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Panamanian Public Forces

Panamanian Public Forces
Coat of arms of Panama.svg
Panamanian Coat of arms
Service branches

POLICIA NACIONAL DE PANAMA - LOGO - v2011.png Panamanian National Police
Servicio Nacional de Fronteras (SENAFRONT) - escudo (shadows detail) - Panamá 2011.png National Border Service
Institutional Protection Service

National Aeronaval Service
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief Juan Carlos Varela
Minister of
Public Security
Alexis Bethancourt Yau
Manpower
Active personnel 30,000 (as of 2016)
Expenditures
Budget USD 481 million (2011)

POLICIA NACIONAL DE PANAMA - LOGO - v2011.png Panamanian National Police
Servicio Nacional de Fronteras (SENAFRONT) - escudo (shadows detail) - Panamá 2011.png National Border Service
Institutional Protection Service

The Panamanian Public Forces (Spanish: Fuerza Pública de la República de Panamá) are the national security forces of Panama. Panama is the second country in Latin America (the other being Costa Rica) to permanently abolish standing armies, with Panama retaining a small para-military security force. This came as a result of a U.S. invasion that overthrew a military dictatorship which ruled Panama from 1968 to 1989. The final military dictator, Manuel Noriega, had been belligerent toward the U.S. culminating in the killing of a U.S. Marine lieutenant and U.S. invasion ordered by U.S. President George H. W. Bush.


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