Organisation of the Internal Security Forces

Type

Decree-Law

Number

59

Date of the text

24/03/1953

Official Gazette

published in 1953

Status today

Repealed in part as of 27/08/2026

Articles

250

What it provides

This legislative decree organizes the Internal Security Forces and their duties, such as keeping public order, judicial and administrative policing, managing prisons and traffic. It sets up their structure of inspectorate, gendarmerie command and police directorate, and defines the inspector general's powers of inspect

What has changed this text

• Partly repealed by Law No. 0/1953 of 09/10/1953
• Partly repealed by Law/1953 of 09/10/1953
• Amended by Law No. 0/1953 of 21/12/1953, articles 248
• Amended by Law/1953 of 21/12/1953, articles 248
• Amended by Law No. 0/1953 of 29/12/1953
• Amended by Law No. 0/1954 of 31/07/1954, articles 43

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1953. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.