Directorate-General for Security (Spain)

The Directorate-General for Security (Spanish: Dirección General de Seguridad, DGS) was a Spanish agency under the Ministry of the Interior responsible for public order policy throughout Spain.[1]

First created in March 1858 as Directorate-General for Security and Public Order, it was dissolved in October that year. It was re-established in 1886 as Directorate-General for Security and suppressed in 1888. Finally, the agency was re-established once more in 1912, lasting until the Spanish transition to democracy.

The agency was briefly renamed the Directorate-General for 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]

See also

References

  1. ^ Origen de la Dirección General de Seguridad (I)
  2. ^ Jesús Martínez (1998); pág. 32

Further reading

  • Martínez, Jesús (1998). Historia de España. Siglo XX (1939-1996). Madrid: Cátedra. ISBN 9788437617039.
  • Thomas, Hugh (1976). La Guerra Civil Española. París: Ruedo Ibérico. ISBN 84-253-2767-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
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