Editing Angolan Armed Forces (section)

=== Territorial troops ===
The Directorate of People's Defense and Territorial Troops of the Defence Ministry or ODP was established in late 1975. It had 600,000 members, having personnel in virtually every village by 1979. It had both armed and unarmed units dispersed in villages throughout the country.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Angola Internal Security Forces and Organization – Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System|url=https://photius.com/countries/angola/national_security/angola_national_security_internal_security_fo~140.html|access-date=2021-06-28|website=photius.com}}</ref> The People's Vigilance Brigades ({{Langx|pt|Brigadas Populares de Vigilância, BPV}}) also serve a similar purpose.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tvedten|first=Inge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qulgDwAAQBAJ&q=Brigadas+Populares+de+Vigil%C3%A2ncia&pg=PA48|title=Angola: Struggle For Peace And Reconstruction|date=2018-10-08|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-97080-1|language=en}}</ref>