View source for Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland)

The [[Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland)]] is the senior officer of the [[Security Service]] (MI5) in Northern Ireland, reporting to both the Director General of the Security Service and to the [[Northern Ireland Secretary]].<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/glossary.html Glossary], MI5, accessed 13 July 2009.</ref>

==Billy Wright Inquiry==
In March 2008, a former holder of this post, identified only as Witness DCI testified to the inquiry onto the death of loyalist [[Billy Wright]]:
::The MI5 officer said this week that the inquiry panel had already seen evidence that the Intelligence Service had informed [[RUC Special Branch]] in April, 1997 about the [[INLA]] threat. 

::He said he had assumed police would have passed the information on to the prison authorities.<ref>[http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/No-coverup-MI5-officertells-inquiry.3878412.jp No cover-up, MI5 officer tells inquiry], Belfast Telegraph, 14 March 2008.</ref>

==List of DCIs==
*[[Dennis Payne]]-mid-1970s.<ref>Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.18.</ref>
*[[Hal Doyne-Ditmass]], C.1981-83.<ref>Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.484.</ref>

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:Northern Ireland]][[Category:Spooks]][[Category:MI5]]