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

Belarus

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

Cameroon

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

Chad

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

People's Republic of China

• Guojia Anquan Bu (Guoanbu) (Ministry of State Security)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Détection Militaire des Activités Anti-Patrie (DEMIAP) (Military Detection of Anti-Fatherland Activities)

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

• 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)
• 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

South Korea

• Korean National Police Agency

Russian Federation

• Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB) (Federal Security Service)

Turkmenistan

• Ministry of State Security

Uganda

• Internal Security Organisation

Ukraine

• Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny (SBU) (Security Service of Ukraine)

United Kingdom

• Forward Intelligence Team

United States of America

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Zimbabwe

• Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)

See also

• Police
• Secret police
• Secret service
• Intelligence agency
• List of intelligence agencies
• List of law enforcement agencies
• List of protective services
• Star Chamber
• League of the Holy Court (Vehmgericht)
• Inquisition
• Surveillance
• Mass surveillance
• Menwith Hill
• List of historical secret police organizations
• List of fictional secret police organizations

References

• 1. About the Parallel Intelligence Agency, Gooya News