Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur

Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence
Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur
Agency overview
Formed	1 July 2008
Jurisdiction	French Ministry of the Interior
Headquarters	Levallois-Perret, France
Employees	> 3,300
Annual budget	€ 41 million
Minister responsible	Claude Guéant
Agency executive	Bernard Squarcini
Website
http://www.interieur.gouv.fr

DCRI Headquarters in Levallois-Perret

The Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, DCRI) is a French intelligence agency which reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior. It became officially operational on 1 July 2008, through the merging of the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux and the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire of the French National Police.
The DCRI is headed by Bernard Squarcini.^[1][2] It is organised with a headquarters and eight departments^{[citation needed]}:

• Economic Protection (Gilles Gray),
• Terrorism (Michel Guerin),
• Intelligence Technologies (Michel Pages),
• Violent Subversion (Françoise Bilancini),
• General Administration (Thierry Matta),
• Support (Jean-François Lelievre),
• Counter-Espionnage (Jean Petronille),
• International Affairs (Eric Toucas).

The functions of the DCRI are:

• counter-espionage
• counter-terrorism
• countering cybercrime
• surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations and social phenomena.^[3]
  

References

1. ^ "La ministre de l'intérieur présente le nouveau visage des services de renseignement français", Le Monde, 13 September 2007
2. ^ "La réorganisation des services de renseignement", official website of the French Ministry of the Interior, 13 September 2007
3. ^ "Décret n° 2008-609 du 27 juin 2008 relatif aux missions et à l'organisation de la direction centrale du renseignement intérieur", French government website, 28 June 2008

External links

• Official announcement of the agency's launch on the website of the French Ministry of the Interior.