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WhoWasInCommand.com is our free to use, public database of security force units and organizational structures, command personnel and areas of operation.
Security Force Monitor supports human rights researchers, litigators and investigative journalists working to make state security forces more accountable.
We are a non-profit research group that analyzes thousands of public records to create a simple searchable database of the commanders and the command structures, locations, and areas of operations of security force units and investigate their potential connections to alleged human rights violations.
How we work
Open Source research & data
We conduct open source research and publish detailed information about the command structures of the police, military and other branches of state controlled security forces around the world.
Supporting your investigations
We provide research, technical and data analysis support to human rights researchers, litigators and investigative journalists.
Latest news from Security Force Monitor
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Major update: Six new countries added to WhoWasInCommand.com
WhoWasInCommand.com is the largest public database of security force units and personnel ever created. Today, it gets even bigger and more useful to human right researchers, litigators and investigative journalists.
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Connecting data points through time (or not)
Answering the question “who was where when?” is central for investigations into allegations of human rights abuse(s). Because of this perhaps one of the most defining, and complicaticating, features of the Security Force Monitor’s data is that almost everything we research is connected to time.
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WhoWasInCommand shows you all the sources that evidence every piece of data – but you probably missed the way it does this
Here's how to see all the sources our researchers used to evidence every single piece of data on WhoWasInCommand.
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OpenStreetMap is (sometimes) a handy database of military and police locations – here’s how to see them
OpenStreetMap is a useful tool for getting an impression of a security force's bases and physical infrastructure. How do we do this?