Who is the director of homeland security

Director General, Homeland Security Group

Who is the director of homeland security

Biography

Chloe Squires is the Director General for Homeland Security in the Home Office.

Prior to this appointment, she was Director National Security in the Home Office (from May 2019) and led on a range of national security issues including aspects of Counter Terrorism, the domestic response to Hostile State Activity, implementation of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act and associated oversight mechanisms, the operational relationship with MI5 and the use of national security related immigration and disruption powers.

After graduating with a degree in History from Oxford University, Chloe joined the UK Civil Service Fast Stream. She has spent most of her career working in the national security sphere on both domestic and international issues including stints in the FCDO and Cabinet Office. Amongst other areas she has led on NATO, national security legislation and compliance and crisis management.

Cyber Security has been a theme throughout Chloe’s career, having jointly authored the UK’s first Cyber Security Strategy. She has since worked as both Director Cyber in the FCDO and as Director of Strategy, as part of the team who set up the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre in 2016 in GCHQ.

Chloe is married with a young daughter (who occupies most of her spare time!). She is also trustee of a community garden near her home in north London.

Director General, Homeland Security Group

The Homeland Security Group is responsible for work in the Home Office to counter terrorism and to cut serious and organised crime (SOC). The HSG’s work is built around two cross-government strategies: CONTEST, the counter-terrorism (CT) strategy and the serious and organised crime strategy.

The HSG’s work is based on the following four work streams:

Prevent: stopping people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism and extremism; raising awareness of, intervening and stopping people being drawn into different types of crime

Protect: improving protective security to stop a terrorist attack; protecting people at risk of being victims of crime and strengthening systems to establish identity

Prepare: working to minimise the impact of an attack and to recover from it as quickly as possible; ensuring that major serious and organised crime incidents are brought to a rapid and effective resolution; supporting communities, victims and witnesses affected by organised crime

Pursue: investigating and disrupting terrorist attacks; targeting criminal finances and ensuring that effective legal powers are available to improve our capabilities and cooperation with others.

The HSG’s objectives are to:

  • develop, coordinate and assess delivery of the Government’s counter-terrorism and serious and organised crime strategies
  • deliver elements of those strategies that fall to HSG
  • enable oversight by the Home Secretary of the Security Service (MI5), the National Crime Agency (NCA) and police CT
  • co-ordinate domestic CT crisis management
  • maintain capabilities to collect, access and exploit communications data and content
  • support our security industry, notably in promoting security related exports

Home Office

Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security by President Biden on February 2, 2021.  

Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant confirmed to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security. He has led a distinguished 30-year career as a law enforcement official and a nationally-recognized lawyer in the private sector. Mayorkas served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2016, and as the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013. During his tenure at DHS, he led the development and implementation of DACA, negotiated cybersecurity and homeland security agreements with foreign governments, led the Department’s response to Ebola and Zika, helped build and administer the Blue Campaign to combat human trafficking, and developed an emergency relief program for orphaned youth following the tragic January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Mayorkas also created the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate to better ensure the integrity of the legal immigration system.

Mayorkas began his government service in the Department of Justice, where he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California, specializing in the prosecution of white collar crime. After nearly nine years as a federal prosecutor, he became the youngest United States Attorney in the nation, overseeing prosecutions of national significance, including the investigation and prosecution of financial fraud, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, public corruption, violent crime, cybercrime, environmental crime, international money laundering, and securities fraud.

Mayorkas received his bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree from Loyola Law School.

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