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The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI). MI5 is directed by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), and the service is bound by the Security Service Act 1989. The service is directed to protect British parliamentary democracy and economic interests and to counter terrorism and espionage within the United Kingdom. Wit
Key facts
- Government agency.name
- Security Service (MI5)
- Government agency.logo
- Mi5 crest and logotype.svg
- Government agency.image
- Thames House and Lambeth Bridge, looking across the river.jpg
- Government agency.image_size
- 275px
- Government agency.image_caption
- Thames House, London
- Government agency.formed
- (as the Secret Service Bureau)
- Government agency.jurisdiction
- His Majesty's Government
- Government agency.headquarters
- Thames House, London, United Kingdom
- Government agency.motto
- Regnum Defende(Defend the Realm)
- Government agency.employees
- 5,259
- Government agency.budget
- Single Intelligence Account £3.711 billion (2021–22)
- Government agency.minister1_name
- Shabana Mahmood
- Government agency.minister1_pfo
- Home Secretary
- Government agency.chief1_name
- Ken McCallum
- Government agency.chief1_position
- Director General
- COA wide.year_adopted
- 1981
- COA wide.motto
- REGNUM DEFENDE
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Described at
CAIN: Abstracts of Organisations - 'S'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- security agency
- Field of work
- counterintelligence
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- City of Westminster
- Parent organization
- Cabinet of the United Kingdom
- Chairperson
- Andrew Parker
- Conflict
- World War II
- Official website
- www.mi5.gov.uk
- Image
- Thames House - Millbank Entrance - London.jpg
- Motto
- Regnum Defende
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- Commons category
- Security Service of the United Kingdom
- topic's main category
- Category:MI5
- applies to jurisdiction
- United Kingdom
- inception
- 1909-01-01
- category for employees of the organization
- Category:MI5 personnel
- described at URL
- cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/organ/sorgan.htm
- name
- ꠄꠝ ꠀꠁ ꠚꠣꠁꠜ
- hashtag
- mi5
- native label
- Security Service MI5
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