Decree-Law on Organizing the Internal Security Forces

Type

Decree-Law

Number

20

Date of the text

15/01/1955

Official Gazette

published in 1955

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

247

What it provides

This decree-law organises the Internal Security Forces, setting out their duties in maintaining order, enforcing laws, running prisons and policing roads. It divides the force into an Inspectorate General and a Police Directorate, and defines the Inspector General's powers to inspect units and prisons and to impose dis

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 0/1956 of 05/03/1956, articles 7, 16, 38
• Amended by Law No. 0/1956 of 10/12/1956, articles 116, 117

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1955. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.