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Encyclopedia > List of secret police organizations

This is a list of current secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on those pages. // Secret police (sometimes political police) are a police organization which operates in secrecy for the national purpose of maintaining national security against internal threats to the state. ... This is a list of secret police organisations and intelligence agencies which are fictional: // Contemporary world The Agency from Scarecrow and Mrs. ... This is a list of historical secret police organizations. ...


Note that the 'secret police status' of many of these agencies is open to debate and this list is not intended to be final or authoritative.

Contents

Agencies by country

Belarus

The Belarusian Presidential Guard is a law-enforcement body that was designed to protect the President of Belarus and other high ranking officials. ... KGB of Belarus is a current secret police. ...

Cameroon

The Brigade Mixte Mobile (BMM) is the paramilitary secret police of Cameroon. ...

Central African Republic

USP can be an abbreviation for one of several universities: In Cebu City, Philippines, see University of Southern Philippines; In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, see University of the Sciences in Philadelphia; In São Paulo, Brazil, see University of São Paulo; In Shiga prefecture, Japan, see University of Shiga Prefecture; or...

Chad

  • Agence nationale de sécurité (ANS) (National Security Agency)

Republic of China (Taiwan)

Today the country officially known as the Republic of China (ROC) is commonly known by the international community as Taiwan and occasionally as Chinese Taipei. It should not be confused with the other country officially known as the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), which is commonly known as China. ... The Taiwan Garrison Command (台灣警備總部) was a secret police/state security body which existed under the Republic of China military on Taiwan. ...

People's Republic of China

The Ministry of State Security (MSS) (simplified Chinese: 国家安全部; pinyin: Guojia Anquan Bu , or Guoanbu) is the security agency of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo

DEMIAP (Détection Militaire des Activités Anti-Patrie -- Military detection of Anti-fatherland Activities) is a secret police organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...

Republic of the Congo

  • Direction Générale de la Sécurité d'État (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security)

Côte d'Ivoire

  • Presidential Investigations Unit

Djibouti

  • Brigade Spéciale de Recherche de la Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Special Research Brigade)
  • Service de Documentation et de Sécurité (SDS) (Documentation and Security Service)

Ethiopia

  • Central Revolutionary Investigation Department (CRID)

Gambia

  • National Intelligence Agency (NIA)

Ghana

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) is the secret police of Ghana. ...

Iran

The Ministry of Intelligence and National Security (وزارت اطلاعات), is the primary intelligence agency of Iran. ... Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (Persian: سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی - Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enghelab-e Islami), often shortened to Revolutionary Guards, or called by its Persian name Sepah or Pasdaran, is a military organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...

Iraq

The General Security Directorate (Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma) is a domestic intelligence service of Iraq. ...

Ireland

This article is about the television series. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

Maldives

NSS Coast Guard Patrol Vessels NSS BRDM 2 and Cobra Armoured Vehicles The National Security Service (NSS), armed forces of Maldives was founded in 1978 after President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom came to power. ...

Nigeria

The State Security Service is the secret police of Nigeria. ... Fulfilling one of the promises made in his first national address as president, Babangida in June 1986 issued Decree Number 19, dissolving the National Security Organization (NSO) and restructuring Nigerias security services into three separate entities under the Office of the Co-ordinator of National Security. ...

North Korea

  • State Safety and Security Agency

Russian Federation

Emblem of FSB The FSB (ФСБ) is a state security organization in Russia, and is the domestic successor organization to the KGB. Its name is an acronym from the Russian Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции) (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii). ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for Committee for State Security, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... The NKVD (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del )(Russian: НКВД, Народный комиссариат внутренних дел) or Peoples Commisariat for Internal Affairs was a government department which handled a number of the Soviet Unions affairs of state. ...

Turkmenistan

  • Ministry of State Security

Uganda

The Internal Security Organisation (ISO) is Ugandas secret police or state security agency. ...

Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine (Служба безпеки України, СБУ; Ukrainian: Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny, or SBU as its sometimes referred to in English) is Ukraines main government security agency. ... The Ministerstvo Vnutrishnikh Sprav (MVS; Ministry of Internal Affairs) is the national police authority of Ukraine. ...

Venezuela

  • Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención (DISIP)
  • Dirección de Inteligencia Militar (DIM)

The Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención (Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services, DISIP) is the national intelligence agency of Venezuela. ...

Zimbabwe

The Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) is the national intelligence agency or secret police of Zimbabwe. ...

See also


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Police sometimes involve themselves in the maintenance of public order, even where no legal transgressions have occurred -- for example, in some Australian jurisdictions, people who are drunk and causing a public nuisance may be removed to a "drying-out centre" until they recover from the effects of the alcohol.
Local policing is usually conducted by the police departments at the county, city, township or village level and may range from one person offices (sometimes still called the town marshal) to the 40,000 men and women of the New York City Police Department.
Police organizations also must sometimes deal with the issue of police corruption which is often abetted by a code of silence that encourages unquestioning loyalty to one's comrades over the cause of justice.
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Secret police forces are typically associated with totalitarian regimes, as their activities are not transparent to the public, their primary purpose is to maintain the political power of the state rather than uphold the rule of law, and they have often been used as an instrument of political repression.
Secret police forces may be contrasted with the domestic security agencies found in modern liberal democratic states, which are generally subject to government regulation, reporting requirements and other accountability measures.
Secret police forces in dictatorships and totalitarian states usually use violence and acts of terror to suppress political opposition and dissent, and may use death squads to carry out assassinations and "disappearances".
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