List Of Secret Police Organizations

Former Soviet Union

• The Presidential Guard in Aleksandr Lukashenkos Belarus
• The Federal Security Service (FSB), formerly the Federal Security Service (FSK), of the Russian Federation, which has been accused of using the tactics of the former KGB.
• The Ministry of State Security in Saparmurat Niyazovs Turkmenistan
• The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and also the local Militsya in Ukraine are thought of as fitting the definition of secret police forces.

Historical

• The Okhranka of Imperial Russia, prior to the Bolshevik Revolution
• The secret police of the Soviet Union went though many names and phases

Europe

• The SRI (Serviciul Roman de Informatii) in Romania, which is considered by some to still use some of the Securitate's methods
• The Special Branch of the British police, which functions as the executive arm of MI5

Historical

• The Sigurimi in communist-ruled Albania
• The StB (Sttn bezpečnost) in communist-ruled Czechoslovakia
• The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) in Nazi Germany
• The Stasi (Ministerium fr Staatssicherheit) in East Germany
• The AVO (Allamvedlmi Osztly), succeeded by the AVH (Allamvedlmi Hatosag), in communist-ruled Hungary before the 1956 revolution
• The OVRA (Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell'Antifascismo) in fascist-ruled Italy
• The UB (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), succeeded by the SB (Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa), in communist-ruled Poland
• The PVDE (Policia de Vigilncia e de Defesa do Estado), PIDE (Polcia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado), and DGS (Direco Geral de Segurana) in Portugal during the Estado Novo
• The Securitate (Departamentul Securitatii Statului) in communist-ruled Romania
• The UDB (Uprava drzavne bezbednosti), succeeded by the SDB (Sluzba drzavne bezbednosti), in communist Yugoslavia under Tito and Slobodan Milosevic. Also the UDBA fits in there somewhere.

Middle East

• VEVAK (Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar) and the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) in modern Iran
• The Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma in current Iraq
• Mossad (Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim) in Israel

Historical

• SAVAK (Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar) in pre-revolutionary Iran under Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
• The Mukhabarat in Iraq under Saddam Hussein

Rest of Asia

• The Ministry of State Security in the People's Republic of China
• KOPKAMTIB (Kommando Operasi Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiba) in Indonesia
• The State Safety and Security Agency, previously the State Security Department and State Security Agency, in North Korea
• The National Security Service in the Maldives
• The MISG (Military Intelligence and Security Group) in the Philippines

Historical

• The KHAD (Khedemat-e Atla't Dawlati) in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan
• The Kempeitai in Imperial Japan
• The KCIA (Korea Central Intelligence Agency), succeeded by the ANSP (Agency for National Security Planning), in South Korea. The ANSP still exists, but is no longer regarded as a secret police force.

Latin America

• The P-2 (Servio Secreto da Polcia Militar) in Brazil.
• ABIN (Agncia Brasileira de Inteligncia) in Brazil.

Historical

• The SERC (Seccion Especial de Repression del Comunismo) in Argentina before Juan Pern
• The DIPA (Divisin de Informacin Politicas Antidemocrticus) in Argentina under Pern and the subsequent military Junta
• The SES (Servicio Especial de Seguridad) in Bolivia
• The DOI-CODI (Departamento de Operaes Internas-Centro de Operaes de Defesa Interna) and SNI (Servio Nacional de Informaes) in Brazil
• The DINA (Direccin Nacional de Inteligencia), succeeded by the CNI (Centro Nacional de Informacin), under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile
• The Polica Judicial in Guatemala under Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia
• The PMA (Polica Militar Ambulate) and Guardia de Hacienda in Guatemala under Julio Csar Mndez Montenegro
• The ESA (Ejrcito Secreto Anti-Comunista) and Centro de Servicios Especiales de la Presidencia in Guatemala
• The DNI (Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones) in Honduras
• The DIPD (Divisin de Investigaciones para la Prevencin de la Delincuencia) in Mexico
• The DGSE (Direccin General de Seguridad del Estado) in Nicaragua
• The Divisin Tchnica de Represin del Comunismo of the DIPC (Departamento de Investigaciones de la Polica) in Paraguay
• The Seguridad del Estado and the Divisin Contra el Terrorismo in Peru
• The ORDEN (Organizacin Democrtica Nacionalista), succeeded by the FDN (Frente Democrtico Nacionalista), in El Salvador
• The Organismo Coordinador de Actividades Anti-Subversivas in Uruguay

Caribbean and North America

• The VSN (Volontaires de la scurit nationale), better known as the Ton Ton Macoute, in Haiti under Franois Duvalier (Papa Doc)
• The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) in the United States (especially under the administration of J. Edgar Hoover)

Africa

• The BMM (Brigade Mixte Mobile) in Cameroon
• The USP in the Central African Republic
• The DEMIAP (Dtection Militaire des Activits Anti-Patrie) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• The DGSE (Direction Gnrale de la Scurit d'Etat) in the Republic of the Congo
• The Presidential Investigations Unit in the Cte d'Ivoire
• The Brigade Spciale de Recherche de la Gendarmerie and the SDS (Service de Documentation et de Scurit) in Djibouti
• The CRID (Central Revolutionary Investigation Department) in Ethiopia
• The NIA (National Intelligence Agency) in the Gambia
• The BNI (Bureau of National Investigations) in Ghana
• The SSS (State Security Service) and Special Bodyguard Unit in Nigeria
• The CIO (Central Intelligence Organization) in Zimbabwe

Historical

• The DISA (Direco de Informao e Segurana de Angola) in MPLA-ruled Angola
• The Centre National d'Etude et de Recherche in Cameroon
• The DDS (Direction de la Documentation et de la Scurit) in Chad under Hissne Habr
• Koevoet in South African-ruled Namibia
• The NSO (Nigerian Security Organisation) in Nigeria under the Buhari regime
• The SCR (Service Central de Renseignements) in Rwanda
• BOSS (Bureau of State Security) in apartheid South Africa
• The Public Safety Unit and the Bureau of State Research in Idi Amin's Uganda

Fictional secret police forces

• The Thought Police from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Section 31 from Star Trek - Federation
• The Tal Shiar from Star Trek - Romulan secret police
• The Obsidian Order from Star Trek - Cardassian secret police
• The Cable Street Particulars from the Discworld - Ankh-Morpork secret police (under Captain Swing)
• The Nightwatch from Babylon 5 - Earth Alliance secret police
• Psi Corps from Babylon 5 - Earth Alliance secret police composed of telepaths, essentially "Thought Police", often working in tandem with the Nightwatch. They possess obvious references to the TV show The Prisoner and the Gestapo, which several characters comment on within the series ("...what are you up to today? Annexing Sudetenland?")
• The Inquisition from Warhammer 40,000 - Imperial secret police similar to the Spanish Inquisition
• The Finger, the secret police of Norsefire, the fascist government of England, in V for Vendetta
• ZEP, the secret police of Taschist Borduria in the Tintin adventures

Related articles

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

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