Law enforcement in Honduras

Honduran Police in Lempira.

Law enforcement in Honduras is split between three law enforcement organisations.

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), agency take takes care of forensics, drug enforcement.
Cobras (Honduras), armed conflict people.

Past law enforcement bodies

Civil Guards, now abolished

Civil Guard (Honduras), a militarized police commanded directly by president Ramon Villeda Morales rather than the chief of the armed forces created in 1957.

Historical secret police organizations

Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI) (National Investigation Department).

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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