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Director General of MI5

{{Short description|Head of the UK's Security Service}}

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{{Infobox official post

| post = Director General
of the Security Service (MI5)

| body =

| insignia =

| insigniasize =

| insigniacaption =

| image = Ken McCallum MI5.jpg

| imagesize = 200px

| incumbent = Ken McCallum

| incumbentsince = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2020|03|30}}

| department = Security Service (MI5)

| appointer = Home Secretary

| termlength = No fixed term

| residence = Thames House, London, UK

| formation = Security Service Act 1989

| succession =

| inaugural = Vernon Kell
1909

| website = https://www.mi5.gov.uk/

}}

The Director General of the Security Service is the head of the Security Service (commonly known as MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency. The Director General is assisted by a Deputy Director General and an Assistant Director General, and reports to the Home Secretary, although the Security Service is not formally part of the Home Office.

List of directors general

Directors General have been:{{cite web|url=https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/about-us/who-we-are/staff-and-management/former-dgs.html|title=Former Directors General|access-date=25 October 2014}}

  1. Maj Gen Sir Vernon Kell, 1909–1940
  2. Brigadier 'Jasper' Harker, Acting, June 1940 – April 1941{{cite web|url = http://www.statesecrets.co.uk/who/index-h.shtml|publisher = State Secrets...|title = Oswald Allen Harker (1886–1968)|access-date = 18 November 2007|url-status = usurped|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071007065049/http://www.statesecrets.co.uk/who/index-h.shtml|archive-date = 7 October 2007}}
  3. Sir David Petrie, 1941–1946
  4. Sir Percy Sillitoe, 1946–1953
  5. Sir Dick White, 1953–1956
  6. Sir Roger Hollis, 1956–1965
  7. Sir Martin Furnival Jones, 1965–1972
  8. Sir Michael Hanley, 1972–1978
  9. Sir Howard Smith, 1978–1981
  10. Sir John Jones, 1981–1985
  11. Sir Antony Duff, 1985–1988
  12. Sir Patrick Walker, 1988–1992
  13. Dame Stella Rimington, 1992–1996
  14. Sir Stephen Lander, 1996–2002
  15. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, 2002–2007
  16. Sir Jonathan Evans, 2007–2013
  17. Sir Andrew Parker, 2013–2020
  18. Sir Ken McCallum, from 2020

See also

References

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External links

  • [https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/about-us/who-we-are/staff-and-management/former-dgs.html List of Directors General on the MI5 website]

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