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The General Directorate of Security (DGS) was a Spanish agency under the Ministry of the Interior responsible for public order policy throughout Spain. [1]
The agency was briefly renamed the General Directorate of Public Order between 1921 and 1923, when it regained its original name. After the Spanish Civil War, the agency increased its role in controlling public order during Franco's dictatorship, becoming one of the main instruments of Francoist repression. It was abolished in 1979 when the current Directorate General of the Police took over its functions. [2]
