MI5

The Security Service, also known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI). MI5 is directed by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), and the service is bound by the Security Service Act 1989. The service is directed to protect British parliamentary democracy and economic interests and to counter terrorism and espionage within the United Kingdom (UK).

For other uses, see MI-5 (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with MI6.

Security Service (MI5)

Thames House, London
Agency overview
Formed7 October 1909 (1909-10-07)
(as the Secret Service Bureau)
JurisdictionHis Majesty's Government
HeadquartersThames House, London, United Kingdom
51°29′38″N 0°07′32″W
MottoRegnum Defende
(Defend the Realm)
Employees5,259
Annual budgetSingle Intelligence Account £3.711 billion (2021–22)
Minister responsible
Agency executive
Websitewww.mi5.gov.uk
Footnotes

    Within the civil service community, the service is colloquially known as Box, or Box 500, after its official wartime address of PO Box 500; its current address is PO Box 3255, London SW1P 1AE.

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