Law enforcement in Honduras
Law enforcement in Honduras is split among three law enforcement organisations.
- National Police of Honduras
Current branches
- Transit Police (Honduras) (Policia de Transito), a police force in charge of automobile transportation. They take care of car crashes, parking violations and other infringements.
- DGIC (Dirección General de Investigaciones Criminalisticas), the agency that takes care of forensics and drug enforcement.
- Cobras (Honduras), armed conflict people.
Past law enforcement bodies
Civil Guard, now abolished
- Civil Guard in Honduras is a militarized police which was commanded directly by president Ramon Villeda Morales before his death, rather than the chief of the armed forces created in 1957.
Historical secret police organizations
- Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI) (National Investigation Department)
See also
- Crime in Honduras
References
Sources
- World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto. by Taylor & Francis. 2004,
- World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, 2nd. edition, Gale., 2006
- Sullivan, Larry E. et al. Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.
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Honduras articles
- Pre-Columbian history
- Spanish conquest of Honduras
- Captaincy General (Guatemalan)
- Mexican rule
- Federal Republic of Central America
- History to 1838
- 1838–1932
- 1932–1982
- since 1982
- 2009 constitutional crisis
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