Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service

Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service

Idara ya Usalama wa Taifa (Swahili)
Secret service overview
Headquarters	Dodoma
Motto	Pax, Stabilitas et Prosperitas.
Employees	Suleiman Abubakar Mombo
Annual budget	unknown
Secret service executive	Director General
Key document	The Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service Act, 1996

The Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service (TISS) is the national civilian intelligence and security agency of Tanzania. ^[1]

The Agency works closely with other National and International intelligence and security agencies in the promotion and maintenance of clandestine and covert operations, counterintelligence, counter-revolutionary, counterterrorism, executive protection (especially the President of the United Republic of Tanzania and visiting foreign leaders), intelligence gathering and assessment both domestic and international, internal security, national's central intelligence affair for coordinating intelligence activities, peacekeeping, political warfare, preserve Tanzania's external security interests, support irregular warfare operations, and threat assessment to national security. ^[2]

Between December 2023 and 23 June 2024 Habib Kambanga was the deputy director. ^[3]

References

1. Habatika24 - Ofisi ya Usalama Wa Taifa

1. "The Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service Act, 1996" (PDF). Parliament of Tanzania. 1996. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
3. "President Samia replaces head of Tanzania Spy Agency". The Citizen. 2023-08-28. Retrieved 2025-01-11.

2. The Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service (Amendment) Act, 2023 https://oagmis.agctz.go.tz/portal/acts/245