Police Security Directorate

The General Directorate for Security (Kazulian: Generaldirektoratet for Sikkerhet, GS) is Kazulian intelligence agency. It is charged with counter-terrorism, counter-espionage, countering cyber-crime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations, and social phenomena.

The organisation/agency was founded under the name of the Internal Security Service (Kazulian: Intern Sikkerhetstjeneste, IS), which was a merger of the Security Bureau and the Intelligence Bureaus of the National Police Service. It acquired its current name in 4142, with a small structural shift: where as the IS would answer to the Head of Government, the GS would now answer to the Minister of Home and Kingdom Affairs.

The Directorate's national headquarters is located in Waerness Lier (a decommissioned military base), drawing together personnel from a number of locations into a single HQ facility. The GS is currently governed by General Director Ellinor Ludvigsen.

Organisation
The General Directorate for Security comes under the command of the Ministry of Home and Kingdom Affairs. The directorate is headed by a General Director at the ranking of a senior member of the Kazulian Civil Service. The directorate is directed by the Joint Intelligence and Defence Council for intelligence operational priorities. It cooperates with the UE, SKJ, ME and the US and a number of other bodies within the Kazulian government and industrial base. It is overseen by the Select Committee on Foreign and Domestic Intelligence.

Operations of the service are required to be proportionate and compliant with Kazulian legislation including the National Intelligence and Espionage Act,the Anti Corruption Act and the Surveillance and Data Collection Act. According to law, the directorate cannot hire foreign nationals to the service but must instead hire Kazulian nationals.

Branches & Departments
The General Directorate of Security consists of several departments, they are:-
 * Department A: Administration
 * Department I: IT and operational intelligence technology
 * Department O: Central services and support
 * Department P: Political and Ideological Extremism
 * Department C: Counter-espionage, protective security and counter-terrorism
 * Department S: Security threats posed to by foreign extremists or from abroad
 * Department G: Ethnic extremism and terrorism

History
The GS was formed under the General Directorate for Security Act, after increasing regional tensions promoted/created the impetus for a government response to security concerns. Initially the GS was formed to counter the influence of ethnic extremism being peddled by the Gao-Showan ethnic groups but soon it became involved in counter-intelligence after the presence of Mikuni-Hulstrian political agent operating in the counter was identified by the Foreign Bureau.

From the beginning, the GS was troubled by a number of affairs. First, being when 44 Hulstrian political spies were arrested and charged with spying on behalf of Mikuni-Hulstria, but were later released as the information provided by the GS was insufficient to obtain court verdicts.

Since 4160 the GS is also concerned with the activities of foreign nationals in Kazulia, especially extremists and terrorists who operate in the country or plan their activities there, such as the Army for the Protection of the Emperor. One of the major intelligence failures in this field were the riots by supporters of the APE in 4170, which the GS missed due to supervising the Inauguration parade of the Statsminister.

The counter-intelligence activities of the GS were mostly directed against the intelligence agencies of its neighbors and all other Dovanian, Kerisian and Seleyan nations, however with eased relations with several neighboring nations (Dranland and Sekowo), the GS was since cooperated with these nation's intelligence services.