Law enforcement in Honduras
Encyclopedia
Current Branches
- Transit Police (Honduras) (Policia de Transito), a police force in charge of automobile transportation. They take care of car accidents, parking violations and other infringements.
- DGIC (Dirección General de Investigaciones Criminalisticas), agency take takes care of forensics, drug enforcement,
- Cobras (Honduras), armed conflict people
Historic Civil Guards now abolished
- Civil Guard (Honduras), a militarized police commanded directly by presidentPresident of HondurasThis page lists the Presidents of Honduras.Colonial Honduras declared its independence from Spain on 15 September 1821. From 5 January 1822 to 1 July 1823, Honduras was part of the First Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide....
Ramon Villeda MoralesRamon Villeda MoralesDr. Ramón Villeda Morales served as President of Honduras from 1957 to 1963. Trained as a physician, Villeda Morales was a liberal who supported the democratization of Honduras after a long period of military rule...
rather than the chief of the armed forces created in 1957
Historical secret police organizations
- Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI) (National Investigation Department)
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.