article_snippet: The security and intelligence service
article_snippet: ’s crest rightly reminds The security and intelligence service officers of The security and intelligence service duty ‘to defend our realm’.
article_snippet: Too often it wants to act as a ‘fire-fighting unit’, where it really needs to be a fire-prevention one.
article_snippet: But it needs the tools and manpower to do so.
article_snippet: It is now a security service we should and can be proud of.
article_snippet: Professor Glees is director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham .