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1. Somewhat confusingly, the position of Security and Intelligence Coordinator replaced, in 2001, the nearly identically entitled post of Intelligence Coordinator. The latter, of course, dated from the 1967–68 Trend Reforms to the Joint Intelligence Organization (Davies, Citation2012, pp.261–262).
2. ‘In principle’ because the Surveillance Commissioner never had the manpower to investigate even a fraction of the ‘classic’ surveillance of static and mobile watchers never mind digital open source acquisition and exploitation. This is unlikely to have changed radically since the Surveillance Commissioner’s role and powers were subsumed by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner under the 2016 Act.
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Philip H. J. Davies
Professor Philip H. J. Davies is Director of the Brunel University Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS). He has published extensively on the organization and management of national and defense intelligence organizations in the UK, USA, and elsewhere, and is one of the architects of the theory of intelligence culture. His is also one of the authors of the current British military joint intelligence doctrine and the first edition of the UK joint doctrine on ‘understanding’. Between 2013 and 2019 he also led on BCISS’ role as the principal independent training provider for the European Intelligence and Situation Center (EU INTCEN). His current work chiefly concerns intelligence communities outside the so-called Anglosphere, and an on-going project on military and defense counter-intelligence in the UK.