This is a list of current secret police

Secret police

Secret police are a police agency which operates in secrecy and beyond the law to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian political regime....

 organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on their own respective pages.

The organizations in this list have been alleged to have the characteristics of a secret police organization: operating without judicial oversight and other accountability mechanisms. In some cases, the status of the organization as a "secret police" organization may be debated.

"Domestic Intelligence Agency" is a common euphemism for organizations with broadly similar goals and methods.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

• National Directorate of Security (NDS, ریاست امنیت ملی, also referred to as Amniyat or Amaniyat)

Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

• Presidential Guard
  Presidential Guard (Belarus)
  The Belarusian Presidential Guard or officially the Presidential Security Service is a law-enforcement body that was designed to protect the President of Belarus and other high ranking officials and officers.However, the United States State Department stated that the Presidential Guard is a secret...
  
  
• State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus

People's Republic of China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

• Ministry of State Security (MSS) (Ministry of State Security)

Republic of the Congo

Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo , sometimes known locally as Congo-Brazzaville, is a state in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda, and the Gulf of Guinea.The region was dominated by...

• Direction Générale de la Sécurité d'État (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security)

Djibouti

Djibouti

Djibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti , is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east...

• Brigade Spéciale de Recherche de la Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Special Research Brigade)
• Service de Documentation et de Sécurité (SDS) (Documentation and Security Service)

Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

• Bureau of National Investigations
  Bureau of National Investigations
  The Bureau of National Investigations is the internal intelligence agency of Ghana. It is an integral part of the National Security Council which oversees matters of the security of Ghana both internal and external.The BNI has investigative jurisdiction over a wide range of criminal offenses...
  
   (BNI)
• SPD (Ghana) State Police Department (SPD)

Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

• Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar
  Ministry of Intelligence (Iran)
  The Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the secret police and primary intelligence agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
  
   (VEVAK) (Ministry of Intelligence and Security)
• Sepah Pasdaran Enghaleb Islam-e
  Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
  The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution , often called Revolutionary Guards, is a branch of Iran's military, founded after the Iranian revolution...
  
   (Sepah or Pasdaran) (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps)
• Parallel Intelligence Agency
  Parallel Intelligence Agency
  Parallel Intelligence Agency is an intelligence agency within the Islamic Republic of Iran with strong ties to Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the security apparatus within the judiciary....
  
   (Sazeman Ettela'at Movazi) ¹

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

• Criminal Investigation Department
  Criminal Investigation Department (Sri Lanka)
  The Criminal Investigation Department of the Sri Lanka Police Service is responsible for carrying out investigations throughout the island into serious crimes, including murders, rape and organized crime cases of a very serious nature that require special skills and complex detection...
  
  
• Terrorist Investigation Department

Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

• Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı, National Intelligence Organization of the Republic of Turkey

See also

• Police
  Police
  The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
  
  
• Secret police
  Secret police
  Secret police are a police agency which operates in secrecy and beyond the law to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian political regime....
  
  
• Secret service
  Secret service
  A secret service describes a government agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data. The tasks and powers of a secret service can vary greatly from one country to another. For instance, a country may establish a secret service which has some...
  
  
• Intelligence agency
  Intelligence agency
  An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to information gathering for purposes of national security and defence. Means of information gathering may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public...
  
  
• Star Chamber
  Star Chamber
  The Star Chamber was an English court of law that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster until 1641. It was made up of Privy Counsellors, as well as common-law judges and supplemented the activities of the common-law and equity courts in both civil and criminal matters...
  
  
• League of the Holy Court
  League of the Holy Court
  The Vehmic courts, Vehmgericht, holy vehme, or just the Vehm, also spelt Feme, are names given to a "proto-vigilante" tribunal system of Westphalia active during the later Middle Ages, based on a fraternal organisation of lay judges called “free judges” . The principal seat of the courts was in...
  
   (Vehmgericht)
• Inquisition
  Inquisition
  The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis , was the "fight against heretics" by several institutions within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the 12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy...
  
  
• Surveillance
  Surveillance
  Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
  
  
• Mass surveillance
  Mass surveillance
  Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof.Modern governments today commonly perform mass surveillance of their citizens, explaining that they believe that it is necessary to protect them from dangerous groups such as terrorists,...
  
  

Lists:

• List of intelligence agencies
• List of law enforcement agencies
• List of protective services
• List of historical secret police organizations
• List of fictional secret police organizations