Internal Affairs was a branch of the Imperial Security Bureau. Their mandate was to watch the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order for any signs of disloyalty or behavior against the tenets of the New Order. They took a keen interest in the Commerce, Justice, and Science branches of the Coalition for Progress, and the Enforcement branch of the ISB. It did not consider the Select Committee to be above suspicion, but whether or not it had the authority to investigate members was unclear. Internal policing of the Commission was always lax, allowing Internal Affairs to use the ambiguity and gray areas to expand their influence and power base.