Office of Public Safety and National Security: Difference between revisions

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| picture_caption = [[OPSNS Headquarters| Kurst, Arcerion]]

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| preceding1 = [[Office of Domestic Intelligence]]

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| employees = 9,900 (estimate)

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Unlike many other nations that have a segregated domestic and foreign intelligence agencies, the OPSNS focuses on a full spectrum of national security issues, although domestically it works closely with the Ministry of Public Safety and the Emergency Response Group (ERG) and the Royal Arcerion Constabulary. A specific note is that while the OPSNS may conduct intelligence collection activities within Arcerion, any actions against Arcer citizens or that may reasonably be expected to involve Arcer citizens must involve Special Constables from the Ministry of Public Safety's ERG. This is to avoid overreach and provide a check and balance to the OPSNS' domestic activities.  

The Office of Public Safety and National Security is responsible for the collection and analysis of domestic and foreign intelligence in support of the government of Arcerion. This involves covert and clandestine operations, as well as activities that can only be authorized by the Prime Minister's Office. Concurrent to this, there is elements and divisions within the Office that are responsible for subversive political activities, targeting of High Value Individuals, or conducting economic, information, and political warfare. The OPSNS serves as Arcerion's unseen hand in South Cronan politics, complementing the rest of the [[Arcerion National Security Enterprise]].  

== Organization, Directorates, and Offices ==

The final element is a small team at the Coordination and Liaison Office (CLO). The purpose of the CLO is to work with Special Constables, the ERG, and other Federal or Governorate agencies to ensure the OPSNS satisfies their requirements or identifies areas where problems may occur due to jurisdiction or legal issues. This also is the nexus for how the OPSNS links into the government's Ministerial Coordination Element (MCE).  

=== Intelligence Dirctorate ===

The Intelligence directorate serves as an analysis and bureaucratic element within the Office. The OPSNS relies on the analyst teams, desk officers, and intelligence officers to collate and assess the large streams of information to brief and advise political decision makers in the government. The Intelligence Directorate is separated into Intelligence Bureaus which are further divided into Field Offices.

Intelligence Bureaus cover a specific type of intelligence (ie. the Bureau of Geospatial Intelligence), or a region (ie. Southeast Cronan Bureau). Intelligence Bureaus can be purely international in focus, solely domestic, or a combination of both. Field Offices are the on0the-ground forward elements for the Intelligence Bureaus, and are usually comprised of analysts and intelligence officers. The field offices work closely with the Operations Directorate to fulfill the tasks or questions asked and assigned by Headquarters.  

=== Operations Directorate ===

The Operations Directorate's focus is to generate Operations Teams, of which they are deployed to a foreign country or domestically for the purposes of generating intelligence or providing the Confederate Parliament and Prime Minister's Office with a means for deniable, covert and clandestine influence. Although very little is known about the Operations Directorate, aside from the fact that they work in small teams and use a variety of methods to generate intelligence. A news leak by the Capetian newspaper, Cape Town Free Press, in 2014 revealed that the Operations Directorate had a pair of teams deployed in [[Washakara]], teams 'Emile' and 'Francis', both of which were deployed to surveil President Breua Lunaesa's Economic Summit with [[Treaty of International Assistance and Development|TRIAD]]. The Arcer government denied these allegations and demanded an official retraction from the Cape Town Free Press, which after much pressure by the Arco government, was granted.

== Employees ==

The amount of employees formally working for the Office is classified and not officially acknowledged or disclosed by the Prime Minister's Office. A 2019 estimate by the Kurst Daily Times assessed it as approximately 9,900 based off of interviews with former employees and the limited open-source information available. Several large defense companies also provide contracting services for the Office, however these are not considered direct government employees, similar to how human sources recruited by the Intelligence Bureau are not considered employees despite being given compensation for information.  

== Relationship with Other Intelligence Agencies ==

== History ==

The OPSNS was created by the ''Surveillance Act (1950)''.

== Controversies ==

=== Operations during the Fourth Bush War ===

A news leak by the Capetian newspaper, Cape Town Free Press, in 2014 revealed that the Operations Directorate had a pair of teams deployed in [[Washakara]], teams 'Emile' and 'Francis', both of which were deployed to surveil President Breua Lunaesa's Economic Summit with [[Treaty of International Assistance and Development|TRIAD]]. The Arcer government denied these allegations and demanded an official retraction from the Cape Town Free Press, which after much pressure by the Arco government, was granted.

Since then, no official inquiry or investigation has taken place into the affair, and no disclosure from press sources confirmed or denied the activities occurring during the summit were in fact accurate or not. Some journalists and political columnists surmised that this was in fact an effort by Washkaran State Security to preemptively disturb and disrupt any Arcer intelligence gathering activities in the nation.  

=== Rumored Involvement in Porlos ===

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