TheDirezione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA), also known as theAnti-Mafia Investigation Division, is an Italian multi-force investigation body under the Department of Public Security of theMinistry of the Interior. Its main task is the fight against themafia-relatedorganized crime in Italy.
The DIA was established just before theDirezione Nazionale Antimafia ('National Anti-Mafia Directorate'), with its national anti-mafia prosecutor, and thedirezioni distrettuali antimafia ('Districtual Anti-Mafia Directorates'), spread on all the Italian territory within the 26 Court of Appeal.[2] The first director of DIA was the general ofCarabinieriGiuseppe Tavormina.[3]
Since 2013, as a police force with general competence, thePolizia Penitenziaria has been part of the DIA organics according to the legislative decree n. 218 of 15 November 2012.[4]
The DIA is a specialized investigation body with the exclusive task of ensuring the proceeding, in a coordinated form, of the preventive investigation activities regarding the organized crime, and to carry out judiciary police investigations related exclusively to crimes attributable to like-mafia associations.[5]
It is an inter-force composition; members are selected from those of the Italian police forces and from the civil personnel of the internal administration (belonging to the public security).[6]
DIA has its own collocation within the Department of Public Security. It has full administrative-financial and management autonomy and its organization is defined by the Ministry of Interior with proper decrees, after consulting theConsiglio generale per la lotta alla criminalità organizzata ('General Council for the Contrast Against Organized Crime').[7]
At the top of the structure there is a director, chosen in rotation between general officers ofGuardia di Finanza andCarabinieri as well as senior directors ofPolizia di Stato who had matured a specific competence in the field of the fight against organized crime.[8] In the exercise of his functions, the director is joined to two deputy director, and to one of them is given also the vicarious function, who have the task of overseeing respectively the operative and administrative activities.[8]
DIA has the tasks of performing investigations of judiciary police related to crimes of mafia-type association and it ensures the progress of preventive investigation activities regarding organized crime.
The director of DIA can propose to courts, competent for territory, the imposition of preventive measures both personal (like special surveillance) and patrimonial (seizure of assets) kind. In particular, the DIA, coordinated by Anti-mafia National Prosecutor, and the anti-mafia district directorates use their instruments as well as the Central DNA laboratory ofPolizia Penitenziaria for own investigations.
From 1992 to 31 December 2018, DIA seized assets for over €17 billion and confiscation for almost €10 billion.[10] Moreover, in the same period, about 10 501 people accused of mafia association had been arrested.[10]
^abD'Avanzo, Giuseppe (30 October 1991)."Arma e polizia si dividono l'FBI".La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved11 July 2019.La Direzione investigativa antimafia (Dia) ha il suo direttore operativo. E' il generale dei carabinieri Giuseppe Tavormina.
^abc"Istituzione".Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (in Italian). 24 November 2018. Archived fromthe original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved24 November 2018.
^"Il generale Alfiero lascia la Dia sarà vicecomandante dell'Arma".la Repubblica (in Italian). 10 April 2001. Retrieved11 July 2019.Il generale di Corpo d' armata Carlo Alfiero lascia la Direzione investigativa antimafia (Dia) [...]. Al suo posto in via di Priscilla si insedia Agatino Pappalardo, che da oggi sarà il nuovo direttore della Dia.
