The Dirección General de Policía (DIGEPOL) was a

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n police agency. DIGEPOL was created after the transition to democracy following the 1958 fall of the dictatorship of

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, replacing in part the former '' Seguridad Nacional''.

History

In 1965, after being detained by DIGEPOL days before, communist professor was killed and found in a beach in

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. President

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declared that the government would lend all its resources to punish the culprits. DIGEPOL was replaced in 1969 by the

National Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services DISIP (General Sectoral Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services) was an intelligence and counter-intelligence agency inside and outside of Venezuela between 1969 and 2009 when SEBIN was created by former President Hugo Chávez. DISIP wa ...

(DISIP), under the control of the Interior Ministry.Mark Ungar (2002),
Elusive reform: democracy and the rule of law in Latin America
', p99

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Direccion General de Policia Defunct law enforcement agencies of Venezuela Defunct Venezuelan intelligence agencies