Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service

Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service (TISS)
Idara ya Usalama wa Taifa (Swahili)
Agency overview
Formed	1952 as Special Branch and TISS Act of Parliament 10/03/1998
Preceding agencies	Special Branch (SB); Tanzania Intelligence Service (TSI) (Idara ya Usalama wa Taifa (Tanzania));
Headquarters	Dodoma ; Tanzania
Motto	Pax, Stabilitas et Prosperitas.
Employees	Classified
Annual budget	Classified
Agency executive	Suleiman Abubakar Mombo, Director General; Deputy Director General (Mainland Tanzania); Deputy Director General (Tanzania Zanzibar);
Child Agency	Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau;
Key document	The Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service Act, 1996 ;

Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service (TISS) is the national civilian intelligence and security agency of Tanzania. It had its origins in Special Branch (SB), a department of the national police that was created in 1952 under the British administration.

The agency works closely with other national and international intelligence and security agencies in the promotion and maintenance of peace in the region.

It conducts 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, preserving Tanzania's external security interests, support irregular warfare operations, and threat assessment to national security.