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.

   Washington and its partners need to work out how to talk to Xi's new cohort of technocrats, securocrats and ideologues.

   2023 May 28, Evan Medeiros, “America must grasp the opportunity to stabilise relations with China”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9

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   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