Royal Security Service (Apilonia)
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The Royal Security Service is the Kingdom of Apilonia's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Royal Intelligence Service (RIS), Royal Communications Agency (RCA), and Defence Intelligence (DI). The Royal Security Service comes under the authority of the Home Secretary, and is headed by a Director-General holding the grade of a Permenant Secretary of the British Civil Service. As with the rest of the Apilonian intelligence community, the Service is directed by the Joint Intelligence Commitee, with regards to operational proirities, and is oversee by the Intelligence Select Commitee of the Apilonian Parliament. Legally speaking, the activity of the Royal Security Service is authorised by the Regulatory of Invesitgatory Powers Act 2002, with specific additional powers as a result of the Telecommunications Intelligence Act 2014 and, in extreme circumstances when appropriately authorised, the Defence of the Realm Act 1982.