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MI5 security Service London UK Royalty Free Stock Photo

Thames House, headquarters of MI5, the British security service in London, United Kingdom Royalty Free Stock Photo

Thames House, headquarters of the internal Security Service MI5 Royalty Free Stock Photo

Roundabout near Lambeth Bridge and Millbank London, United Kingdom Royalty Free Stock Photo

MI6 Building, London, England Royalty Free Stock Photo

MI6 Secret Service Building, London Royalty Free Stock Photo

Details of Thames House office building in Millbank, London, on the north bank of the River Thames Royalty Free Stock Photo

The Security Service, commonly 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 (SIS; also known as MI6) focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). All come under the direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). it's remit includes the protection of British parliamentary democracy and economic interests, counter-terrorism and counter-espionage within the UK. Although mainly concerned with internal security, it does have an overseas role in support of its mission.