Editing Secret police (section)

==== Brazil ====
During the [[Vargas Era|Getúlio Vargas dictatorship]], between 1930 and 1946, the [[Department of Political and Social Order]] (DOPS) was the government's secret police.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Viviane Godinho Corrêa |first1=Michelle |title=DOPS - Departamento de Ordem Política e Social - História |url=https://www.infoescola.com/historia/dops/ |website=InfoEscola |access-date=8 August 2021 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

During the [[military dictatorship in Brazil]], DOPS was employed by the military regime along with the [[DOI-CODI|Department of Information Operations - Center for Internal Defense Operations]] (or DOI-CODI) and the [[National Intelligence Service of Brazil|National Intelligence Service]] (or SNI), and engaged in kidnappings, torture, and attacks against theaters and bookstores.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1997|title=Brazil - The National Intelligence Service, 1964-90|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+br0121)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405014912/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+br0121)|archive-date=2015-04-05|access-date=2021-02-09|website=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref>