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Special Branch is the arm of the Policing in the United Kingdom|British, Ireland|Irish and many Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth police forces that deals with national security matters. They acquire and develop intelligence to help protect the public (and the state) from national security threats, including terrorism, separatism, and subversion (political)|subversive and other extremist activity. The original Special Irish Branch of London's Metropolitan Police was formed in March 1883 to counter the Irish Republican Brotherhood . The "Ireland|Irish" soubriquet was later dropped as the department extended its remit to cover other threats. Each United Kingdom|British police force has its own Special Branch, the largest by far being that of the Specialist Operations department of the Metropolitan Police (SO12). These departments work closely with one another and with MI5, the Security Service. The officers work in plain clothes and are occasionally armed. Although they are not part of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), they are entitled to use the prefix 'Detective' in front of their ranks. Special Branch has responsibility for, amongst other things, personal protection of (non-royal) VIPs and performing the role of examining officer at designated ports and airports, as prescribed by the Terrorism Act 2000. The intelligence work of Special Branch is overlooked in some circles. This is because its role sits somewhere between that of the more enigmatic MI5|Security Service and that of the more glamorously titled Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch (SO13). It was announced, in September 2005, that the Metropolitan Police Special Branch would be merging with the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch|Anti-Terrorism Branch of the Metropolitan Police to form a new department called Counter Terrorism Command. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4227476.stm The Special Branch of the Garda S??och??na is now called the Special Detective Unit (SDU). The unit is responsible for:
The Emergency Response Unit, the Garda's equivalent of United States SWAT units, is also part of the SDU. The Special Branch of the Hong Kong Police|Royal Hong Kong Police Force (now Hong Kong Police Force) was disbanded in 1995, prior to the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong|transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China in 1997. The Special Branch is a separate wing in the state police forces in India. Like their counterparts in United Kingdom, they deal with matters of state security. However more serious espionage detection, etc., are done by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), India's internal security agency. The two organizations how ever work hand-in-hand and share various information. There have been many allegations that the Special Branch is used by the ruling government (and the political party) for setting up surveillance on their political opponents. The special branch wing is exactly in the hierarchy as that of the law and order police. The special branch has its own detective constables, head constables, inspector rankings and superior police officer rankings. Every police station is to have a special branch head constable (working plain clothes or Mufti), he would be observing the society in general, and also taking reports from the uniformed police constables walking the beat.
Category:Police organisation in the United Kingdom Category:Metropolitan Police units Category:Hong Kong Police Force Category:Law enforcement in Ireland Category:Police units of the United Kingdom Category:United Kingdom intelligence agencies This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Special Branch".
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