SID)

1. This Service Regulation governs the organization and duties of the Directorate of Security and its departments.

2. The head of the Directorate of Security regulates the implementation thereof in a regulation.

1. The organization of offices is governed by Section 10 of the Government and Administrative Organization Ordinance of Basel-Landschaft.

1. The Director manages the Directorate with the assistance of performance mandates and other management instruments.

2. The representation of the Director in administrative matters is carried out by the Secretary General.

3. Leadership meetings are held to coordinate the tasks of the Directorate.

1. The head of the department is responsible for the cost and performance accounting in accordance with § 31 of the Financial Budget Act.

2. The authority for expenditure approvals is determined by the Regulation on Authority for Expenditure Approvals in the Directorate of Security.

1. The head of the department or their deputy is responsible for signing the orders to be issued within the department's area of responsibility.

2. They may delegate the authority to issue orders in certain areas of responsibility to individual organizational units of the department with the approval of the director.

3. The department that issued the order shall, upon request, issue the certificate of finality in accordance with the administrative procedure legislation.

1. The Director prescribes the competencies for the conclusion of contracts in a regulation.

1. The head of the office designates their deputy with the consent of the head of the directorate.

1. The appointing authorities are regulated in the Personnel Ordinance.

2. For the Chief Public Prosecutor, the Senior Public Prosecutors, the other Public Prosecutors, the Chief Juvenile Prosecutor, as well as the other Juvenile Prosecutors, the Department of Security assumes the administrative functions that personnel law assigns to the appointing authorities.

3. The Head of the Department regulates the signing authority for employment contracts, personnel-related orders and agreements, as well as employment references in the regulations pertaining to the service ordinance of the Department of Security.

4. Agreements between the Head of the Department and service units regarding the delegation of personnel-law-related competencies remain reserved.

1. The head of the Directorate of Security is responsible for the written order of on-call duty for the heads of departments.

2. The head of the Directorate of Security is responsible for the written order of on-call duty for all other employment relationships.

3. The responsible person can delegate the authority to issue such orders.

1. The Chief Public Prosecutor or Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor and the Chief Juvenile Prosecutor or Deputy Chief Juvenile Prosecutor may order on-call duty or delegate this authority.

1. The Director is authorized to grant exemption from official secrecy for the heads of departments.

2. The Head of Department is authorized to grant exemption from official secrecy for the employees.

1. The General Secretariat is structured as follows

a. Staff Functions;

b. Communication;

c. Legislation;

d. Finance and Business Administration;

e. HR Consulting;

f. Digitalization;

g. Information Technology with Competence Team Business Administration (KT GEVER);

h. Secretariat;

i. Lost and Found Office and Disposal Service;

j. Passport Office;

k. Authorizations;

l. Families;

m. Child and Youth Protection;

n. Civil Law Supervision (including instruction of administrative supervision in the Commercial Register and Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Affairs);

o. Swisslos Fund.

1. The General Secretariat has the following specific duties

a. Comprehensive leadership support for the Head of Directorate;

b. Consultation and support for the departments;

c. Planning, coordination, and quality assurance within the Directorate;

d. Digital transformation and organizational development in the Directorate;

e. Canton-wide implementation and operation of the business management system (GEVER Fabasoft);

f. Processing all matters of the Directorate that are not assigned to any department.

1. The Head of the Legal Service for the Government Council and the Cantonal Council is appointed by the Government Council.

2. The secretarial work for the Legal Service of the Government Council and the Cantonal Council is handled by the Secretariat of the General Secretariat of the Department of Security.

1. The Legal Service of the Government Council and the Cantonal Council has, in particular, the following tasks

a. Instruction of appeals in the context of preparing appeal decisions by the Government Council, insofar as this task is not carried out by the competent directorate;

b. Participation in the drafting of legal enactments;

c. Providing legal advice and preparing legal opinions and reports for the attention of the Cantonal Council, the Government Council, and the directorates;

d. Drafting legal documents for the courts of the canton and the federal courts as well as representing the Government Council and the Cantonal Council in court.

2. The Cantonal Council, the Government Council, and the head of a directorate may assign additional legal tasks to the Legal Service of the Government Council and the Cantonal Council.

1. The Police of Basel-Landschaft is structured as follows

a. Management (Chief of Police or Commissioner);

b. Security Police;

c. Criminal Police;

d. Traffic Police;

e. Planning and Operations;

f. Command Areas.

1. The Duties and Powers of the Police Basel-Country are Governed by the Police and Criminal Procedure Legislation as well as by Other Federal and Cantonal Laws that Assign Duties and Powers to the Police.

1. The Office of the Youth Advocate consists of

a. the Chief Youth Advocate;

b. the Youth Advocates;

c. the Investigating Officers;

d. the Social Workers;

e. the Secretariat.

1. The Juvenile Public Prosecutor's Office has the duties and powers conferred upon it by the legislation in the field of juvenile criminal justice.

1. The Public Prosecutor's Office is structured as follows

a. Led by the Chief Public Prosecutor;

b. General Crimes Division;

c. Special Crimes Division;

d. Economic Crimes Division;

e. Summary Penalty Orders Division;

f. Central Services.

1. The duties of the Public Prosecutor's Office are governed by the criminal legislation, the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code, and the Introductory Act to the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code.

2. The Public Prosecutor's Office operates the Cantonal Coordination Office for Criminal Records (KOST) in accordance with Art. 4 para. 1 of the Criminal Records Act.

1. The Office of Corrections is structured as follows

a. Sentence and Measure Enforcement

1. Sentence and Measure Enforcement Division;

2. Division for Short Sentences and Special Forms of Enforcement;

b. Probation Service;

c. Prisons;

d. Victim Support;

e. Intervention Agency Against Domestic Violence

1. Division for Domestic and Sexualized Violence;

2. Division for Educational Programs;

3. Division for Safety Management;

f. Enforcement Authority for Civil and Administrative Law;

g. Measures Center for Young Adults Arxhof

1. Vocational Training and Enterprises;

2. Psychological Forensic Service;

3. Social Education;

h. Executive Staff Service.

1. The Office for Correctional Services has, in particular, the following tasks

a. Issuance of orders regarding the enforcement of penal and corrective measures;

b. Issuance of orders regarding the prison system;

c. Issuance of orders regarding probation services;

d. Issuance of orders regarding the enforcement of civil and administrative law decisions;

e. Issuance of orders regarding compensation and satisfaction payments pursuant to the Victims Assistance Act.

2. The tasks and powers of the Office for Correctional Services are determined by the applicable specialized legislation.

1. The Office for Military and Civil Protection is structured as follows

a. Training;

b. Operations;

c. Staff.

2. The head of the Office for Military and Civil Protection leads the Cantonal Command Staff.

3. The district commander or district commandress is responsible as the contact person for military affairs in the canton; this person holds an officer rank in the army.

1. The Office for Military and Civil Protection has the following main tasks

a. Registration and orientation of individuals liable for military service;

b. Administrative support for recruitment;

c. Oversight of those obligated to military and civil service;

d. Military service compensation;

e. Management of the cantonal training infrastructures for the army and civil protection;

f. In the area of military shooting outside of service

1. Control of shooting obligations;

2. Recognition of shooting clubs;

3. Operating permits for shooting ranges;

4. Appointment of shooting commissions;

5. Allocation of contributions to regional shooting ranges;

g. Management of the planning, implementation, coordination, and control of civil protection matters;

h. Ensuring operational readiness and leadership of the Cantonal Command Staff;

i. Ensuring the operational readiness of the incident commanders and incident command teams;

j. Ensuring the operational readiness of the cantonal resources of the Civil Protection Unit (CPU);

k. Training, exercise, and examination of command staffs, formations, and specialists in the assigned areas;

l. Enforcement of federal and cantonal laws concerning civil protection and in assigned areas;

m. Coordination of measures in the assigned areas with the Federation, neighboring cantons, municipalities, the army, neighboring countries, and private parties;

n. Ensuring the cantonal delegate of the Economic Supply of the Country.

1. The Civil Law Administration is structured as follows

a. Management

1. Adoptions and Name Changes;

b. * Central Services Department

1. Finance;

2. * Services;

3. IT/Digitalization;

c. Land Registry Office;

d. Commercial Register Office;

e. Civil Registry Office;

f. Inheritance Office;

g. Main Department for Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Office

1. Debt Collection Department;

2. Bankruptcy Department.

1. The Civil Law Administration has, in particular, the following duties

a. Maintaining the land register;

b. Administration of the commercial register and in particular

1. Issuances concerning the management of the commercial register;

c. Debt enforcement and bankruptcy matters, specifically the issuance of official orders in this domain;

d. Registration protocol for livestock pledges;

e. Reservation of title register;

f. Public auctions of real estate;

h. Inheritance matters and in particular

1. Granting of extensions for the deliberation period according to Art. 576 and Art. 587 para. 2 of the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB);

g. Civil status affairs;

i. Adoptions and name changes, specifically

1. Issuances in the field of adoption matters;

2. Information requests from adopted individuals;

3. Issuances in the area of name change proceedings;

j. Secretariat of the Notarial Commission;

k. Management of the ship register;

l. Custody of precautionary mandates;

m. Examination of permits concerning agricultural land law and declaration regarding the possible waiver of appeal;

n. Examination of permits concerning the acquisition of real estate by foreign nationals and declaration regarding the possible waiver of appeal.

1. The Motor Vehicle Control is structured as follows

a. Vehicle Registration;

b. Driver Licensing;

c. Finance and Logistics;

d. Organization and Information Technology;

e. Staff.

2. The Motor Vehicle Control Authority has the powers conferred upon it by legislation in the enforcement of federal regulations regarding road traffic and the provisions regarding traffic levies.

1. The Office for Migration, Integration, and Civil Rights is structured as follows

a. Asylum and Return;

b. Entry and Residence;

c. Civil Rights;

d. Integration Department;

e. Measures and Law;

f. Central Services;

g. Staff.

1. The Office for Migration, Integration, and Citizenship has the following primary responsibilities

a. Enforcement of federal regulations concerning immigration and asylum;

b. Enforcement of criminal deportation according to Articles 66a-66d of the Swiss Criminal Code;

c. Enforcement of citizenship legislation;

d. Issuance of decisions regarding the acquisition and loss of citizenship in accordance with cantonal citizenship legislation;

e. Decisions regarding the existence of disputed Swiss and cantonal citizenship rights;

f. Planning and implementation of the cantonal integration program and addressing other integration issues, with the Department of Integration having independent professional authority and competence;

g. Point of contact for integration issues in dealings with the federal government.