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
References
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.