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The Namibia Central Intelligence Service (NCIS) is an agency of the Namibian government. It is responsible for all intelligence services of Namibia and was established in June 1998 through Proclamation 12/1998 which enforced the Namibia Central Intelligence Service Act 10 of 1997. [1] The NCIS is headed by a director general.
At independence of Namibia there was no dedicated ministry for the security portfolio but a Minister of State, a position occupied by Peter Tsheehama, [2] the head of the Namibia Central Intelligence Service, until 2005. In 1995 the Ministry of Prisons and Correctional Services was established. [1] Its minister was Marco Hausiku. [3]
The other state-owned commercial entities are mainly active in education, media, and transport. They execute state functions and fall under their respective line ministries. [2] Some of the state-owned enterprises in Namibia are: [3] [4]
The legislative organs of government are the National Council and the National Assembly. They make the laws of the country. The judiciary organs of government are the courts. The highest court of Namibia is the Supreme Court. There are also the high courts and lower courts. [1] The Namibian government is partly centralised and partly regional.
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Namibia became independent on 21 March 1990 as a Commonwealth republic [100] [104] Under the terms of the constitution, persons born in Namibia prior to independence to a Namibian, or a parent who was an ordinary resident of Namibia who did not have diplomatic immunity or was not in the employ of another government at the time of the child's ...
The quality of the service provided by the police, such as the pictured Police of Denmark, is a component of security sector governance and reform. There is no single globally accepted definition of security sector reform (SSR), but it generally refers to a process to reform or rebuild a state's security sector towards good security sector governance (SSG).
The NIA was formed in 1994, the same year South Africa's first multi-racial elections were held. It was created to take over from the domestic intelligence segment of the then National Intelligence Service (NIS) with the foreign intelligence functions being taken over by the South African Secret Service (SASS).