Meaning of securocrat | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“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.”

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

CEFR level