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

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)