The Integrated Protective Security Command (IPS) is responsible for securing the NCA to protect the public. IPS safeguards the NCA from the full range of security threats, enabling the organisation to achieve its operational objectives, both domestically and overseas.
IPS is responsible for the security of people, processes, technology and standards, supporting all teams - both operational and non-operational - to ensure the Agency remains resilient and retains public confidence in a volatile and complex threat landscape.
Business Areas
IPS Headquarters & Security Improvement
The IPS Headquarters (IPS HQ) function plays an integral role in enabling the Command to secure the NCA to protect the public. It is responsible for supporting the Senior Leadership Team in the development and delivery of NCA and Command priorities.
The Security Improvement Programme (SIP) is the main vehicle for the NCA’s ambition to transform and mature its security capabilities, and is intended to be a fast-moving, dynamic and highly prioritised area of the NCA’s portfolio across several financial years.
Physical, Operational and Technical Security
This team is comprised of seven capabilities:
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery International Security
- Operational Security
- Physical Security
- STRAP & iCDesk Management Unit (SiMU)
- Operational Supply Chain Security
- Technical Security.
Cyber Security
The Cyber Security Team comprises of three areas: Information Assurance, Defend and Respond, and the Security Analysis and Threat Intelligence Team.
The team’s purpose is to protect and maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of NCA information, whilst defending the NCA IT platforms, systems and services from existing and emerging threats.
The team also provides the managed response to cyber security incidents and ensures that cyber controls are proportionate, managed and balance risk against operational needs.
Personnel Security
The sensitivities of intelligence and operations and the extent to which information must be shared securely mean that NCA Officers and contractors must maintain the highest levels of integrity, reliability and trustworthiness. The organisation is vulnerable to attack by its key targets who will seek to corrupt its officers. In relation to personnel security, our objective is to eliminate as many risks as possible, and mitigate the impact of those that remain.
Personnel Security covers the following teams: Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), Professional Standards Unit (PSU), Security Vetting, and People Risk Management Team (PRMT).
