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.
History
Organisation
The Director-General is the operational head of the Security Service, personally responsible for the operations and efficiency of the Service, ensuring it's political impartiality and ensuring that it only obtains and discloses information in accordance with statutory powers. The Office of the Director-General is responsible for supporting the Director-General, to assist him in the discharge of his responsibilities, in particular that the rule of law is paramount and that all methods of investigation are proportionate and properly authorised. In addition to this Office, two other groups also answer directly to the Director-General:
- Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, responsible for assessing all gathered intelligence relating to international terrorism, setting threat levels and issuing threat warnings.
- Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure, responsible for providing advice to organisations and individuals on security matters.
The Deputy Director-General, Operations (DDG(O)) is responsible for the conduct of all security investigations, principally through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT), but also able to call on other, technical, capabilities. Although these additional capabilities may be under the administrative control of other senior officials, in order to facilitate a smooth chain of command, operational control is exercised by the DDG(O). In addition to a small support staff, the DDG(O) controls the following sections:
- Section A, responsible for the investigation of all threats to the Kingdom from foreign intelligence services and associated groups, seeking to uncover classified information (counter-espionage).
- Section B, responsible for the investigation of all threats to the Kingdom from foreign intelligence services and associated groups, seeking to undermine the Kingdom's political or social institutions (counter-subversion)
- Section C, responsible for the investigation of all threats to the Kingdom from domestic terror groups, militia and associated groups, works closely with the Royal Apilonian Constabulary and the Royal Bureau of Investigation.
- Section D, responsible for the investigation of all threats to the Kingdom from foreign terror groups and associated groups, works closely with the Royal Intelligence Service.
The Deputy Director-General, Capability (DDG(C)) is responsible for providing a wide range of specialist capabilities to the Security Service as a whole, as well as providing analysis support to the operational sections. The DDG(C) is primarily responsible for administrative control and ensuring provision of services, with operational control exercised by the DDG(O) in most cases. In addition to a small support staff, the DDG(C) controls the following sections:
- Technical Section, responsible for providing a wide range of technical intelligence gathering methods, including but not limited to electronic bugging, computer infiltration and electronic manipulation.
- Surveillance Section, responsible for providing physical surveillance capability.
- Analysis Section, responsible for the analysis of all intelligence gathered by the Security Service, both to support operational requirements and to facilitate the further understanding of the context of the intelligence and the provision of intelligence briefs across Government.
- Technology Section, responsible for providing various technological equipment to both operational and capability-based sections.
The Deputy Director-General, Policy (DDG(P)) is responsible for providing a wide range of administrative and support services to Operational and Capability sections, ranging from ethics to training. The DDG(P) is primarily responsible setting policy in most areas, at the direction of the DG. The DDG(P) staff consists of the following sections:
- Ethics and Review Section, responsible for setting ethical policy for the Security Service, and for reviewing any violations of this policy to determine whether disciplinary action is required.
- Finance and Strategy Section, responsible for the financial management and strategy of the Security Service, as well as for auditing the operational expense of other sections.
- People and Security Section, responsible for all personnel management matters, training, as well as for providing an internal security capability.
- Registry Section, responsible for cataloguing and storing all intelligence gathered by the Security Service, as well as all other information and data held by the Service.