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| country= Panama
| image= [[Image:Flag of Panama.svg|200px]] 
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| age= 85 years
| availability='''''Males age 15-49:''''' 761,568 (2000 est.)
| service='''''Males age 15-49:''''' 521,487 (2000 est.)
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===Panamanian Public Forces===
On [[February 10]], [[1990]] the government of then President [[Guillermo Endara]] abolished Panama's military and reformed the security apparatus by creating the Panamanian Public Forces.  In October [[1994]], Panama's Legislative Assembly approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting the creation of a standing military force, but allowing the 
temporary establishment of a special police unitstemporal military to counter acts of "external aggression."  

The PPF includes the National Police, National Maritime Service, and National Air Service and an armed Institutional Protection Service or SPI for protection of public buildings.

Law enforcement units that have been separated from the public force, such as the Technical Judicial Police, also are directly subordinate to civilian authorities. The public force budget, in contrast to the former PDF, is on public record and under control of the executive.

== Further reading ==
* ''Military Foundations of Panamanian Politics,'' Robert C. Harding, Transaction Publishing, 2001.
* ''The History of Panama,'' Robert C. Harding, Greenwood Publishing, 2006.

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