Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal

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Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal (National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence, DNIC) is an

(SIDE), which has its own Directorate of Interior Intelligence.

Creation

The Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal (National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence, DNIC) was initially created by the 1992 Interior Security Law 24.059 as Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Interior (National Directorate of Interior Intelligence, DNII).

In December 2001, as the new Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 passed, the National Intelligence System was created, and Article 47/48 renamed the old DNII to its current name.

At the time of the writing of the 1992 Interior Security Law 24.059, the National Aeronautical Police (Policía Aeronáutica Nacional, PNA) was controlled by the

, the Airport Security Police (Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria, PSA). DNIC also handles intelligence from the mentioned organism that has inherited from the military-controlled PNA.

Function

Its mission, as detailed on Article 16 of the 1992 Interior Security Law 24.059, is to be a federal agency within the

.

See also

• List of secretaries of intelligence of Argentina
• Argentine intelligence agencies
• National Intelligence System
• National Intelligence School
• Directorate of Judicial Surveillance
• Secretariat of Intelligence
• National Directorate of Strategic Military Intelligence

External links

• (in Spanish) Intelligence Reform Law 25.520
• (in Spanish) Interior Security Law 24.059