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secret police
noun
a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
secret police
noun
a police force that operates relatively secretly to check subversion or political dissent
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of secret police1
Example Sentences
Masked ICE agents give the impression of being a secret police force, which is not good for our democracy.
Alternately, his tone was infused with contempt, sarcasm or genuine sympathy for his subjects who had been victims of brutality unleashed by the Gestapo or secret police of the Vichy regime.
Although such disappearances were once associated with the state, especially Mexico’s secret police, in recent decades the tactic has become a tool of cartels to exert control through terror.
We had to operate carefully, because the country is riddled with informers and secret police who spy on their own people for the ruling military junta.
“I’m Still Here” travels us to groovy 1970s Rio de Janeiro to befriend a wealthy, loving family who throw their mansion’s doors open for everyone, until the new regime’s secret police barge inside.
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