secret police
Noun
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Noun
secret police (uncountable) (often treated as a plural)
- A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods including intimidation, violence, and surveillance.
- 1979, Jello Biafra & John Greenway, "California Über Alles", Dead Kennedys, California Über Alles.
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- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ↗", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police.
- 1979, Jello Biafra & John Greenway, "California Über Alles", Dead Kennedys, California Über Alles.
- French: police secrète
- German: Geheimpolizei
- Italian: polizia segreta
- Portuguese: polícia secreta
- Russian: та́йная поли́ция
- Spanish: policía secreta
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