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Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Police Organization
Regulations published in 1986 under Law Number 51 of
1984 on
Police Organization (Establishment, Functions, and
Authorities) of
the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus defined the area
of
jurisdiction of the police force of northern Cyprus. The
Police
Organization was divided into two major components, the
central and
provincial organizations. The director general of police,
the most
senior officer of the Police Organization, was responsible
to the
commander of the Turkish Cypriot Security Force with
regard to
planning, coordination, and supervision of police
services. Under
the immediate control of the director general's deputy
were nine
central police directorates: administrative; judicial
police;
political police; air, sea, and ports police; traffic; the
fire
service; police school; immigration; and indigenous
affairs. Two
special units, the Mobile Unit for Immediate Action and
the
narcotics squad, were directly accountable to the director
general
The Judicial Police Directorate assisted provincial
police
organizations in criminal investigations and carried out
its own
judicial investigations in matters of special interest to
the
director general. Its branches included photographic
identification
and fingerprinting; criminal records; firearms
registration;
ballistics laboratories; and a bomb squad. The Political
Police
Directorate included departments of domestic and foreign
intelligence. The directorate tried to gain advance
knowledge of
actions or plans that could affect internal security and
carried
out measures for dealing with them. Provincial political
police
departments were directly subordinate to the central
directorate,
gathering information on threatened offenses or incidents
against
the security of the state and other duties as assigned by
the
director of political police. The combined staffing of the
central
political police organization and the five provincial
organizations
was set at 107 individuals.
Separate provincial police directorates were
established at
Nicosia, Famagusta (Gazimagusa), Kyrenia (Girne), Morphou,
and the
Karpas Peninsula. Under the supervision of each provincial
directorate were three or four regional directorates and
six to
twelve police stations. The provincial police directorates
also had
six service units: administration, judicial police,
traffic,
immigration, fire, and administrative and indigenous
affairs.
Data as of January 1991
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