Irish security forces

Irish security forces refer to the various security forces of Ireland. Among other roles, they carry out efforts to undermine the ongoing dissident Irish republican campaign since the Troubles. They consist of the following organisations;

Department of Defence

• Defence Forces
  • Army
    • Army Ranger Wing (ARW)
    • Ordnance Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)
  • Air Corps
  • Naval Service
  • Directorate of Military Intelligence (G2/J2)
    • National Security Intelligence Section (NSIS)
    • Defence Intelligence Section (DI)
  • Communications and Information Services Corps (CIS) SIGINT
  • Military Police Corps

Department of Justice

• Garda Síochána
  • Crime and Security Branch (CSB)
    • Special Detective Unit (SDU)
      • Emergency Response Unit (ERU)
    • National Surveillance Unit (NSU)
• Airport Police Service
• Dublin Harbour Police
• Dún Laoghaire Harbour Police

Department of Finance

• Revenue Commissioners
  • Customs

Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications

• National Cyber Security Centre

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

• Corporate Enforcement Authority

References

See also

• National Security Committee (NSC)
• Law enforcement in Ireland
• Law enforcement in the Republic of Ireland

1. Security forces
2. Directorate of Military Intelligence (Ireland)
3. Defence Forces (Ireland)
4. The Troubles
5. Army Ranger Wing
6. Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign
7. Palestinian National Security Forces
8. Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (Ireland)
9. Irish Army
10. Provisional Irish Republican Army
11. National Security Committee (Ireland)
12. Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1992–1999)
13. Structure of the Irish Defence Forces
14. History of the Republic of Ireland
15. Military police
16. List of weapons used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
17. Real Irish Republican Army
18. Collective Security Treaty Organization
19. Irish neutrality
20. List of law enforcement agencies