Secret police

A secret police force is a police organization that operates in secret to carry out its functions. It should not be confused with the plainclothes police, which is ordinary police who wear civilian clothes in the performance of their duties. The secret police only come in cases of emergency such as robberies, drug trafficking and even possession of illegal weapons.

List of secret police forces

Fascist, Nationalist and National Socialist secret police forces

• Gestapo in Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
• OVRA in the Kingdom of Italy (1927-1945)
• The Tokkō in the Empire of Japan (1910-1945)
• The Kempeitai in the Empire of Japan (1881-1945)
• PIDE in the New State (Portugal) (1954-1969)
• The Directorate-General for Security in Portugal (1969-1974)
• BPS in Francoist Spain (1941-1978)
• The National Security Directorate (DSN) in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1946-1958)

Secret police forces in other countries including liberal democracies and monarchical regimes

• Ojrana in tsarist Russia. (1881-1917)
• KGB in Belarus (1991-presentation)
• The FBI in the United States (1908-presentation)
• MI5 in United Kingdom (1909-Update)
• FSB in Russia (1995-presentation)
• The Superior Police Corps in Spain. (1978-1986)
• DCRI in France (1982-current)
• BfV in Germany (1950-current)
• The AISI in Italy (2007-current)
• NIS in South Korea (1961-current)

Secret Police Forces in Communist, Socialist and Marxist Countries

• Czech in the Soviet Union under Lenin (1917-1922)
• OGPU in the Soviet Union under Alekséi Rýkov (1923-1934)
• NKVD in the Soviet Union under Iosif Stalin (1934-1954)
• KGB in the Soviet Union (1954-1991)
• The AVH in the People ' s Republic of Hungary (1948-1956)
• The Securitate in the Socialist Republic of Romania (1948-1989)
• Sigurimi in the People ' s Republic of Albania (1943-1991)
• Stasi in the German Democratic Republic (1950-1990)
• La Darzhavna Sigurnost en la República Popular de Bulgaria (1944-1989)
• StB in the Czechoslovakia Socialist Republic (1945-1990)
• La Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (UB) and later Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB) in the People ' s Republic of Poland (1956-1990)
• OZNA (1944-1952) and UDBA (1946-1991) in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• The Department of State Security in the Democratic People ' s Republic of Korea (1973-current)
• Office 610 in the People ' s Republic of China (1999-2018)
• The Ministry of State Security, intelligence agency and secret police of the People ' s Republic of China (1983-presentation)
• The SEBIN, intelligence agency and secret police of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (1999-current)
• La Santebal en la Kampuchea Democratica (1971-1979)

Secret Police Forces in the Middle East

• SAVAK in Prerevolutionary Iran (1957-1979)
• VEVAK in current Iran (1984-current)
• The Mujabarat in Iraq under Saddam Hussein (1973-2003)
• The Mosad intelligence service of Israel (1949-current)

Secret Police Forces in Latin America

• La Mazorca at the service of Juan Manuel de Rosas, governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. (1829-1832, 1835-1852)
• La SIDE (1946-2015) under control of the dictatorship since 1976 with Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina. It also interacted with the military intelligence services of Army, Air Force, Navy, Federal Police, Provincials and Task Force. This regulation only against the political enemy was manifested before and during the Falklands War. In February 2015 a bill was passed to dissolve the agency and create, instead, the Federal Intelligence Agency based on the project sent by President Cristina Fernández.
• DINA under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile (1973-1977)
• CNI of the same government, Chile (1977-1990)
• DAS in Colombia (1960-2011) and F2 (1949-1995).
• The DFS, which led political repression in Mexico since 1947 and the Mexican "dirty war" in the 1960s and 1970s.(1947-1985)
• The National Security Office (OSN) was the secret police of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• SIN, during the dictatorial regime of Alberto Fujimori in Peru. (1990-2000)
• In Venezuela, the National Security Directorate (1949-1959), the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (1969-2009) and the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (2009-current), is the current secret police in Venezuela.

Secret Police Forces in the Caribbean

• Tonton Macoute in Haiti of François Duvalier, better known as Pope Doc (1959-1986)
• Military Intelligence Service. Organization at the service of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. (1957-1962)
• The Intelligence Directorate, popularly known as “G2”, a secret police officer created in Cuba at the triumph of the Revolution. (1961 - present)