History

In the early days of the Republic of El Salvador, the Civil Guard was created in 1867, which then gave way to the National Guard

National Guard (El Salvador)

The Guardia Nacional of El Salvador was the Salvadoran gendarmerie. It was founded in 1912 by President Dr. Manuel Enrique Araujo. As agreed in the Chapultepec Peace Accords, it was disbanded on 16 January 1992...

 in 1912.

At the time of the end of the Salvadoran Civil War law enforcement in El Salvador included the National Police (Policia Nacional), the Treasury Police, and the National Guard

National Guard (El Salvador)

The Guardia Nacional of El Salvador was the Salvadoran gendarmerie. It was founded in 1912 by President Dr. Manuel Enrique Araujo. As agreed in the Chapultepec Peace Accords, it was disbanded on 16 January 1992...

. All were part of the Armed Forces of El Salvador. According to the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador

Commission on the Truth for El Salvador

The Truth Commission for El Salvador was a truth commission established by the United Nations to investigate and report on human rights abuses during the civil war in El Salvador ....

, the police agencies perpetrated many human rights abuses during the civil war. Establishing civilian control of law enforcement agencies was a central tenet of the peace accords

Chapultepec Peace Accords

The Chapultepec Peace Accords brought peace to El Salvador in 1992 after more than a decade of wrenching civil war.The treaty was negotiated by representatives of the Salvadoran government, the rebel movement FMLN, and political parties, with observers from the Roman Catholic Church and United...

 which ended the war.

As part of the peace process, the National Guard and the Treasury Police were supposed to be abolished immediately. It took some time, but eventually was accomplished.

Historical secret police organizations

• Organización Democrática Nacionalista
  Organización Democrática Nacionalista
  ORDEN, or Organización Democrática Nacionalista was a Salvadoran paramilitary organization founded under the military rule of Julio Adalberto Rivera, headed by José Alberto Medrano, and supported initially by the Green Berets...
  
   (ORDEN) (Nationalist Democratic Organization)
• Frente Democrático Nacionalista (FDN) (Nationalist Democratic Front)

Academy

The main law enforcement academy of El Salvador is the National Academy of Public Security (Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

:Academia Nacional de Seguridad Publica:ASNP).