Second, within this "directorate" of big countries, Germany has gained power, becoming "first among equals".
The Child Protection Unit in the General Directorate of State Police is part of the Directorate against Terrorists Acts and Serious Crimes.
In the spring of 2010, three Lebanese comic-book artists were ordered to come to the Beirut headquarters of the Directorate of General Security, where the country's censorship authorities are located.
Kenya's anti-drugs police have asked the country's directorate of public prosecutions to drop the case while they await a "further intelligence report from Brazil and Valencia", according to a letter seen by the Mail on Sunday.
A total of 31,145 people applied for asylum in Norway last year, according to the country's Directorate of Immigration statistics ― almost 20,000 more than the year before.
According to a recent report by the Afghan government's Independent Directorate of Local Governance, over 50% of the country's 384 districts face some threat of violence.
In spite of the genocide's legacy, the country is increasingly perceived internationally as a safe destination; The Directorate of Immigration and Emigration recorded 405,801 people visiting the country between January and June 2011; 16% of these arrived from outside Africa.
One particularly notorious branch of South Africa's apartheid-era intelligence network was the Directorate of Covert Collection (reformed following the dismantling of the country's apartheid system in 1994), a secretive organization that fomented pro-government violence.
They said they were also eager to get the facts out before the Pakistanis and that country's powerful spy agency, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, offered their own facts and interpretation of events.
Lack of a database at the central and state levels. 1 erstwhile Directorate of Statistics; the unit of statistics under the Directorate of Education in ICFRE.
