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In North American English, a Law enforcement agency (LEA) is an organisation that enforces the law. Outside North America, such organisations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police, others have other names (e.g. sherriff's department; investigative...
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| x Służba Bezpieczeństwa |
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Secret police |
Służba Bezpieczeństwa Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych (Polish pronunciation: [swuʐba bɛspʲetʂɛɲstfa miɲistɛrstfa spraf vevnɛ̃tʂnɨx]) (Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), or just SB, was the internal intelligence agency and secret...
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| x Gestapo |
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Secret police |
The Gestapo (help·info) (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei: "Secret State Police") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning in April 1934, it was under the overall administration of the Schutzstaffel under Heinrich Himmler in...
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| x Okhranka |
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Secret police |
The Okhrana, or Department for Defense of Public Security and Order (Russian: Отделение по Охранению Общественной Безопасности и Порядка), usually called the Okhranka in Russia, was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the...
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| x Lithuanian Security Police | Secret police |
The Lithuanian Security Police, also referred to as Saugumas (Lithuanian: Saugumo policija), was a Lithuanian Nazi collaborationist police force that operated from 1941 to 1944. It had a staff of approximately 400 people, 250 of them in Kaunas and...
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| x Prussian Secret Police | Secret police |
The Prussian Secret Police (German: Preußische Geheimpolizei) was the state police agency of the German state of Prussia in the 19th century and early 20th century.
In 1851 Police Union of German States was set up by the police forces of Austria,...
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| x Philippine National Police |
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National law enforcement agency |
The Philippine National Police (PNP) (Filipino: Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas) is the national police force of the Republic of the Philippines. It is both a national and a local police force in that it provides all law enforcement services...
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| x National Institute of Justice |
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National law enforcement agency |
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice. NIJ, along with the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Juvenile...
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| x Sri Lanka Police Service |
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National law enforcement agency |
The Sri Lanka Police Service (commonly known to as the Sri Lanka Police) is the civilian national police force of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The police force has a manpower of approximately 60,000. It is responsible for...
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| x Law enforcement in Afghanistan | National law enforcement agency |
Plans call for Afghanistan to have a national police force of up to 80,000. Although the police officially are responsible for maintaining civil order, in some cases local and regional military commanders continue to exercise control in the...
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| x Indonesian National Police |
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National law enforcement agency |
The Indonesian National Police (Indonesian: Kepolisian Negara Republik Indonesia) is the official police force for Indonesia. It had formerly been a part of the Tentara Nasional Indonesia since its independence from the Dutch. The police were...
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| x Mutaween | Religious police |
The Mutaween (Arabic: مطوعين muṭawiʿiyn; variant English spellings: mutawwain, muttawa, mutawallees, mutawa’ah, mutawi’, mutawwa') means "subjugated people" in Arabic is commonly used as a casual term for the government-authorized or -recognized...
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| x Military Police Corps |
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Military police |
The Military Police Corps is the uniformed law enforcement branch of the United States Army. Investigations are conducted by Military Police Investigators or the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC), both of which report to...
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| x Royal Military Police |
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Military police |
The Royal Military Police (RMP) is the corps of the British Army responsible for the policing of service personnel and providing a military police presence on service property, operations and exercises. Its members are generally known as Redcaps...
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| x Romanian Military Police |
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Military police |
The Romanian Military Police (Poliţia Militară) is the military police of the Romanian Armed Forces. It was formed in 1990, immediately after the 1989 Romanian Revolution, although the Romanian Gendarmerie performed military police duties between...
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| x Greek Military Police | Military police |
The Greek Military Police (Greek: Ελληνική Στρατιωτική Αστυνομία (ΕΣΑ), generally known in English by the acronym ESA (Ellinikí Stratiotikí Astinomía) was the main security (secret police) and intelligence organisation during the Greek military...
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| x 372nd Military Police | Military police |
The 372nd Military Police Company is a United States reserve Military Police unit based out of Cresaptown, Maryland. Eleven former members of this unit were charged and found guilty in the Abu Ghraib scandal. Another member of the Company, Joseph...
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| x Israeli Military Police |
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Military police |
The Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (Hebrew: חֵיל הַמִּשְׁטָרָה הַצְּבָאִית, Heil HaMishtara HaTzva'it) is the Israeli military police and provost. The military police serves the Manpower Directorate during peace time, and the...
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| x Canadian Forces Military Police |
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Military police |
The Canadian Forces Military Police provide military police services to the Canadian Forces.
Canadian Military Police are unusual in that they are classified as Peace Officers in the Criminal Code of Canada, which gives them the same powers as...
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| x Republic of China Military Police |
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Military police |
The Republic of China Military Police (traditional Chinese: 中華民國憲兵; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó Xiànbīng) is a military police body under the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China (ROC). Unlike military police in many other countries,...
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| x Royal Australian Corps of Military Police |
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The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police is a corps within the Australian Army. Previously known as the Australian Army Provost Corps, it was formed on 3 April 1916 as the ANZAC Provost Corps. It is responsible for battlefield traffic control,...
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| x Policía Federal Argentina |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Policía Federal Argentina (PFA; in English Argentine Federal Police) is a police force of the Argentine federal government. The PFA has detachments throughout the country, but its main responsibilty is policing the 3 million population of the...
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| x Argentine National Gendarmerie |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Argentine National Gendarmerie (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina; GNA) is the gendarmerie and corps of border guards of Argentina.
The Argentine National Gendarmerie has a strength of 12,000.
The Gendarmerie is primarily a frontier guard force but...
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| x Argentine Naval Prefecture |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Argentine Naval Prefecture, in Spanish Prefectura Naval Argentina or PNA, is a service of the Argentine Interior Ministry charged with protecting the country's rivers and maritime territory. It therefore fulfills the functions of other countries...
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| x Australian Federal Police |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the federal police agency of the Commonwealth of Australia. Although the AFP was created by the amalgamation in 1979 of three Commonwealth law enforcement agencies, it traces its history from Commonwealth law...
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| x Australian Competition and Consumer Commission |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is an independent authority of the government of Australia. It was established in 1995 with the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission (TPC) and the Prices Surveillance...
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| x Australian Crime Commission | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) was established when the Australian Crime Commission Act came into effect on 1 January 2003.
It is an amalgamtion of the former National Crime Authority, the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence and the...
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| x Australian Human Rights Commission | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Human Rights Commission (previously the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission) is a national independent statutory body of the Australian Government. It has the responsibility for investigating alleged infringements under...
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| x Australian Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (previously the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations and Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations) is an Australian Government statutory office appointed by the Minister for Families,...
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| x Australian Protective Service |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Protective Service (APS) was an Australian Commonwealth (Federal) agency which existed between 1984 and 2004. The APS was created by the separation of the Protective Service component of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) into a new...
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| x Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is a statutory authority, and the prudential regulator of the Australian financial services industry.
APRA oversees banks, credit unions, building societies, friendly societies, general insurance...
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| x Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) is the Australian government agency responsible for enforcing Australian quarantine laws. AQIS forms part of the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
AQIS’s...
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| x Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent Australian government body that acts as Australia's corporate regulator. ASIC's role is to enforce and regulate company and financial services laws to protect Australian...
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| x Australian Taxation Office |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is the principal revenue collection agency for the Australian Government, in charge of administering the Australian taxation system. The Australian Taxation Office is not a legal entity. The Tax Office is within...
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| x Federal Criminal Police Office | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Federal Criminal Police Office (German: Bundeskriminalamt, .BK, literally "Federal Criminal Office") was created in Austria as a federal police force to effectively combat crime nationwide and to perform international police cooperation...
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| x Federal Police |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Federal Police (German: Bundespolizei) is the law enforcement agency of Austria. The official name of the Federal Police is 'Bundespolizei', however it is only used in formal situations. The Austrian Federal Police were formed in July of 2005 as...
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| x Flugpolizei |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Flugpolizei (English: Air Police) are a unit of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Austria.
The Flugpolizei coordinate air operations in the support of the Polizei in criminal matters, in connection with major events and to assist with...
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| x Federal Police | Federal law enforcement agency |
The federal police (Dutch: Federale Politie; French: Police Fédérale) carry out specialized police and investigation missions that cover more than one region in Belgium. The federal police have approximately 12,500 personnel that provide support...
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| x Federal Highway Police | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Brazilian Federal Highway Police (Polícia Rodoviária Federal or PRF) is a federal law enforcement agency, subordinate to the Ministry of Justice, whose main function is fighting crime on Brazilian federal roads and highways, as well as...
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| x Brazilian Federal Police |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Polícia Federal (in English: Federal Police) is the federal police force of Brazil, whose main assignments are the investigations of crimes against the Federal Government or its organs and companies, the combat of international drug trafficking...
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| x Federal Railroad Police | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Brazilian Federal Railroad Police (US English) or Federal Railway Police (British English) (Portuguese: Polícia Ferroviária Federal) is a police agency founded in 1852 which is responsible for patrols and security on federal railways in Brazil....
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| x National Prison Department | Federal law enforcement agency |
The National Prison Department in Brazil (DEPEN), is the agency responsible for security and administration of the federal prison system. This agency was reorganized in 2006, with the passage of several new laws and the construction of new prisons....
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| x Canada Border Services Agency |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) (French: Agence des services frontaliers du Canada - ASFC) is a federal law enforcement agency that is responsible for border guard and customs services.
The Agency was created on December 12, 2003 (the same...
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| x Correctional Service of Canada |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Correctional Service of Canada (French: Service correctionnel du Canada), or CSC, is a Canadian government agency responsible for the incarceration and rehabilitation of convicted criminal offenders.
The Correctional Service of Canada came into...
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| x Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) (French: Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC), literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most...
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| x Polizei beim Deutschen Bundestag | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Polizei beim Deutschen Bundestag (Polizei DBT, commonly known as Bundestagspolizei) is a German Federal police organization protecting premises of the Bundestag in Berlin.
The DBT is based upon article 40, 2 Grundgesetz. It has been established...
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| x Central Office of the State Justice Administration for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Central Office of the State Justice Administration for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, also known in German as Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen or Zentrale Stelle or...
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| x Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (FfDF) is the federal commissioner not only for data protection but also (since commencement of the German Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2006) for freedom of...
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| x German Criminal Police Office |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (in German: Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) is the national investigative police agency of Germany and falls directly under the Federal Ministry of the Interior . It is comparable to the Federal Bureau of...
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| x German Ministry of the Interior |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Federal Ministry of the Interior (in German, Bundesministerium des Innern or BMI) is a ministry of the German federal government. Its main office is in Berlin, with a secondary seat in Bonn. The current minister of the interior is Thomas de...
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| x German Federal Police |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Bundespolizei (BPOL) is the (primarily) uniformed federal police force of Germany. It is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern (BMI)) . Ordinary police forces (which are much more sizable in combined...
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| x German Federal Coast Guard |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The German Federal Coast Guard (German: Koordinierungsverbund Küstenwache) is a civilian law enforcement organisation whose primary missions are border protection, maritime environmental protection, shipping safety, fishery protection and customs...
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| x Zollkriminalamt | Federal law enforcement agency |
The German Customs Investigation Bureau in Cologne (Zollkriminalamt, ZKA) and its investigation offices are federal agencies that fall under the German Finance Ministry. The ZKA coordinates customs investigations nationwide in particular monitoring...
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| x Assam Rifles |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Assam Rifles are an Indian paramilitary force. The unit can trace its lineage back to a paramilitary police force that was formed under the British in 1835 called Cachar Levy. Since then the Assam Rifles have undergone a number of name changes...
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| x Border Security Force |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Border Security Force (BSF) is a border patrol agency of the Government of India. Established on December 1, 1965, it is a component of the paramilitary forces of India (PMF) and its primary role is to guard India's international borders during...
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| x Central Bureau of Investigation |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) (Hindi: केंद्रीय अन्वेषण ब्यूरो 'Kendriya Janch Bureau'), is India's premier investigating agency, responsible for a wide variety of criminal and national security matters. It was established on 1 April 1963...
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| x Central Industrial Security Force |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Central Industrial Security Force (established in its present form: June 15, 1983) is a paramilitary security force in India.
It was set up under an act of Parliament on March 10, 1969 with a strength of 2,800. CISF was subsequently made an...
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| x Central Reserve Police Force |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is a paramilitary security agency/Force functioning under the aegis of Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA), Government of India. The CRPF's primary role lies in assisting the State/Union Territories in police...
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| x Corps of Military Police | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Corps of Military Police (CMP) is the military police of the Indian Army. In addition, the CMP is trained to handle prisoners of war and to regulate traffic, as well as to handle basic telecommunication equipment such as telephone exchanges....
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| x Directorate of revenue intelligence | Federal law enforcement agency |
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) is an Indian intelligence agency.
It was set up in 1953 as the Central Revenue Intelligence Bureau. The organisation was charged with the responsibility of developing intelligence on matters connected...
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| x Indian Home Guard |
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Federal law enforcement agency |
The Indian Home Guard is an Indian paramilitary force which is tasked as an auxiliary to the Indian Police. The Home Guards Organization was reorganised in India in 1962 after the Sino-Indian War with the People's Republic of China, though it...
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