Jānis Kažociņš

Brigadier Janis Kazocins (; born 11 May 1951, Peterborough, United Kingdom) is a former British Army officer and Latvian intelligence 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 and joined the Royal Artillery.

Between 1994 and 1995 Kazocins was based in Riga, as the first British military attaché to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. from 1995 to 1997 and retired from the British Army in 2002. From 2003 to May 2013 Kazocins was director of the Satversmes aizsardzības birojs (SAB; the Constitution Protection Bureau), Latvia's external intelligence service.

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 Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse, but on 18 December resigned from the commission.