The Directorate of National Coordination or DNC (French: "Direction de Coordination Nationale" – DCN) was the airborne-qualified paramilitary Security Agency and élite field force of the Royal Lao Police (French: "Police Royale Laotiènne" – PRL). Closely modelled after the Royal Thai Police (RTP) Police Aerial Resupply Unit (PARU) commandos and similar in function to the later South Vietnamese National Police Field Force, the DNC was active during the early phase of the Laotian Civil War from 1960 to 1965.