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 their own respective pages.

The organizations in this list have been alleged to have the characteristics of a secret police organization: operating without judicial oversight and other accountability mechanisms. In some cases, the status of the organization as a "secret police" organization may be debated.

"Domestic Intelligence Agency" is a common euphemism for organizations with broadly similar goals and methods.

Agencies by country

Afghanistan

• National Directorate of Security (NDS, (Persian) ریاست امنیت ملی, also referred to as Amniyat or Amaniyat)

Belarus

• Presidential Guard
• State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus

Cameroon

• Brigade Mixte Mobile (BMM) (Mixed Mobile Brigade)

People's Republic of China

• Ministry of State Security (MSS) (Ministry of State Security)

Chad

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

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)

Germany

• Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)

Ghana

• Bureau of National Investigations (BNI)
• SPD (Ghana) State Police Department (SPD)

Iran

• Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar (VEVAK) (Ministry of Intelligence and Security)
• Sepah Pasdaran Enghaleb Islam-e (Sepah or Pasdaran) (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps)^{[citation needed]}
• Parallel Intelligence Agency (Sazeman Ettela'at Movazi) ¹

Iraq

• Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma

Maldives

• National Security Service (NSS)

Nigeria

• State Security Service (SSS)
• Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA)

North Korea

• State Security Department

Sri Lanka

• Criminal Investigation Department
• Terrorist Investigation Department

Turkmenistan

• Ministry of State Security

Turkey

• Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı, National Intelligence Organization of the Republic of Turkey

Uganda

• Internal Security Organisation

Vietnam

• Tổng cục Tình báo (Department of Intelligence)

Zimbabwe

• Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)

See also

• Police
• Secret police
• Secret service
• Intelligence agency
• Star Chamber
• League of the Holy Court (Vehmgericht)
• Inquisition
• Surveillance
• Mass surveillance

Lists:

• List of intelligence agencies
• List of law enforcement agencies
• List of protective services
• List of historical secret police organizations
• List of fictional secret police organizations

References

• 1. About the Parallel Intelligence Agency, Gooya News