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The National Security Coordination Secretariat (NSCS) is a unit under the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) of the Government of Singapore.Established in 1999, it was tasked to strengthen coordination amongst Singapore's existing security agencies; Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Singapore Police Force (SPF), Internal Security Department (ISD) and Security and Intelligence Division (SID).
The department was initially established as the Criminal Intelligence Department in 1918 after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1915. In 1933, the CID was renamed as Special Branch. [1]In 1939, it was restructured into the Malayan Security Service (MSS) which was not yet fully operational by the time of the outbreak of the Second World War.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA; Malay: Kementerian Ehwal Dalam Negeri; Chinese: 内政部; Tamil: உள்துறை அமைச்சு), sometimes referred to as the Home Team, is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for overseeing the national security, public security, civil defence, border control and immigration of Singapore.
The SID shared a similar background to its domestic counterpart, the Internal Security Department (ISD).. In the aftermath of 1915 Singapore Mutiny, to collect the political intelligence, espionage, and the surveillance of potential subversives, [6] a political intelligence bureau was established in Singapore under direct command and control of Major-General Dudley Howard Ridout, General ...
The secretive National Security Agency recounts its contributions to the decade-long search for 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in the launch of its new podcast, "No Such Podcast."
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO; Malay: Pejabat Perdana Menteri; Chinese: 总理公署; Tamil: பிரதமர் அலுவலகம்) is the executive branch of the Government of Singapore responsible for overseeing the other ministries and political matters that are of great importance to the nation, such as tackling corruption and holding elections.
The Maritime Security Task Force is a high-readiness standing task force of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) responsible for maritime security operations. [1] [2]It is structured to work closely with other task forces of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), other national maritime agencies, and international partners.
The China-Kazakhstan-Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan Border Disarmament Implementation Office of the Ministry of National Defense (which monitors the 1996 agreement on demilitarization of the border by the Shanghai Five) [9] is headed by Huang Xiaodong, the head of the Border Defense Bureau, and it is likely part of a "two organizations, one office ...