The National Commission on Human Rights has documented dozens of cases in which police forced the vegetables into victim's mouths, said Joselin Melo, the organisation's vice president.
The technique makes people feel as if they are asphyxiating - but some had onions stuffed into their rectums, she claimed.
Allegations of torture involving suspects and inmates have been well-documented in the Caribbean country, Ms Melo said. But it was the first time the commission had heard about onions being used as weapons, she continued.
"They have specialised in this technique. It appears that the onion has given them results," Ms Melo said.
Pollice also have hit people with baseball bats and other weapons and mistreated their genitals, she alleged. The torture has been inflicted on people seized without arrest warrants or detention orders, but whom police believe might know about a crime or be involved in it, Ms Melo said.
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