General Commissariat of Information
- Eugenio Pereiro Blanco, Commissioner-General
The General Commissariat of Information (Spanish: Comisaría General de Información, CGI) is an intelligence service within the National Police Corps of Spain responsible for the collection, analysis and distribution of information relevant to domestic security, as well as its exploitation or operational use, especially in matters of counterterrorism, both nationally and internationally.[1][2] It may be regarded as the Spanish equivalent of the United Kingdom's Special Branch.
It is colloquially named secret police, though in Spain the name of secret police is usually used to any police officer in plainclothes.
History
The General Commissariat of Information was created in November 1912 along with the Directorate-General for Security (currently Directorate-General of the Police) as a "center where all the data and information from the national territory flows, related to the maintenance of general order and the prevention and prosecution of crimes (...)".[3]
In 1939 it was renamed as General Commissariat of Information.[4] According to the agreements of the Council of Ministers, this service has the rank of secret, and his structure, budget, resources, procedures and agents can not be revealed.
TEDAX
From the General Commissariat of Information depends the special unit called TEDAX-NRBQ. TEDAX is the Spanish name for the units trained in bomb disposal.
See also
- Civil Guard Information Service (Civil Guard counterpart)
- General Commissariat of Judiciary Police
- Spanish Intelligence Community
- National Intelligence Center
References
- ^ "Real Decreto 734/2020, de 4 de agosto, por el que se desarrolla la estructura orgánica básica del Ministerio del Interior". boe.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ^ Presentation of CGI
- ^ "Decree of 27 November 1912 creating the Directorate-General for Security" (PDF). www.boe.es (in Spanish). 28 November 1912. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Law of 23 September 1939 reorganizing the Directorate-General for Security" (PDF). www.boe.es (in Spanish). 1939. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
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