only concern the Hellenic Police but also the whole of Greek society, and naturally not only Greek society, but other comparable societies. The crucial issue is to identify the exact point where this ideological mush, quite widespread or even a commonplace within the security forces, is transmuted into ultra-right ideology as such, or into a systemic intrusion of the ultra-right into the Hellenic Police. Our basic thesis here is that the situation has indeed undergone this transmutation in recent years. The main feature is not just the ideological hegemony of views that recall ultra-right extremism on the level of ideology and the analysis of reality – because these views are always latent among the police and have solid bridges to its institutional memory – but their re-legitimatization as an institutionally proper constant within the police, as the only ideology that is able to express in the most successful way the oicial temperament of the security forces in a now bankrupt Greece. This is what emerged in a malevolent yet triumphant way ater the events of autumn 2013. In a historical juncture when all Greek workers, including police oicers, must live through devaluation, austerity and various dead-ends (while non-workers experience total frustration), the security forces stand inherently and systematically against them whenever social protest reaches a certain point of tension. At these borderline moments, the only political party that pets the security forces is Golden Dawn. This delivers the pay-of in the traditional elective ainity between the hard core of “indignant citizens” and parts of the security forces who see a credible ally in these strata. The transition of Golden Dawn to the political and electoral mainstream releases and legitimizes the dynamic expressed in the 2012 elections, thereby making the neo-Nazi party the most genuine expression of police indignation towards society and the State. 11/ NEW FORCES, OLD MINDS Ater how to contain immigration became the new “national question” during the 1990s, the “answer” came in a restructuring of the Hellenic Police services and the creation of new forces with special duties: the Border Guard and the Special Guard. Law 2622/1998 instituted police services for the protection of the borders. The sole duties of these new services were supposed to be to prevent foreign nationals from illegally entering Greece, to track them down, arrest them, or refoul them. The Border Guards are mainly concerned with illegal immigration. Unlike graduates of the Police Oicers Academy and the Police Constables Academy, they are graduates of secondary education and are recruited through a mixed system of employment credits, interviews and other requirements (physical ability, psychometric tests, etc.). They are employed for a ive-year service. Under Law 2734/1999, passed one year later, the Ministry of Public Order instituted regular positions for Special Guards, with the task of protecting stationary targets. This group is recruited through a system of objective evaluation and employment credits (Article 3, para. 5). Many special guards are former members of the Army Special Forces, as service there boosts their evaluation. In practice 36 | ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG