Law enforcement in Honduras

Current Branches

• Transit Police (Honduras) (Policia de Transito), a police force in charge of automobile transportation. They take care of car accidents, parking violations and other infringements.
• DGIC (Dirección General de Investigaciones Criminalisticas), agency take takes care of forensics, drug enforcement,
• Cobras (Honduras), armed conflict people

Historic Civil Guards now abolished

• Civil Guard (Honduras), a militarized police commanded directly by president Ramon Villeda Morales rather than the chief of the armed forces created in 1957

Historical secret police organizations

• Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI) (National Investigation Department)

Sources

1. World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto. by Taylor & Francis. 2004,
2. World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, 2nd. edition, Gale., 2006
3. Sullivan, Larry E. et al. Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.