Chloe Squires

Chloe Squires British intelligence officer

Chloe Elise Pemberton Bourke (usually known by her maiden name as Chloe Squires) (Date of birth October 1977, mothers maiden name Pemberton) is a British intelligence officer. From 2021 until the latter half of September 2015 she was director General of the Homeland Security Group in the Home Office.

An official biographical notes states that:

Prior to this appointment, she was Director National Security in the Home Office and led on a range of national security issues including:

• aspects of counter-terrorism
• the domestic response to hostile state activity
• implementation of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act and associated oversight mechanisms
• the operational relationship with MI5
• the use of national security related immigration and disruption powers

Homeland Security Group

Director General, Homeland Security Group

The Homeland Security Group sits at the heart of the UK’s national security system, setting strategic direction and playing a crucial enabling role in national security and law enforcement operations.

Its mission is to reduce national security risks to the UK’s people, prosperity and freedoms. It focuses on the highest harm risks to the homeland, whether from terrorists, state actors, or cyber and economic criminals.

The Homeland Security Group:

• provides system leadership for counter-terrorism and the domestic response to state threats
• provides joint leadership for countering illicit finance and economic crime
• maintains and delivers the legal and policy frameworks for some of the most important national security and policing powers, in particular investigatory powers, and delivers crucial investigative capabilities, including communications data
• facilitates the warrantry for the use of policing and investigatory powers and the oversight of operational partners
• coordinates the operational response to a domestic national security incident including by facilitating COBR and authorising military assets during an ongoing terrorist incident
• supports sensitive immigration decisions needed as part of a live incident and on a routine basis
• makes a critical contribution to harnessing cutting-edge capabilities and building UK cyber power by:
  • leading efforts to deliver next-generation interception of communications
  • providing critical investment in science and technology to anticipate the emerging technologies of the future.