Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal (''National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence'', DNIC) is an

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, part of the National Intelligence System. It used to depend on the Secretaría de Seguridad Interior (''Secretariat of Interior Security''), which itself depends on the Ministry of Interior; currently, the DNIC depends from the National Ministry of Security. The DNIC is not a division of the

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(SIDE), which has its own Directorate of Interior Intelligence.

Creation

The Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal (''National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence'', DNIC) was initially created by the 199
Interior Security Law 24.059
as Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Interior (''National Directorate of Interior Intelligence'', DNII). In December 2001, as the ne

passed, the National Intelligence System was created, and Article 47/48 renamed the old DNII to its current name. At the time of the writing of the 199
Interior Security Law 24.059
the National Aeronautical Police (''Policía Aeronáutica Nacional'', PNA) was controlled by the

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, therefore, the handling of its information was done by military intelligence. In 2005, after the Southern Winds Narcobags Scandal,

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dissolved the PNA, and created a civil organism similar to the

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and the Naval Prefecture, the Airport Security Police (''Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria'', PSA). DNIC also handles intelligence from the mentioned organism that has inherited from the military-controlled PNA.

Function

Its mission, as detailed on Article 16 of the 199
Interior Security Law 24.059
is to be a federal agency within the

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to strategically coordinate and direct the functions and operations of the

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of the

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, the

, and the Naval Prefecture.

External links

Intelligence Reform Law 25.520

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Creation

Function

See also

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