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Practice Leaflet forractice Leaflet forSecurity Serviceecurity ServiceQualifying Testualifying Test
Please read this leaflet carefully as it will help you to dolease read this leaflet carefully as it will help you to doyour best in the qualifying test.our best in the qualifying test.
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INTRODUCTION
This leaflet provides you with information about the exercise that you will be asked to complete
when you attend the qualifying test session. To enable you to perform at your best you are
advised to take this opportunity to familiarise yourself with the format of the test and try out
the examples enclosed.
PRACTICE TEST INSTRUCTIONS
The exercise is designed to assess how effective you are at processing and assessing information.
You are required to compare data, identify patterns and spot connections. In the exercise you
will need to imagine that you are an Intelligence Officer in the Derandan Security Agency
(DSA). Deranda is a fictitious country and all the information presented about it has been made
up for this exercise. The issues, procedures and intelligence are also fictitious and not whollyreflective of the working practices or views of the UK Security Service.
One of the DSAs roles is to assess information relating to threats to Derandan national security.
In this exercise your task will be to decide which of a number of extra pieces of information are
required to make an assessment of whether, and with what urgency, information should be
shared with partner agencies. You will not be asked to write any assessments.
To help you, you are provided with a Guidance Note. This provides background information tohelp you make your decisions. It is based on precedents set by the experiences of other
Intelligence Officers. An example of a Guidance Note is on page 4 of this booklet.
The booklet also contains Intelligence Summaries and Intelligence Updates. The Intelligence
Summaries relate to one of three areas of the DSAs work: counter-terrorism, counter-
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and counter-espionage. An example of an
Intelligence Summary is on page 5 of this booklet.
The Intelligence Updates build on the Intelligence Summaries. They contain the extra pieces of
information referred to above. All this extra information is of interest; you need to decide which
pieces are required for the assessment you have been asked to make. Other parts of the DSA will
use anything you discard. An example of an Intelligence Update is on page 5 of this booklet.
When you have worked out whether or not a piece of extra information is required for the
assessment, you should shade in one of the circles next to that piece of information. You should
shade in the circle under the Yes heading if you think the information is required and shade inthe circle under the No heading if you think the information is not required. In the extract
below the No heading has been shaded in as the information is not considered to be required.
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You should identify the minimum number of pieces of extra information. This could be all of the
pieces, none of them, or any number in between. You will gain marks for each piece of
information you correctly identify as required or not required.
Now try practice example A on page 5. You will need to refer to the Guidance Note on page 4
to answer the questions.
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NoYesRequired for the Assessment?
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Guidance Note Sharing Information
When intelligence is received, it is important that an assessment is made of whether and with
what urgency to share it with partner agencies.
This decision is based on a combination of two factors. The first factor that is considered is
whether or not the partner agency has made a request for specific intelligence to be shared with
it. The second factor to bear in mind is how significant the DSA liaison department considers
the information would be to the partner agency.
A combination of these factors produces an assessment of how quickly the information is to be
shared. The information may either be shared with the partner agency immediately or as part
of the regular liaison meetings that take place.
No one has written down how to combine these factors but the examples below should provide
you with an idea of how decisions are reached regarding the sharing of information:
Intelligence received
Specific
intelligence
requested bypartner agency
Significance to
partner agency as
assessed by DSA
liaison
department
How quickly should
intelligence be shared?
XYZ1 Yes Highly significant Immediately
XYZ2 Yes Insignificant Immediately
XYZ3 No Highly significant Immediately
XYZ4 No Significant At regular meeting
XYZ5 No Insignificant Not shared
XYZ6 No Highly significant Immediately
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COUNTER-TERRORISM PRACTICE EXAMPLE A
(You need to follow Guidance Note Sharing Information to answer these questions.)
Intelligence Summary
Information has been received about the activities of the FNM, a terrorist organisation operating within
Deranda. An assessment needs to be made of how that information should be shared with the partner agency,
the Deranda Police Force. The Deranda Police Force has not made any specific requests for information
regarding the FNM.
Intelligence Updates
FNM stands for The Futami Nationalist Movement.
The FNMs leader is Jerome Filimbi.
The DSA liaison department considers the information it has received to be of
significant interest to the Deranda Police Force.
The next liaison meeting with the Deranda Police Force is in 3 days.
Liaison meetings always take place at the DSAs headquarters.
The Deranda Police Force has made a request to all its partner agencies to
provide it with any intelligence regarding the activity of an organised crime
group called the GSF.
NoYesRequired for the Assessment?
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The answers to this example are on the next page
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ANSWERS TO PRACTICE EXAMPLE A
You will see from the table presented in the Guidance Note that:
If a partner agency makes a specific request for intelligence, an assessment is made to share it immediately
regardless of the significance placed on the intelligence by the DSA liaison department.
If a partner agency does not make a specific request for intelligence, an assessment regarding when to share
the information is dependent on how significant the DSA liaison department considers the information to be
to the partner agency.
NoYesCounter-Terrorism Answers to Practice Example A
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Although this information is of interest it is irrelevant for the purposes of
assessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.The circle under the No heading has therefore been filled in.
Although this information is of interest it is also irrelevant for the purposes of
assessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.
Although the Deranda Police Force has not made a specific request forinformation regarding the FNM, the significance to the Deranda Police Force as
assessed by the DSA liaison department will have an impact upon when the
information will be shared. This information should therefore be marked as
required.
This information is of interest but is irrelevant for the purposes of assessing how
to share information and so should be marked as not required.
This information is of interest but is irrelevant for the purposes of assessing how
to share information and so should be marked as not required.
The specific request to share information is with regard to the GSF not the FNM.
This information is therefore irrelevant for the purposes of assessing how to
share information about the FNM and so should be marked as not required.
Now try practice example B on the next page
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COUNTER-PROLIFERATION PRACTICE EXAMPLE B
(You need to follow Guidance Note Sharing Information to answer these questions.)
Intelligence Summary
Information has been received regarding the activities of the DLF. Intelligence suggests that it is developing its
weapons arsenal. A partner agency, The Deranda Military Intelligence Unit, has requested that any information
regarding the activities of the DLF and the development of its weapons capability be shared with it at theearliest opportunity.
Intelligence Updates
DLF stands for the Derandan Liberation Front.
The Deranda Military Intelligence Unit is aware that the DLF possesses a
significant arsenal of guns and ammunition.
The DSA liaison department considers the information it has received to be of
significant interest to the Deranda Military Intelligence Unit.
The Deranda Military Intelligence Unit routinely requests information about the
possible acquisition of weapons by terrorist organisations.
The Deranda Military Intelligence Unit is mainly composed of army personnel.
Liaison takes place between the DSA and the Deranda Military Intelligence Unit
every four days.
NoYesRequired for the Assessment?
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The answers to this example are on the next page
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ANSWERS TO PRACTICE EXAMPLE B
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NoYesCounter-Proliferation Answers to Practice Example B
Although this information is of interest it is irrelevant for the purposes of
assessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.
Although this information is of interest it is irrelevant for the purposes of
assessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.
The Deranda Military Intelligence Unit specifically requested that information
regarding the DLF and the development of their weapons capability be shared
with them. The Guidance Note suggests that when specific information is
requested by a partner agency, a decision is made to share it immediately
regardless of the assessment of significance made by the DSA Liaison
Department. This information is therefore redundant and so should be marked
as not required.
Although this information is of interest it is irrelevant for the purposes ofassessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.
Although this information is of interest it is irrelevant for the purposes of
assessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.
Although this information is of interest it is irrelevant for the purposes of
assessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.
Now try practice example C on the next page
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COUNTER-ESPIONAGE PRACTICE EXAMPLE C
(You need to follow Guidance Note Sharing Information to answer these questions.)
Intelligence Summary
Intelligence has been received that a team of agents from the neighbouring country of Bonacca may enter
Deranda within the next two months. There is no specific information regarding the teams proposed activities
and Bonacca has never posed a threat to Deranda. While none of the DSAs partner agencies has requestedinformation regarding the activities of Bonaccas intelligence community, an assessment needs to be made of
when the intelligence should be shared with the Deranda Military Intelligence Unit and the Deranda Police Force.
Intelligence Updates
NoYesRequired for the Assessment?
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Bonacca has never sent a team of agents to Deranda before.
The DSA liaison department considers the information it has received to be
highly significant to the Deranda Military Intelligence Unit.
The DSA liaison department considers the information it has received to be of
significance to the Deranda Police Force.
The Deranda Military Intelligence Unit has not requested any information
regarding activities of Bonaccas intelligence community.
The Deranda Police Force has not requested any information regardingactivities of Bonaccas intelligence community.
The Deranda Police Force has no formal liaison arrangements with the Deranda
Military Intelligence Unit but they meet monthly.
The answers to this example are on the next page
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ANSWERS TO PRACTICE EXAMPLE C
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NoYesCounter-Espionage Answers to Practice Example C
Although this information is of interest it is irrelevant for the purposes of
assessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.
Although no agency has made a specific request for information regarding the
Bonaccan intelligence community, the significance to the Deranda Military
Intelligence Unit as assessed by the DSA liaison department will have an impact
upon when the information will be shared. This information should therefore
be marked as required.
Although no agency has made a specific request for information regarding the
Bonaccan intelligence community, the significance to the Deranda Police Force
as assessed by the DSA liaison department will have an impact upon when the
information will be shared. This information should therefore be marked as
required.
We already know from the information presented in the Intelligence
Summaries that none of the DSAs partner agencies has requested information
regarding the activities of Bonaccas intelligence communities so this
information is redundant.
We already know from the information presented in the Intelligence
Summaries that none of the DSAs partner agencies has requested information
regarding the activities of Bonaccas intelligence communities so this
information is redundant.
Although this information is of interest it is irrelevant for the purposes of
assessing how to share information and so should be marked as not required.
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FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS
When you complete the exercise at the test centre, you will be presented with a number of new
Guidance Notes. You will be told which Guidance Note you need to attend to as the exercise
progresses. The Guidance Notes build upon each other and are presented in sequence so you
should read them in the order they are provided. As you progress to each new Guidance Note,
the previous Notes are still applicable and you should continue to consider these.
The information relating to each of the situations described in the Intelligence Summaries
builds up as the exercise progresses so you should attempt each question in sequence. The
exercise will last for approximately one hour.
The exercise will be presented in a document like this one so if you have any difficulties reading
it or any other specific requirements please contact Penna on 0845 450 2152 as soon aspossible.
We look forward to meeting you at the test session where you will receive further instructions
about this test and have a chance to ask any questions.
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