PUBLIC SECURITY SERVICE UNDER THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

The tasks of the Service shall be as follows:

1) to restore and/or ensure public order in cases of extraordinary situations and emergencies;
2) within its sphere of competence, to eliminate the hazards posed to human life or health and property in cases of extraordinary situations and emergencies;
3) to ensure the organisation and carrying out of convoy operations of the persons detained, arrested and convicted;
4) to ensure the protection of important state objects;
5) to search for persons;
6) to strengthen forces of the Lithuanian police, the State Border Guard Service under the Ministry of the Interior, the Fire and Rescue Department under the Ministry of the Interior, the VIP Security Department under the Ministry of the Interior, the Financial Crime Investigation Service under the Ministry of the Interior and to assist these institutions in implementing the functions assigned to them;
7) to defend the State in the event of war;
8) to perform other tasks assigned to the Service by law.