Homeland Security Group
The Homeland Security Group was created in April 2021[1] and is the new name for the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the Home Office. Like the OSCT the HSG is one of the ‘seven Agencies and Departments which form the UK Intelligence Community’.[2]
The other six agencies are:
- MI5 (the Security Service);
- MI6 (the Secret Intelligence Service);
- GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters);
- Defence Intelligence in the Ministry of Defence;
- the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) in the Cabinet Office;
- the National Security Secretariat (NSS) in the Cabinet Office; and
- the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) in the Home Office.
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Notes
- ↑ https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/home-office-appoints-director-of-homeland-security
- ↑ Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament How the Committee works. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 11 March 2020.
- ↑ Home Office New Director General for Homeland Security announced: New head of Homeland Security took up the role at the beginning of April. Published 7 April 2021. Retrieved from Archive.today of 20 February 2022.
