The website of the Security and Intelligence Division of Singapore (Screenshot photo)This comes as the work ofSingapore's external intelligence agency, which is under the Ministry ofDefence (Mindef), has expanded in recent years.
The website, sid.gov.sg, will give Singaporeans a betterunderstanding of the important work that SID does and the opportunity to seek arange of careers, Mindef said on July 19.
An SID official noted the fundamentalreason behind the website is the need to improve recruitment of Singaporeantalents.
Fresh graduates - from the humanities ortechnology areas - used to be the mainstay of people coming into SID, he added,but mid-career talents are now also on the radar.
He noted that the threatsfacing Singapore have become more complex as they now span counter-terrorism,geopolitics, cyber attacks, information warfare, and even climate change, whichcould affect the region and the nation's food supplies.
In its news release, Mindef said establishedin 1966, SID has made significant contributions to counter-terrorism efforts.
These include working with other securityagencies here in the arrests of Jemaah Islamiah terrorists abroad after theyfled the country in the early 2000s, and helping to form the then Joint CounterTerrorism Centre in 2004. SID also supported efforts to disrupt a terrorgroup's plot to launch an attack on the Marina Bay Sands integrated resortin 2016, the ministry added./.
VNA
