General Police Law

Type

Decree-Law

Number

341

Date of the text

01/03/1943

Official Gazette

published in 1943

Status today

Repealed as of 27/08/2026

Articles

130

What it provides

This law organizes the Lebanese police as a regular force under the Ministry of Interior, defines its mission of keeping order and security, and sets out the divisions of its directorate and the powers of each, from the general secretariat and intelligence to judicial and administrative police.

What has changed this text

• Amended by Decree-Law No. 35/1943 of 21/05/1943, articles 67, 68, 69, 73, 75
• Repealed by Decree-Law No. 59/1953 of 24/03/1953

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1943. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.