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1988-93 Chief of the Police Intelligence
Service Hanne Bech Hansen, Denmark |
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Deputy
Chief Prosecutor of Fyn 1981-84 and Acting Prosecutor 1982-83, Deputy
Commissioner of Police of Gentofte 1984-86, Commissioner by the National
Commissioner of Police 1986, Leader of the Intelligence Service of the
Police (Chef for PET) 1988-93, Chief Prosecutor of Copenhagen,
Frederiksberg and Tårnby 1993-95, Commissioner of Police of Copenhagen
(Københavns Politidirektør)1995-2009. She lived (1939-2016). |
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1992-95 Director General of MI5 Dame Stella Rimmington, United Kingdom |
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Worked
with the police since the 1960s. 1990-92 she was Senior Deputy Director
General of MI5 and Director General until her retirement. (b. 1936-) |
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1993-2002 Chief of the Police Intelligence
Service Birgitte Stampe, Denmark |
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Deputy Commissioner by the National Commissioner of Police
(Vicepolitimester hos Rigspolitichefen) 1984-88, Commissioner of Police in
charge of Personnel 1988-93, Leader of PET 1993-2002 and Deputy National
Commissioner of Police (Vicerigspolitichef) 1996-2002. Commissioner of Police in Lyngby
2002-06 and later in Hillerød until 2007, when the post was abolished. The
Deputy Commissioner of Police in Hillerød was Inge Wilsbech Andersen. |
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1996-97 Chief of the
Police Security Service Ellen Holager Andenæs, Norway |
| Lawyer. |
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1997 Acting Chief of Staff for Intelligence
Claudia J. Kennedy, USA |
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She was Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence 1995-97 and
Deputy Chief of Staff and Lieutenant General since 1997 and Acting Chief of Staff for Intelligence
in 1997. |
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2000 Chief of the Intelligence Service Marisa Del'Isola e Diniz, Brazil |
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Up to her appointment as Chief she was Deputy Director General of
the Brazilian Intelligence Service for Human Resources.
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2001-04 Chief
of the Intelligence Service Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu, South
Africa |
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She was Minister of
Intelligence after having been Deputy Minister of Home Affairs from 1996.
ANC Activist since the 1970s, and Military training specializing in
Intelligence 1977-79. Minister of Housing 2004-09 and
Minister of Defence from 2009.
(b. 1954-). |
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2002-07 Head of MI3 Eliza
Manningham-Buller, United Kingdom |
She joined the security
Service in 1974 and has worked in a wide range of posts within it,
primarily concerned with counter terrorism. She has served as a
senior liaison officer to the US intelligence community in Washington
and in 1993 was promoted to be director of surveillance and technical
operations. She was later promoted to be director of Irish counter
terrorism, then
director of finance and IT. In 1997 she was appointed deputy director
general of the service, and in 2002 Director
General of the Security Service. (b. 1953-) |
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2007-08 Head of the Security Services (DAS) Maria del Pilar Hurtado,
Colombia |
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Resigned over a scandal involving illegal
survaillance of an opposition Senator. |
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2006-08 Head of the Foreign Intelligence Special Service
Anna Zhvania, Georgia |
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Former Advisor to the President of Georgia on
civic integration and programme coordinator of the Liberty Institute in
1998-1999. |
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2009-12 Chief of the NorwegianPolice Security Service Janne Kristiansen, Norway |
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Former Defence Lawyer, Leader of the
independent Norwegian Criminal Cases Review Commission 2003-09. (b. 1952-). |
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2012- Chief of the
Police Security Service Marie Benedicte Bjørnland, Norway |
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Former Chief of Police of Vestfold |
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2013-14 Director of the Secret
Service Julia Pierson, USA |
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She worked with the Secret Service
for 30 years, latest as chief of staff. It is a a federal law
enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of
Homeland Security which focus on fraud and counterfeiting and
the protection of the president and other high ranking officials |
Last update 16.09.16
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