Special Intelligence Group

The Special Intelligence Group (Spanish: Grupo Especial de Inteligencia, GEIN) was a special branch of the National Police of Peru (PNP) that responsible for clandestine and covert operations, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, domestic counterterrorism, intelligence gathering and assessment on threats to the persons or groups that acts as a threat to public security that are under the responsibility of the police authority, and support investigation complex cases.

It was created within its Dirección contra el terrorismo (DIRCOTE) with the purpose of counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, intelligence gathering and assessment on threats to the persons or groups that acts as a threat to public security, and locating and capturing the leadership bodies of domestic 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.