Editing MI5 (section)

=== Oversight ===
All employees of the service are bound by the [[Official Secrets Act 1989|Official Secrets Act]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Leach|first1=Robert|last2=Coxall|first2=Bill|last3=Robins|first3=Lynton|date=17 August 2011|title=British Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l6McBQAAQBAJ&q=MI5+officers+bound+by+the++Official+Secrets+Act&pg=PA341|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-34422-8|page=341|access-date=11 July 2015}}</ref>  In certain circumstances, officers handling agents or informers may authorise them to carry out activity which would otherwise be criminal within the United Kingdom.<ref name=Guardian-20180302>{{Cite news|last=Grierson|first=Jamie|date=2 March 2018|url=https://www.TheGuardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/02/mi5-agents-are-allowed-to-commit-in-uk-government-reveals|title=MI5 agents can commit crime in UK, government reveals|website=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=3 March 2018}}</ref> The Security Service "is authorised to investigate any person or movement that might threaten the...security" of the United Kingdom.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=11 April 2023 |title=MI5 |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/MI5 |access-date=9 May 2023 |publisher=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |language=en}}</ref> The current Director General is [[Ken McCallum]], who succeeded [[Andrew Parker, Baron Parker of Minsmere|Andrew Parker]] in April 2020.<ref name="HomeOffice">{{Cite web|title=Appointment of the new Director General of the Security Service|url=https://www.GOV.uk/government/news/appointment-of-the-new-director-general-of-the-security-service|website=www.GOV.uk|publisher=[[Home Office]]|date=28 March 2013|access-date=20 August 2013}}</ref>