This is a list of historical secret police organizations. In most cases they are no longer current because the regime that ran them was overthrown or changed, or they changed their names. Few still exist under the same name as legitimate police forces.
Agencies by country
- Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini (JRB) (National Defense Force) was a Bangladeshi para-military force formed in 1972 by the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman government.
Initially formed to curb the insurgency and maintain law and order the force became involved in numerous charges of human rights abuse including political killings, shooting by death squads, and rape. It was seen as the armed wing of the ruling Awami League and it swore an oath of loyalty to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Force was disbanded and merged with the Bangladesh Army following the August 15th 1975 coup which dislodged Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from power.
- General Directorate for State Security (French: Direction Générale de la Sécurité de l'ÃÂtat)
- Ravnateljstvo za javni red i sigurnost (RAVSIGUR) (Directorate for Public Order and Security) / Glavno ravnateljstvo za javni red i sigurnost (GRAVSIGUR) (General Directorate for Public Order and Security)
- UstaÃ
¡ka nadzorna sluÃ
¾ba (UNS) (UstaÃ
¡e Surveillance Service)
Greece
- Komando Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban (Kopkamtib) (Security and Order Restoration Command), active during the regime of Suharto
National Security Bureau
- Social and Political Research Service (Sá» Nghiên Cứu Xã Há»Âi ChÃÂnh Trá»Â) (during the regime of Ngô ÃÂình Diá»Âm)
- Centre Nationale de Documentation (CND) (National Documentation Center) â 1969-early 1980s
- Agence Nationale de Documentation (AND) (National Documentation Agency) â Early 1980s â August 1990
- Service National d'Intelligence et de Protection (SNIP) (National Service for Intelligence and Protection) (August 1990 â May 1997)
See also
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