General Directorate for Internal Security
| Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | May 12, 2014 |
| Jurisdiction | French Ministry of the Interior |
| Headquarters | 84 Rue de Villiers, Levallois-Perret, France |
| Employees | > 3,300 |
| Annual budget | €300 million |
| Minister responsible | |
| Agency executive | |
| Website | www |
The General Directorate for Internal Security (French: Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure, DGSI) is a French intelligence agency. It is charged with counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations, and social phenomena.
The agency was created in 2008 under the name Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (French: Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur, DCRI), merging the direction centrale des Renseignements généraux (RG) and the direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) of the French National Police. It acquired its current name in 2014, with a small structural shift: contrary to the DCRI which was part of the National Police, the DGSI reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior.
The DGSI is headed by General Director Patrick Calvar. The agency is informally known as the "RG", a nickname formerly used for the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux which merged into it.
The fusion of the RG and the DST into the Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI) was a wish held by Nicolas Sarkozy when he was France's Minister of the Interior. The change was officially launched by the Council of Ministers on 20 June 2007, shortly after the election of Sarkozy as President. Minister of the Interior Michèle Alliot-Marie, however, was reputedly reluctant regarding this fusion and ordered the General Director of the Police Nationale, Frédéric Péchenard, to undertake a study of the proposal.
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