Dame Stella Rimington
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45 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2013
last heard Jun 2013
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Well, if the implication of that criticism is that the security service should know everything that everybody who is known to them is doing every hour of every day, then it clearly isn't reasonable.
I mean, I don't know how many suspects there are, but let's say, and one has read this in the newspaper, that there are about 2,000.
And if you want to follow an individual around 24 hours a day, you would probably need a team of, let's say, six people.
And that's probably under-egging it with cars.
But that team of people would work for, let's say, six hours a day.
So you'd need to do it 24 hours a day.
You need three shifts of that for one person.
And then you might need other people, static surveillance, people sitting in a house, for example, to alert these people when the person was coming out, because you can't just sit outside the house.
You've obviously got to sit somewhere else.
Then you've got to have a control centre.
Then all that information has to go to a desk officer,
So you're building up a large group of people, and we're only talking about one of these manifold suspects we hear about, and doing that 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Well, you're the mathematician.
You do the sums.
It's an awful lot of people.
The people who will be on the list, if there is a list, will be people who have, for one reason or another, come to the attention of the security services.
But there are degrees of potential involvement involved.
And the whole art of the intelligence operation is to try and identify the people who are most likely to do something and focus their attention on those people.
And of course, that means that you might sometimes get it wrong.
If you have too much information, of course, you suffer from what the Stasi in Eastern Germany suffered from, which is an overdose of information.
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