# Informações

The Sistema de informações da República Portuguesa (SIRP, Portuguese for "Informations System of the Portuguese Republic") is the coordinating structure of the Portuguese intelligence. It is the parent body for two separate intelligence agencies: the Serviço de informações de Segurança (SIS, Security Intelligence Service) for the internal security intelligence and the Serviço de informações Estratégicas de Defesa (SIED, Defense and Strategic Informations Service) for foreign intelligence. The SIS and the SIED are the public services responsible for ensuring—within the Constitution and the law—the production of intelligence necessary to the safeguard of the national independence and the safeguard of the internal security.