Secret Service (WSS)

The Security Service, also known as the Wessex Secret Service (WSS), or the Wessex Intelligence Agency (WIS), is Wessex's single military intelligence, counter-intelligence and Secret Service. The service is headquartered in the Intelligence Service Headquarteres, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The Security Service is under the jurisdiction of both the Home and Foreign Offices of Wessex. Formed in 1976 under the Security Intelligence Act, it was created officially to 'Protect the people of Wessex from interior, and exterior threats', and to perform counter terrorism and counter-espionage operations in the nation.