Law enforcement in Honduras

Honduran Police in San Francisco, Lempira

Law enforcement in Honduras is split among three law enforcement organisations.

• National Police of Honduras

Current branches

• Transit Police (Honduras) (Policia de Transito), a police force in charge of automobile transportation. They take care of car crashes, parking violations and other infringements.
• DGIC (Dirección General de Investigaciones Criminalisticas), the agency that takes care of forensics and drug enforcement.
• Comando de Operaciones Especiales COECO (Cobras), a police tactical unit that deals primarily with countering riots, sniper shooting, and tactical operations.
• Tropa de Inteligencia y Grupos de Respuesta Especial de Seguridad (TIGRES), a police tactical unit that specializes in dealing with organized crime and hooliganism.

Past law enforcement bodies

Civil Guard, now abolished

• Civil Guard in Honduras is a militarized police which was commanded directly by president Ramon Villeda Morales before his death, rather than the chief of the armed forces created in 1957.

Historical secret police organizations

• Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI) (National Investigation Department)

See also

• Crime in Honduras

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.