List of secret police organizations

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This is a list of current secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on those 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.

Contents

[edit] Agencies by country

[edit] Belarus

[edit] Cameroon

[edit] Central African Republic

[edit] Chad

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

[edit] Republic of China (Taiwan)

[edit] People's Republic of China

[edit] Democratic Republic of the Congo

[edit] Republic of the Congo

  • Direction Générale de la Sécurité d'État (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security)

[edit] Côte d'Ivoire

  • Presidential Investigations Unit

[edit] Djibouti

  • Brigade Spéciale de Recherche de la Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Special Research Brigade)
  • Service de Documentation et de Sécurité (SDS) (Documentation and Security Service)

[edit] Ethiopia

  • Central Revolutionary Investigation Department (CRID)

[edit] Gambia

  • National Intelligence Agency (NIA)

[edit] Germany

[edit] Ghana

[edit] Iran

[edit] Iraq

[edit] Maldives

[edit] Nigeria

[edit] North Korea

  • State Safety and Security Agency

[edit] Russian Federation

[edit] Turkmenistan

  • Ministry of State Security


[edit] Uganda

[edit] Ukraine

[edit] Venezuela

[edit] Zimbabwe

[edit] See also