http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee 380 Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies Núm. 10 / 2017 elements of judgment, information, analysis, studies and proposals that are necessary to prevent and detect risks and threats, and contribute to their neutralisation. The aims, means and tools of National Security. Limited resources and their optimisation The direct aims of National Security are the protection of the freedom, rights and well-being of citizens, guaranteeing the defence of Spain and its constitutional principles and values, contributing to International Security in fulfilment of the commitments undertaken. In addition, according to the NSL, the following needs and other purposes should be highlighted: - To respond effectively to the constant mutation of actors and circumstances that endanger security levels; - Efforts to integrate and harmonise existing security objectives, resources, and policies; - To respond to the increasingly cross-cutting and complex risks and threats of an uncertain and unclear nature; - To act in a coordinated way as an objective shared by the central, autonomous and local government authorities, with the constitutional bodies, notably with the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, with the so-called private sector and with civil society; - To act preventively. In terms of efficiency and sustainability in the use of resources, it is the responsibility of the Public Authorities with responsibilities in areas of special interest for National Security and within the framework of the National Security System to establish the mechanisms of coordination and exchange of information, especially in relation to surveillance and warning systems indicating possible risks and threats, provided for in art.11 NSL. In this sense, as stated in art.27.3 of the NSL, public authorities will have a system of identification, evaluation and planning of means and resources corresponding to their respective fields of competence to deal with the possible risks and threats to National Security. Besides, the private sector will participate in the contribution of resources to National Security, according to art.27.5 and art.7 of the NSL, whenever circumstances so dictate and, in any event, when they are essential service operators and critical infrastructures that could affect National Security. It will be the Government, in coordination with the CCAA, which will establish the channels that will promote the participation of the private sector in the formulation and execution of National Security policy. In this sense, the approval of the Private Security Law 5/2014, of April 4, represented a decisive step here in Spain in the reinforcement of collaboration between Private and Public Security, which was de facto already taking place. “It is clear that the police force, at state, regional and local
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