Janis Kazocins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Janis Kazocins

Date of Birth: 11-May-1951

Place of Birth: Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Janis Kazocins OBE (Latvian: Janis Kažocinš; born 11 May 1951, Peterborough, United Kingdom) - former British Army Brigadier and Latvian spy agency director. In 1972 Kazocins received a bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Nottingham.
In 1973 he graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Kazocins served in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.
He participated in the planning of the first war with Iraq (1990-1991).
Kazocins was made an officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire in 1991.
Between 1994 and 1995 Kazocins was based in Riga,as the first British military attaché to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Kazocins was seconded to Latvia's defense forces from 1995 to 1997 and retired from the British Army in 2002.Kazocins became a Latvian citizen in 2003.
From 2003 to May 2013 Kazocins was director of the Constitution Protection Bureau, Latvia's security service (in Latvian, "Satversmes aizsardzibas birojs").
In 2013 he was awarded Latvia's Cross of Recognition.
From June 2013 Kazocins was an adviser to Defense Minister Artis Pabriks on international security and information technology.
In December 2013 Kazocins was appointed to lead the Public Commission for the assessment of the tragedy in Zolitude, but on December 18 resigned from the Commission.

State Chancellery of Latvia
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