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R.G. Casey House, the head office of the parent department and of ASIS. The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS / ˈ eɪ s ɪ s /) is the foreign intelligence agency of the Commonwealth of Australia, responsible for gathering, processing, and analysing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence.
This is a list of current secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on their own respective pages. In this list, reputable sources, with relevant quotes, assert that the organizations in this list are secret police.
Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ; Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire) – Organised crime intelligence. Sous-direction anti-terroriste (SDAT) Ministry of Defence. Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE; Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure) – Foreign intelligence relating to national security.
The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) is Australia's overseas secret HUMINT collection agency with the mission to protect and promote Australia's vital interests through the provision of unique foreign intelligence services as directed by Government. ASIS's primary goal is to obtain and distribute secret intelligence about the ...
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO / ˈ eɪ z i oʊ /) is the domestic intelligence and national security agency of the Commonwealth of Australia, responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, terrorism and attacks on the national defence system
Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) – The Wehrmacht's version of the Gestapo SS-Sicherheitsdienst (SS Security Service) – The intelligence agency of the Nazi Party and the SS Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or Stasi) (Ministry for State Security) – active in the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War
Secret service – SS; Secretary – PA (personal assistant) Section – OR (Other Ranks – a 'section' of the British Armed Forces) See – LO; Senior Service – RN (Royal Navy) Sergeant Major - SM; Setter – I, ME, ONE (meaning the setter of the crossword) Setter's – MY (meaning the setter of the crossword)
Police officers who have been dishonest are sometimes referred to as "Brady cops". Bronze Police slang term used in Mad Max; originated in Australia but used in the UK. [citation needed] BTP Specialised use (mainly on UK railways) – abbreviation of British Transport Police, the oldest and one of three UK national specialist police forces ...