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This is a list of current secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on their own respective pages. In this list, reputable sources, with relevant quotes, assert that the organizations in this list are secret police.
This is a list of historical secret police organizations. In most cases they are no longer current because the regime that ran them was overthrown or changed, or they changed their names. Few still exist under the same name as legitimate police forces.
Secret police (or political police) [3] are police, intelligence, or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, ideological, or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. [4]
Public Safety Service (PSS) – the successor of the Corellian Security Force, after the Imperial government turns the latter from a regular police force into a secret police. Galactic Alliance Guard (GAG) – the secret police of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances during the Second Galactic Civil War (fate after the war unknown).
A New York resident who prosecutors say operated a "secret police station" in the Chinatown district of Manhattan to aid Beijing's targeting of dissidents, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to ...
Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ; Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire) – Organised crime intelligence. Sous-direction anti-terroriste (SDAT) Ministry of Defence. Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE; Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure) – Foreign intelligence relating to national security.
After a lengthy and secret criminal inquiry, in 2021 the Sheriff’s Department urged the state attorney general to prosecute several oversight officials as well as Lau, then a reporter for The ...
Two men have been arrested on charges that they helped establish a secret police outpost in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government, and more than three dozen officers with China's ...