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Secret police   /sˈikrət pəlˈis/   Listen
Secret police

noun
1.
A police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition).






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"Secret police" Quotes from Famous Books



... expected peasant clad, half starved Russians furtively shooting glances at their neighbors for fear of the secret police. Nor a black bread and cabbage diet. Nor long lines of the politically suspect being hauled off to Siberia. But on the other hand he was unprepared for ...
— Combat • Dallas McCord Reynolds



Words linked to "Secret police" :   police, police force, Gestapo, law, constabulary



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