Law enforcement in
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
falls under the jurisdiction of La
Policia Nacional of Nicaragua. They are in charge of regular police functions and sometimes work in conjunction with the Nicaraguan military, making it an indirect and rather subtle version of a gendarmerie.
The Nicaraguan National Police work separately and have a different established set of norms than the nation's military.
Historical secret police organizations
*Dirección General de Seguridad del Estado (DGSE) (Directorate-General of State Security)
See also
*
Nicaraguan National Police
*
National Guard of Nicaragua
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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