the university's origin can be found in the psychosociology faculty of the alexandru ioan cuza police academy, which was created by a governmental order in 1991. the following year, a separate institution was created for training intelligence officers, the "high institute of intelligence" ("institutul superior de informații)." in 1996, it was reorganized as the "national institute of intelligence" ("institutul național de informații)" and in 2000, it came to have the current form.