Dirección General de Policía

General Directory of Police Dirección General de Policía
DIGEPOL headquarters in Trujillo state.
Abbreviation	DIGEPOL
Agency overview
Formed	1959; 65 years ago (1959)
Preceding agency	Directory of National Security
Dissolved	19 March 1969; 55 years ago (1969-03-19)
Superseding agency	National Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Venezuela

The Dirección General de Policía (DIGEPOL) was a Venezuelan police agency. DIGEPOL was created after the transition to democracy following the 1958 fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, replacing in part the former Seguridad Nacional.^[1]

History

In 1965, after being detained by DIGEPOL days before, communist professor Alberto Lovera [es] was killed and found in a beach in Puerto La Cruz. President Raúl Leoni declared that the government would lend all its resources to punish the culprits.^[1][2]

DIGEPOL was replaced in 1969 by the National Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP), under the control of the Interior Ministry.^[1]

References

1. Mark Ungar (2002), Elusive reform: democracy and the rule of law in Latin America, p99
2. "1965 - Cronología de historia de Venezuela". Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela. Retrieved 2024-02-24.