securocrats

Noun

securocrat (plural securocrats)

1. Any of the members of the police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
2. An influential official of the security services of any country.
   • I am a securocrat, it’s people like me, in the security services, people with a narrow responsibility for counter-terrorism. It is better for that to be defined by wider society and not securocrats.2014, Sir Peter Fahy, “Britain could drift towards a police state, says one of Britain’s top police officers”, in The Independent