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se·cret po·lice

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. secret policenoun

    a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)

Wiktionary

  1. secret policenoun

    A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law, usually in support of a totalitarian government to suppress political dissent.

Wikipedia

  1. Secret police

    Secret police (or political police) are intelligence, security or police agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, religious, or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. They protect the political power of a dictator or regime and often operate outside the law to repress dissidents and weaken political opposition, frequently using violence.

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  1. secret police

    Secret police is a law enforcement or investigative agency that operates in secrecy, beyond the law, and often employs underhanded tactics or unethical procedures to maintain national security or political control. The term is usually associated with authoritarian regimes and is used to suppress political dissent, control or eliminate opposition groups, or conduct covert activities, such as spying. Secret police may also engage in activities such as assassination, kidnapping, torture, coercion, or intimidation.

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  1. Secret police

    Secret police are intelligence agencies and or police agency, law enforcement office which operates in secrecy and also quite often beyond the law to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian political regime. Instead of transparently enforcing the rule of law and being subject to public scrutiny as ordinary police agencies do, secret police organizations are specifically intended to operate beyond and above the law in order to suppress political dissent through clandestine acts of terror and intimidation targeted against political enemies of the ruling authority. Secret police forces are accountable only to the executive branch of the government, sometimes only to a dictator. They operate entirely or partially in secrecy, that is, most or all of their operations are obscure and hidden from the general public and government except for the topmost executive officials. This semi-official capacity allows the secret police to bolster the government's control over their citizens while also allowing the government to deny prior knowledge of any violations of civil liberties.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of secret police in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of secret police in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of secret police in a Sentence

  1. Tucker Carlson:

    Whatever you think of Matt Gaetz, whatever you’ve heard, it’s pretty simple. If a law enforcement agency and Justice Department accuse you of a crime, they have to prove it, they do n’t just get to shut you up by smearing you... they have to take you to a court and show that you are guilty. If you are n’t really doing that, you are n’t a law enforcement agency, they are more like a secret police.

  2. Antoni Macierewicz:

    It shows that (secret police) files were being used to blackmail people. An entire group of people had become a tool in the hands of the communist regime which used them to obtain power and influence.

  3. Breon Peace:

    We don’t need or want a secret police station in our great city.

  4. George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004:

    The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

  5. Edward Abbey:

    If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.


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