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This is a
list of current secret policeSecret police are a police agency which operates in secrecy to maintain national security against internal threats to the state....
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.
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Domestic Intelligence Agency" is a common euphemism for organizations with broadly similar goals and methods.
BelarusBelarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel , Mahilyow and Vitebsk...
- Presidential Guard
The Belarusian Presidential Guard is a law-enforcement body that was designed to protect the President of Belarus and other high ranking officials and officers. However, the United States State Department stated that the Presidential Guard is a secret police force under the control of President...
- State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus
People's Republic of ChinaThe People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population...
- Guojia Anquan Bu (Guoanbu) (Ministry of State Security)
Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country located in Central Africa, with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest country in Africa...
Republic of the CongoThe Republic of the Congo , also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda, and the Gulf of Guinea.The region was dominated...
- Direction Générale de la Sécurité d'État (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security)
DjiboutiDjibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. On the other side of the Red Sea, on...
- Brigade Spéciale de Recherche de la Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Special Research Brigade)
- Service de Documentation et de Sécurité (SDS) (Documentation and Security Service)
GhanaThe Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa which borders Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
- Bureau of National Investigations
The Bureau of National Investigations is the internal intelligence agency of Ghana. Among the duties of the BNI are dealing with organized crime and providing intelligence to counter threats to national security.The BNI is legally a creature of The Security and Intelligence Agencies Act 1996...
(BNI)
- SPD (Ghana) State Police Department (SPD)
IranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanid period and came into international use from 1935, before which the country was known internationally as Persia...
- Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar
The Islamic Republic Of Iran Intelligence Ministry is the primary intelligence agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is also known as VEVAK or alternatively MOIS. It is an important part of the Iranian government's security apparatus, and is well funded and equipped...
(VEVAK) (Ministry of Intelligence and Security)
- Sepah Pasdaran Enghaleb Islam-e
The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution is a branch of Iran's military, founded after the Iranian revolution. Sepāh is thought to number as many as 120,000 with its own small naval and air units...
(Sepah or Pasdaran) (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps)
- Parallel Intelligence Agency
An intelligence agency within the Islamic Republic of Iran with strong ties to Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the security apparatus within the judiciary....
(Sazeman Ettela'at Movazi) 1
Russian FederationRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
- Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation is the main domestic security service of the Russian Federation and the main successor agency of the Soviet-era Cheka, NKVD and KGB.The FSB is involved in counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance...
(FSB) (Federal Security Service)
See also
- Police
A police service is a public force empowered to enforce the law and provide security through the legitimized use of force.The term is most commonly associated with police services of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of...
- Secret police
Secret police are a police agency which operates in secrecy to maintain national security against internal threats to the state....
- Secret service
Because of both the secrecy of secret services and the controversial nature of the issues involved, there is some difficulty in separating the definitions of secret service, secret police, intelligence agency etc....
- Intelligence agency
An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to information gathering for purposes of national security and defense. Means of information gathering may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public...
- List of intelligence agencies
- List of law enforcement agencies
- List of protective services
- Star Chamber
The Star Chamber was an English court of law that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster until 1641. It was made up of Privy Counsellors, as well as common-law judges, and supplemented the activities of the common-law and equity courts in both civil and criminal matters...
- League of the Holy Court
The Vehmic courts, Vehmgericht, holy vehme, or just the Vehm, also spelt Feme, are names given to a tribunal system of Westphalia active during the later Middle Ages, based on a fraternal organisation of lay judges called francs-juges or Freischöffen . The principal seat of the courts was in...
(Vehmgericht)
- Inquisition
The term Inquisition can apply to any one of several institutions charged with trying and convicting heretics within the Catholic Church...
- Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people and often in a surreptitious manner...
- Mass surveillance
Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof.Modern governments today commonly perform mass surveillance of their citizens, explaining that they believe that it is necessary to protect them from dangerous groups such as terrorists,...
- Menwith Hill
- List of historical secret police organizations
- List of fictional secret police organizations