different between securocracy vs securocrat

English

security +? -cracy (perhaps to rhyme with bureaucracy.

securocracy (countable and uncountable, plural securocracies)

(uncountable) The police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
(countable) Any of the powerful security services of certain other governments in countries throughout the world.

security +? -crat (perhaps to rhyme with bureaucrat).

securocrat (plural securocrats)

Any of the members of the police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
An influential official of the security services of any country.
- 2014, Sir Peter Fahy, Britain could drift towards a police state, says one of Britain’s top police officers, The Independent:
  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.

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