National Intelligence Service (Burundi)

The National Intelligence Service (French: Service national de renseignement, or SNR) is the national civilian intelligence and security agency of Republic of Burundi tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from internal and external and conducting civilian intelligence cybersecurity, clandestine and covert operations, counter-revolutionary, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, creation a civilian security network intelligence, executive protection (especially the President of the Republic of Burundi and Prime Minister of Burundi), intelligence gathering, internal security, maintain confidentiality of civilian intelligence information and documents, political security, political warfare, support irregular warfare operations, and threat assessment to national security.

The SNR is headed by an administrator-general (administrateur général) who reports directly to the President of the Republic of Burundi, while its individual agents report both to the SNR hierarchy and the public prosecutor. It runs its own detention facilities and is separate from the National Police of Burundi (Police nationale du Burundi, PNB) and the National Defence Force (Force de defense nationale, FDN).

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