30,000 active (as of 2016)[1] 50,000 part-time & reserve agents
Annual budget
USD 481 million (2011)[1]
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction
PAN
General nature
Gendarmerie
Civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters
Panama City, Panama
Parent agency
Ministry of Public Security
Child agencies
National Border Service
National Aeronaval Service
Panamanian National Police
Institutional Protection Service
Website
Ministry of Public Security
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 abolish its standing army, with Panama retaining a small paramilitary 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.
Panama maintains armed police and internal security forces, and small air and maritime forces. They are tasked with law enforcement and can perform limited military actions. Since 2010 they have reported to the Ministry of Public Security.
^ abIISS (2012), p. 397
and 22 Related for: Panamanian Public Forces information
The PanamanianPublicForces (Spanish: Fuerza Pública de la República de Panamá) are the national security forces of Panama. Panama is the second country...
National Police of Panama (Spanish: Policía Nacional de Panamá) is the national police of Panama, under the PanamanianPublicForces. Established by the...
Panamanian citizenship were abolished, the 1946 Constitution was repealed and major transformations of political and social order in the Panamanian nation...
process of handing over the canal to Panamanian control by 2000. Although the canal was destined for Panamanian administration, the military bases remained...
The Military ranks of Panama are the ranks used by the PanamanianPublicForces, which have some warfare capabilities. Panama abolished its army in 1990...
Public Security (North Korea) Ministry of Public Safety and Security (South Korea) Ministry of Public Security of Panama, supervising the Panamanian Public...
specialized in the land border area and branch of the PanamanianPublicForces. Its mission is to protect Panama's land borders and protect its sovereignty and...
Servicio de Protección Institucional) is a service branch of the PanamanianPublicForces. The Institutional Protection Service was organized in March 1990...
Law enforcement in Panama is performed by the PanamanianPublicForces. The Public Force has several branches which are Panamanian National Police and...
Service of Panama, also called SENAN (abbreviation for Spanish: Servicio Nacional Aeronaval), is a branch of the PanamanianPublicForces which is responsible...
were legal under Panamanian law. Later that day, the Independent Movement (MOVIN) called for calm, and expressed hope that the Panamanian justice system...
This is a list of sovereign states without armed forces. Dependent territories (such as Bermuda, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands) whose defence...
Vishva Mangal near Searsport, ME. On 13 December 1978, she seized the Panamanian tug Tuskewr, which was attempting to smuggle hashish worth about $1 million...
America. For most Panamanians, several or all of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their Panamanian identity. Panama is a multilingual...
Laotian Civil War Nicaragua Nicaraguan Air Force 3 x U-17B PanamaPanamanianPublicForces 3 x U-17A Paraguay Paraguayan Air Force 5 x U-17A Peru Peruvian...
Force Philippines Philippine Air Force - four as of 1986 PanamaPanamanianPublicForces - one T210N in 1980s Paraguay Paraguayan Air Force - two 210Ns...
Marines partnered with Colombian special operations to train the PanamanianPublicForces in drug-interdiction tactics. Auchincloss completed both infantry...
for a Panamanian flag. Bunau-Varilla's design was based on the flag of the United States, possibly on account of that country's hand in Panamanian independence...
The British Armed Forces are the military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies...
Global Information