Homeland Security (Egypt)
| قطاع الأمن الوطني | |
 |
|
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 2011 |
| Preceding agency | |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Egypt |
| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Employees | 200,000 |
| Agency executive |
|
| Parent agency | Ministry of Interior |
The National Security Agency (Egyptian Arabic: قطاع الأمن الوطني, Ketaʿ El Amn El Watani, also Homeland Security) is an Egyptian security service, the main domestic security agency of Egypt and the successor of the State Security Investigations Service (Egyptian Arabic: مباحث أمن الدولة Mabaḥith Amn El Dawla). (Two other security agencies are the Military Intelligence and the General Intelligence Directorate which traditionally specializes in foreign intelligence gathering.) Its main responsibilities are counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance. The agency is under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry and is headquartered in Cairo. It "remains the most visible" of Egypt's security agencies and according to one estimate has about "100,000 employees and at least as many informants".
The old Security Service has been described as "detested" and "widely hated", and following 2011 Egyptian revolution its headquarters was stormed by protesters who made off with records. The National Security Agency was "established" (according to at least one source it is simply the old State Security Investigations Service with a new name) after the 2013 coup d'état that ousted Morsi and installed General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Nearly a hundred of the sacked senior officers of State Security Investigations Service were rehired.
...
Wikipedia