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General Directorate of Security (India) The Directorate General of Security is an organisation of covert operations under India's Cabinet Secretariat. It is one of the four legally defined intelligence organisations of India and listed in the Schedule of the ''Intelligence Organisation ...

, an Indian intelligence agency *

General Directorate of Security (Portugal) The General Directorate of Security (; DGS) was a Portuguese criminal police body active between 1969 and 1974, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. Although their duties included, in addition to state security, the supervision ...

(''Direção-Geral de Segurança'') *

General Directorate of Security (Turkey) The General Directorate of Security (, EGM), or the Turkish National Police, is the national civil police of Turkey primarily responsible for law enforcement in urban areas, whilst rural policing falls under the jurisdiction of the Gendarmerie G ...

(''Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü'') *

General Directorate of Public Security General Directorate of Public Security (), formerly General Directorate of Police (), are the civilian police force under the Ministry of Interior responsible for law enforcement in Saudi Arabia. Sections * Special Tasks And Duties * Traffic de ...

, Saudi Arabia *

General Security Directorate (Iraq) The General Security Directorate (GSD) (مديرية الامن العامة, ''Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma'') was the intelligence agency of Iraq. Although details on its organisation were not made clear at the time, the General Security Directorat ...

, (''Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma'') **

Directorate of General Security The Directorate of General Security (DGS) () also known as Internal State Security was a domestic Iraqi Intelligence Service, Iraqi intelligence agency.Hiltermann, Joost. ''Bureaucracy of Repression: The Iraqi Government in Its Own Words''. Hum ...

, Iraqi secret police dissolved in 2003 *

General Security Directorate (Lebanon) The General Security Directorate () is a Lebanese intelligence agency founded on July 21, 1921 and originally known as the "first bureau". On June 12, 1959, Decree-Law No. 139, in force from that date, was published. Under this decree the Gene ...

, (''Sûreté générale'') *

General Security Directorate (Syria) The General Intelligence Directorate (), also known as the ''General Security Directorate'' or ''Syrian GID'', was the most important civil intelligence service of former Ba'athist Syria and played an important role of suppressing the people of ...

, (''Idarat al-Amn al-'Amm'')

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