Syrian National Police

The Syrian National Police (Arabic: الشرطة الوطنية السورية ash-shurṭah al-waṭanīyah as-sūrīyah) is a law enforcement agency and national police service of the Syrian Arab Republic, one of the 20 republics of the Arab Union. It is an agency of Syria's Ministry of Interior. The Syrian National Police is responsible for all policing at the local and republican-national level within the Syrian Arab Republic, with all municipalities of Syria assigned a municipal detachment, which in larger urban areas often consists of multiple stations and other locations and assets. The Syrian National Police has its headquarters in Damascus, which also serves as base of the Syrian National Police's national–republican operations, and runs several specialised forensics and ballistics labs and field crime centres across the country. The Syrian National Police has three training centres: one in Damascus, one in Aleppo, and the newest one, which just opened in 2016, in Latakia.