Security Service

Security Service or security service may refer to:

Government
  • Security agency, a governmental institution for information gathering
  • MI5, also called the Security Service, the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency
  • U.S. Air Force Security Service, a former designation of the United States Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
  • RCMP Security Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's political intelligence branch, replaced by Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the 1980s
  • Swedish Security Service, the security service of Sweden, belonging to the Swedish National Police Board
  • Secret service, a government agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data
  • Secret police, a police agency which operates in secrecy and beyond the law to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian political regime
Other
  • Security service (telecommunication), security architecture for the interconnection of open systems
  • Security (finance), a fungible, negotiable financial instrument representing financial value
  • Any company which provides security. See Category:Security companies
  • Private Military Companies, private military contractors

Famous quotes containing the words security and/or service:

    “The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.”
    —Abigail Adams (1744–1818)

    “For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
    —Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)