MI6 to recruit 1000 extra people to assist in solving modern day crimes

The face of crime and criminals the world over has undergone a sea change and MI6 plans to recruit up to 1,000 extra staff to fight the modern threats that are facing the UK. The Secret Intelligence Service has already been allotted additional funds to expand its operations.
Detail are not known but it is believed that the new personnel will be experts in cyber, data collection, languages and foreign analysis. With this recruitment, it will take the size of MI6 from about 2,500 staff to as many as 3,500 by 2020.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 22 September 2016.

The news was first made public in the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review and it indicated the planned recruitment of 1,900 extra staff to the intelligence agencies - with MI6 to get the bulk of that increase. The Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service while speaking alongside his counterparts from the US, Australia and Canada at an event in Washington DC dwelt at length on the challenges facing Western intelligence agencies.
The digital age has broken down physical and geographical barriers and ideologies can spread easily through the internet. As a result, the cyber world acts both as a great enabler as well as a great disrupter of the intelligence mission. The information revolution has, in short, changed our operating environment.


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ISIS is hatching plans to carry out terror attacks across Europe this summer - they would be targeting holidaying tourists by posing as innocent ice cream and T-shirt sellers. This has been revealed by Italian intelligence chiefs. According to BND (Germany's equivalent of MI6), the beaches which are definitely targeted include resorts in southern France, the Costa del Sol in Spain and both coasts in Italy.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 April 2016.

German media has indicated that ISIS is sending jihadists who would pretend to be selling refreshments before detonating suicide vests and bombs that would be buried under sun loungers at Spanish, French and Italian resorts. The intention is to bring bloodshed to holiday resorts.
The Italians came to know about the sinister terror plans through a credible source in Africa. The would-be killers had formed 'concrete plans' to pose as refugees serving tourists with drinks and snacks or hawking beach accessories and T-shirts. Their plans involve the use of automatic weapons on crowded waterfronts, suicide bombings and explosive devices buried in sand beneath sun loungers.
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