Dirección General de Policía

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] 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.