The Presidential Security Service (SBP) (Russian: Служба безопасности президента России) is a federal government agency concerned with the tasks related to the protection of the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of Russia with their respective families and residences.
The Agency was founded by Boris Yeltsin in November 1993, headed by Aleksandr Korzhakov, a general of the KGB.
[1] From 2000 to 2013, the position of the head of the Presidential Protection Service was held by the General Viktor Zolotov.
[citation needed] The agency had about 2,500 personnel in 2007, as suggested by a publication in the Western press.
The Department operates a panel of experts from several intelligence services, such as GRU, FSB, and SVR.