Public Security Auxiliary Guard membership card
In the 1980s, the Public Security Auxiliary Guard (PS-VB) had been an established organization for several decades, bringing together - as the name suggests - civilian collaborators of the Public Security. The PS-VB recruited citizens who were "committed to the socialist social and state system and enjoy general respect and trust".
The assistants performed their duty without weapons and always in civilian clothes, visibly marked with armbands and provided with a legitimation. Their tasks were mainly of a policing nature (e.g. preventing illegal activities, stopping and checking vehicles, legitimising persons), but also of an intelligence nature (gathering information for counter-intelligence, movement of diplomatic vehicles).
The collection card belonged to PS-VB member Václav V. and was issued in 1987.
The roots of the PS-VB go back to the early 1950s and it was abolished in 1990.