Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies Núm. 13 / 2019 Revista del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos n.º 13 - Año: 2019 - Págs.: 307 a 328 318318 and 154/2005) includes police activity and other kinds of functions. Regarding this, Article 149.1.29 of the Spanish Constitution establishes an asymmetric regimen on attributing to the State exclusive competence over Public Security with a clause of exception in favor of the Autonomous Communities which may create autonomic policies as established in their Statutes, within the framework of the Organic Law cit-ed. The Autonomous competence for the creation of their own policies is understood in the organic and functional sense. It includes all faculties proper to police services (CTS no. 175/1999, 148/2000, 235/2001 and 154/2005). However, State competence over public security demands a direct connection with the activity of protection of persons and goods, and negatively, the non-existence of specific links to the functions of the Autonomous police. The distinction between the two is not an easy one (CTS nos. 175/1999, 148/2000, 235/2001 and 154/2005), for which reason use is required of techniques of cooperation and coordination. The Organic Law on Security Forces and Corps refers to collaboration between the corps and forces of security of the state and the police corps of the Autonomous Communities, and regulates, as organs of coordination, the Council on Security Policy and the Security Boards of the Auton-omous Communities. Based on Constitutional Tribunal Sentence no.123/1984 — as recalled in CTS no. 87/2016, dated 28 April (LB5)— the Tribunal has considered as improperly placed the inclusion of matters of “civil protection”, unmentioned in the Constitution among the criteria for definition of competencies, within the concept of public security of Article 149.1.29 of the Spanish Constitution. As stated in Con-stitutional Tribunal Sentence no. 87/2016, the Tribunal has restrictively defined the concept of “public security”, upon affirming that “not all security of persons and goods, nor all regulation directed at achieving or preserving its maintenance, may be encompassed within the latter, for if such were to be the case, virtually the whole of the regulations of the Code would be rules of public security”. (SCT no. 25/2004, dated 26 February, LB 6, among others). According to Constitutional jurisprudence, “Public Security” refers to “activity di-rected towards the protection of persons and goods (security in the strict sense) and towards the maintenance of the peace and order of citizens”; although it is not limited to the regulation of “the specific actions of the so-called Security Police”, since “police activity is one part of the broader material on public security” which “covers a wide spectrum of administrative actions” (CTS no. 86/2014, dated 29 May, LBs 2 and 4, among others) and includes “a plural and diversified set of actions, distinct by their nature and content, although oriented towards a single intention of protection of the judicial good so defined” (CTS no. 235/2001, dated 13 December, LB 6, and those therein cited). Following all of the aforesaid, it may be stated that there exists a substantial coincidence between the sense and purpose of the titles of competence regarding materials set forth in arti-cle 149.1.4 and 29th of the Spanish Constitution and the concept of National Security, defined in Article 3 of Law 36/2015, dated 28 September, as: “the action of the state directed towards protecting the liberty, the rights and the well-being of citizens, towards guaranteeing the defense of Spain and its Constitutional principles and values, as well as towards contributing together with our partners and allies to international security in compliance with commitments undertaken”.
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