Serviço de Informações de Segurança

Security Information Service
Serviço de Informações de Segurança
Agency overview
Formed 1984
Type Intelligence service
Jurisdiction  Portugal
Headquarters Lisbon
Minister responsible
  • Júlio A. C. Pereira, Secretary-General of the SIRP
Agency executive
  • Horácio Pinto, director
Parent agency Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa (SIRP)
Website www.sis.pt

The Serviço de Informações de Segurança or SIS (Portuguese for: Security Information Service) is the Portuguese Intelligence and Secret Service agency founded in 1984.[1]

The function of SIS is to guarantee the internal security and prevent sabotage, terrorism, espionage and the practice of acts which, by their nature, can change or destroy the Rule of Law as constitutionally established.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "História SIS". www.sis.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Missão SIS". www.sis.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2013.
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