 Directorate of Carabineers and Rural Security

The Directorate of Carabineers and Rural Security of the National Police of Colombia supervises the Mounted Police, or Carabineros Corps, a rural paramilitary police force resulting from the 1993 reform to patrol and maintain public order in conflict zones and in the national parks.Despite its reestablishment in 1993, the Carabineros Corps is actually Colombia’s oldest police force, created by a law of May 18, 1841.