secret police en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(plural, singular) 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. Now it is nineteen eighty-four / Knock-knock at your front door / It's the suede denim secret police / They have come for your uncool niece
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.
2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
Translations (29)
aig lenkuu (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · lv slepenpolicija (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · cmn 秘密警察 (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · hu titkosrendőrség (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · ca policia secreta (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · ar بُولِيس سِرِّيّ (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · ru та́йная поли́ция (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · gl policía secreta (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · da hemmeligt politi (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · fi salainen poliisi (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · ro poliție secretă (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · eu polizia sekretua (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · af geheime polisie (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · no hemmelig politi (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · he בּוֹלֶשֶׁת (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · it polizia segreta (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · nl geheime politie (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · el μυστική αστυνομία (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · yue 秘密警察 (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · bg та́йна поли́ция (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · sv hemlig polis (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · es policía secreta (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · de Geheimpolizei (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · fr police secrète (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · eu isilpeko polizia (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · ja 秘密警察 (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · la politia secreta (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · pl tajna policja (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) · pt polícia secreta (police operating outside normal boundaries of law)