The Police Community of the Americas or Ameripol ( es, Comunidad de Policías de América) is a hemispheric mechanism of cooperation

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created in 2007. Mission: The Police Community of the Americas - AMERIPOL is a hemispheric mechanism of cooperation, which purpose is to promote and enhance police cooperation in terms of technical-scientific facts, training, exchange of information and progress in terms of legal assistance to guide strategic and operational work against threats to public and citizen safety. Vision: For the year 2015, the Police Community of the Americas - AMERIPOL will be constituted as an excellent organism of Police cooperation for the joint deployment of strategies against organized crime and

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in the Americas, supported in this work from every police force and homologous institution, thereby ensuring calmness to citizens. Representatives of 18 countries formalized the creation of Ameripol on 14 November 2007 in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the ...

Member police forces

* Fuerza de Policía Real de Antigua y Barbuda *

Argentine National Gendarmerie The Argentine National Gendarmerie ( es, Gendarmería Nacional Argentina, GNA) is the national gendarmerie force and corps of border guards of the Argentine Republic. It has a strength of 70,000. The gendarmerie is primarily a frontier guard forc ...

* Departamento de Policía de Belice * Policía Boliviana * Departamento de Polícia Federal *

Carabineros de Chile ( en, Carabiniers of Chile) are the Chilean national law enforcement police, who have jurisdiction over the entire national territory of the Republic of Chile. Created in 1927, their mission is to maintain order and enforce the laws of Chile. T ...

National Police of Colombia The National Police of Colombia (Spanish: ''Policía Nacional de Colombia'') is the national police force of the Republic of Colombia. Although the National Police is not part of the Military Forces of Colombia (Army, Navy, and Air Force), it ...

* Fuerza Pública de Costa Rica * Organismo de Investigación Judicial * Policía Nacional Revolucionaria de Cuba * Policía Nacional de Ecuador *

National Civil Police of El Salvador The National Civil Police of El Salvador (Spanish: ''Policía Nacional Civil de El Salvador''), also known as PNC, is the national civilian police of El Salvador. Although the National Civil Police is not part of the Armed Forces of El Salvador ...

Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA; ) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating drug trafficking and distribution within the U.S. It is the lead agency for domestic en ...

* Policía de Puerto Rico * Policía Nacional Civil de Guatemala * Fuerza de Policía de Guiana *

Haitian National Police The Haitian National Police (PNH; french: Police Nationale d'Haïti, , National Police of Haiti) is the law enforcement and ''de facto'' police force of Haiti. It was created in 1995 to bring public security under civilian control as mandated i ...

* Policía Nacional de Honduras * Fuerza Constabularia de Jamaica *

Federal Police (Mexico) The Federal Police ( es, Policía Federal, PF), formerly known as the (Federal Preventive Police) and sometimes referred to in the U.S. as "Federales", was a Mexican national police force formed in 1999 and folded into the National Guard in 2019. ...

National Police of Nicaragua The National Nicaraguan Police Force ( es, La Policía Nacional Nicaragüense) is the national police of Nicaragua. The force is in charge of regular police functions and, at times, works in conjunction with the Nicaraguan military, making it an ...

* Policía Nacional de Panamá *

Panamanian Public Forces The Panamanian Public Forces ( es, Fuerza Pública de la República de Panamá) are the national security forces of Panama. Panama is the second country in Latin America (the other being Costa Rica) to permanently abolish standing armies, with P ...

* Policía Nacional del Paraguay *

National Police of Peru The Peruvian National Police ( es, Policía Nacional del Perú, PNP) is the national police force of Peru. Its jurisdiction covers the nation's land, sea, and air territories. Formed from the merge of the Investigative Police, the Civil Guard, ...

* Policía Nacional de República Dominicana * Fuerza de Policía Real de San Cristóbal y Nieves * Fuerza de Policía Real de Santa Lucia * Policía Nacional de Uruguay * Servicio de Policía de Trinidad y Tobago

Observer agencies

* BKA (Oficina Federal de Investigación Criminal de Alemania) *

Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal and national police service of Canada. As poli ...

* CLACIP (Comunidad Latinoamérica y del Caribe de Inteligencia Policial * (Comisión de Jefes/as, Directores/as de Policía de Centroamérica, México, el Caribe y Colombia) * National Police Corps of Spain *

Civil Guard (Spain) The Civil Guard ( es, Guardia Civil, link=no; ) is the oldest law enforcement agency in Spain and is one of two national police forces. As a national gendarmerie force, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the au ...

* Europol (Oficina de Policía de Europa) *

Guardia di Finanza The ''Guardia di Finanza'' (G. di F. or GdF) () (English: literal: ''Guard of Finance'', paraphrased: ''Financial Police'' or ''Financial Guard'') is an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. ...

International Association of Chiefs of Police International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is a nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Virginia (United States). It is the world's largest professional association for police The police are a Law enforcement organization, c ...

Carabinieri The Carabinieri (, also , ; formally ''Arma dei Carabinieri'', "Arm of Carabineers"; previously ''Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali'', "Royal Carabineers Corps") are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign polic ...

* Dirección Central del Servicio Antidrogas de Italia *

Organization of American States The Organization of American States (OAS; es, Organización de los Estados Americanos, pt, Organização dos Estados Americanos, french: Organisation des États américains; ''OEA'') is an international organization that was founded on 30 Apri ...

Interpol The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cr ...

* RSS (Sistema de Seguridad Regional) * Ministry of the Interior of France * Cuerpo de Servicios Policiales de Holanda * Policía Nacional de Suecia * Polícia de Segurança Pública * Center for Research and National Security * Policía Principat d'Andorra

Executive Secretaries and presidents

Executive Secretaries: *Rolando Alexandre de Souza President: *General Commander Andrés Severino

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Member police forces

Observer agencies

Executive Secretaries and presidents

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