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Directorate General for National Security may refer to: * Algerian police * Sûreté Nationale (Morocco) * National Security Service (Greece) See also *''Sûreté'', the organizational title of a civil police force in many French-speaking countries or regions *Directorate-General for External Security, France *General Directorate for Internal Security, France *General Directorate of General Security, Lebanon *National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan *Directorate of General Security, Iraq *Directorate General for Public Security, Austria *General Directorate of Security (Portugal) *Main Directorate of State Security The Main Directorate of State Security (, Главное управление государственной безопасности, ГУГБ, GUGB) was the name of the Soviet Union, Soviet Union's most important security body within the People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algerian Police
The Directorate General for National Security (DGSN; , ) is the national civil police force of Algeria. It polices Algeria's larger cities and urban areas. The Sûreté is part of the Ministry of Interior (Algeria), Ministry of Interior and is charged with maintaining law and order, protecting life and property, investigating crimes, and apprehending offenders. It also performs other routine police functions, including traffic control. Organization The DGNS is headed by a Director General and in 2007 consisted of a force of 130,000, including specialist operational and investigative branches and supporting services. Directors The judicial police branch is responsible for criminal investigations, working in close coordination with the Office of the Public Prosecutor in the Ministry of Justice. Police are assigned to the capitals of the wilayat are under the nominal control of the individual governors. A special riot police force is equipped with modern riot-control gear. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sûreté Nationale (Morocco)
The General Directorate for National Security (; ; , DGSN) is the national Police, police force of the Kingdom of Morocco. The DGSN is tasked with upholding the law and Public-order crime, public order. It was founded on 16 May 1956 by King Mohammed V of Morocco, Mohammed V. It works alongside the ''Gendarmerie Royale'' and the ''Forces Auxiliaires''. In 2007, the Sûreté Nationale had approximately 46,000 personnel. A decade later, in 2017, the number of personnel had increased to 70,000. As of 2004, the Sûreté Nationale operated the following specialist divisions: * The Border Police: responsible for border control and surveillance * Mobile Intervention Corps: tasked with rapid intervention in major emergencies * National Brigade: primarily responsible for investigation of serious crimes, including terrorism, organized and white-collar crime. History Pre-colonial Before the 20th century, a regionalized Shurta (police) enforced Sharia, Sharia law and ensured security a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Security Service (Greece)
The National Security Service or YPEA (), originally called General Directorate of National Security or GDEA (Γενική Διεύθυνσις Εθνικής Ασφαλείας, ΓΔΕΑ) was a Greek intelligence and domestic security service, active between 1958 and 1984. Initially it was under the control of the Interior Ministry (Greece), Interior Ministry, and later under the control of the Ministry of Public Order (Greece), Ministry of Public Order. YPEA was the agency responsible for keeping dossiers on the political beliefs of Greek citizens, and as such it was widely feared and despised among the general population. It was founded in 1958, after the left-wing United Democratic Left managed to win 25% of the popular vote, only nine years after the end of the Greek Civil War. The man responsible for creating YPEA, Evangelos Kalantzis, was a notorious Deputy Interior Minister who had held important positions in the Metaxas dictatorship. Throughout its existence, the agency wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sûreté
(, but often translated to 'safety' or 'security') is, in some French-speaking countries or regions, the organizational title of a civil police force. Algeria The Directorate General for National Security is known in French as the Sûreté Nationale. Belgium The VSSE is known by its French name, Sûreté de l'État. Canada The provincial police force of Québec is called the Sûreté du Québec. France The French National Police was formerly called Sûreté générale and then Sûreté nationale. History The Sûreté nationale, or Sûreté, began as the criminal investigative bureau of the (Paris Police Prefecture) and did not function as the national command and control organization until much later, by which time it no longer had any detectives on its staff. Both the Paris Police Prefecture's Brigade Criminelle and the Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire trace their history directly to the Sûreté. The French Sûreté is considered a pioneer of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directorate-General For External Security
The Directorate-General for External Security (, , DGSE) is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGSE safeguards French national security through intelligence gathering and conducting paramilitary and counterintelligence operations abroad, as well as economic espionage. The service is currently headquartered in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, but construction has begun on a new headquarters at Fort Neuf de Vincennes, in Vincennes, on the eastern edge of Paris. The DGSE operates under the direction of the French Ministry of Armed Forces and works alongside its domestic counterpart, the DGSI (General Directorate for Internal Security). As with most other intelligence agencies, details of its operations and organization are classified and not made public. The DGSE follows a system which it refers to as LEDA. L stands for loyalty (loyauté), E stands for elevated standards (exigence) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Directorate For Internal Security
The General Directorate for Internal Security (, , DGSI; also known as the Directorate-General for Internal Security in English) is a French security agency. It is charged with counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations and social phenomena. The agency was created in 2008 under the name Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (, DCRI), merging the '' Direction centrale des renseignements généraux'' (RG) and the '' Direction de la surveillance du territoire'' (DST) of the National Police. It acquired its current name in 2014, with a small structural shift: contrary to the DCRI which was part of the National Police, the DGSI reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior. The DGSI is headed by General Director . The agency is informally known as the "RG", a nickname formerly used for the '''' which merged into it. The DGSI performs among the others the following tasks: prevents and halts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Directorate Of General Security
The General Security Directorate () is a Lebanon, Lebanese intelligence agency founded on July 21, 1921 and originally known as the "first bureau". On June 12, 1959, Decree-Law No. 139, in force from that date, was published. Under this decree the General Security becomes a branch depending on the power of the minister of interior and headed by a director general, as president. On December 16, 1959, Organizational Decree No. 2873 was published. It establishes a regional organization of general security and creates more branch, regional departments, border, maritime and air. Its full name is "General Directorate of General Security" ( (DGSG), ). Its primary function is to collect and gather intelligence, and to inform the Lebanese government to ensure national security and public order throughout the territory of the Republic of Lebanon. General Security is also responsible for monitoring resident aliens on Lebanese soil by issuing them visas and entry permits into Lebanese terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Directorate Of Security
The National Directorate of Security (NDS; ; ) was the national intelligence agency, intelligence and security agency, security service of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The headquarters of the NDS was in Kabul, and it had field offices and training facilities in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. The NDS was part of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). The NDS was mandated to investigate cases and incidents that affect Afghan national security and to fight terrorism. According to the ''Law on Crimes against Internal and External Security of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan'', the agency was tasked to investigate cases involving "national treason, espionage, terrorism, sabotage, propaganda against the Government, war propaganda, assisting enemy forces, and organised activity against internal and external security". As the primary intelligence organ of Afghanistan, the NDS shared information about regional terrorism and major crimes with the Afghan Cabinet of Afgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directorate Of General Security
The Directorate of General Security (DGS) () also known as Internal State Security was a domestic Iraqi Intelligence Service, Iraqi intelligence agency.Hiltermann, Joost. ''Bureaucracy of Repression: The Iraqi Government in Its Own Words''. Human Rights Watch, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2019. History The DGS was founded in 1921 during the List of Kings of Iraq, Iraqi monarchy, and it operated under the Ministry of Interior (Iraq), Ministry of the Interior until 1968. Its police and military officers were charged with the "general security of the state and its property", which included the use of torture and monitoring of dissent. It was trained by Egypt’s State Security Investigations Service, State Security in the 1960’s.Hiro, Dilip. ''Neighbors, Not Friends: Iraq and Iran After the Gulf Wars''. Routledge, 2004. p. 54–55 Kzar coup Nadhim Kzar was named director by Saddam Hussein in 1969 after the DGS had deteriorated under 10 years (1958–1968) of army rule.al-Khalil, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directorate General For Public Security
The Directorate General for Public Security (, "GD" or "GDföS") is the governing body of general law enforcement in Austria and a division of the Ministry of the Interior. It oversees the # Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service (DSN), # Criminal Intelligence Service Austria (BK), # Directorate for Special Units/Special Intervention Unit Cobra (DSE), # Directorate Organisation, Resources and Crisis Management GD (ORK), # Federal Police Directorate (BPD). The Directorate General is headquartered in the Palais Modena, Vienna. History The Directorate General was first established in 1930 as a division of the Chancellery. After the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, Heinrich Himmler ordered the organization's dissolution. The Directorate General was restored following the end of Nazi rule, but did not gain back control of most police forces until the Transition of Authorities Act 1945, when the authorities, offices and other institutions of the German Reich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Directorate Of Security (Portugal)
The General Directorate of Security (; DGS) was a Portuguese criminal police body active between 1969 and 1974, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. Although their duties included, in addition to state security, the supervision of foreigners, border control, and the fight against illegal trafficking of migrants, historically the DGS was essentially a secret police responsible for repression, without judicial control, of all forms of political opposition to the Estado Novo. The DGS was created in 1969 to succeed to the International and State Defense Police (PIDE), by Decree-Law no. 49 401, of November 24, 1969, of the government of Marcello Caetano.Darren Palmer, Michael M. Berlin, Dilip K. Das (2012); Global Environment of Policing', page. 88 It was disbanded in the continent and islands in 1974, following the Revolution of April 25 that ended the Estado Novo, by Decree-Law no. 171/74 of April 25. In overseas territories it continued to exist until 1975, unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
