The Secretary for Public Security was the top position for a law enforcement officer in
Portuguese Macau
Portuguese Macau (officially the Province of Macau until 1976, and then the Autonomous Region of Macau from 1976 to 1999) was a Portuguese colony that existed from the first official Portuguese settlement in 1557 to the end of colonial ru ...
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Organization
The Secretary headed the Secretariat for Public Security branch, which as responsible for the disciplinary services in Macau. The department's name had a slight change in 1999 to be referred to as the
Secretariat for Security.
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Macau Security Force
The Macau Security Force (, ) is Macau's public security body under the Secretariat for Security, responsible for handling government activities ranging from law enforcement to public safety.
History
In 1975, the MSF was created to take the plac ...
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Public Security Police Force
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Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau
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Judiciary Police
The judicial police, judiciary police, or justice police are (depending on both country and legal system) either a branch, separate police agency or type of duty performed by law enforcement structures in a country. The term judiciary police is mo ...
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Unitary Police Service
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Macau Prison
The Correctional Services Bureau (; pt, Direcção dos Serviços Correccionais, DSC) is the agency responsible for maintaining inmates in Macau, China. It is under the administration of the Secretariat for Security.
History
On 1 January 20 ...
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Fire Services Bureau
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Academy for Public Security Forces
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Customs of Macau SAR
List of Secretariats
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Jorge Noronha e Silveira 1996-1999 as Deputy Secretary for Justice Affairs of Macau; law professor and now Deputy Ombudsman of Justice
* Manuel Morge - pre-1999
Other key officials include:
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Cheong Kuoc Vá - Chief of the Public Security Police Force
References
External links
Casa de Macau- references to former Portuguese secretaries
{{Government of Portugese Macau
Government departments and agencies of Macau
Members of the Executive Council of Macau
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...
Political office-holders in Macau
Positions of the Macau Government
1999 disestablishments in Macau