Special Intelligence Group
| Grupo Especial de Inteligencia | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | March 5, 1990 |
| Dissolved | October 3, 1993 |
| Superseding agency | |
| Jurisdiction | Peru |
| Headquarters | Lima |
| Employees | 86 |
| Annual budget | US$ 1,500 (monthly) |
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The Special Intelligence Group (Spanish: Grupo Especial de Inteligencia, GEIN) was an elite unit of the National Police of Peru created within its National Directorate Against Terrorism with the purpose of locating and capturing the leadership bodies of terrorist groups operating since 1980: the Shining Path and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
This unit is historically remembered for having carried out the capture of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán, who was arrested along with part of his central committee on September 12, 1992. It was dissolved on October 3, 1993, becoming the Regional Terrorism Investigation Department 1 (Spanish: Departamento de Investigación de Terrorismo Regional 1, DITER 1). For their work, the group's former members were declared "Heroes of Democracy" by Peru's Congress in 2017.