Civil Guard
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Civil Guard
refers to various policing organisations:
Current
Civil Guard (Spain)
, Spanish national gendarmerie force founded in 1844.
Garda Síochána
, Irish national police force founded in 1922.
Civil Guard (Israel)
, Israeli volunteer police reserve.
Municipal Civil Guard (Brazil)
, Municipal law enforcement corporations in Brazil.
Historic Civil Guards now abolished
Gardes Civiles Indigenes
, fully armed and equipped, and full time paramilitary forces raised in some French colonies for service in that colony.
Garde Civique
of Belgium, a historic militia maintained until 1914.
Civil Guard (Costa Rica)
, fully merged into the Fuerza Pública.
Civil Guard (Peru)
, police force of Peru in 1924.
Civil Guard (Colombia)
, created in 1902.
Civil Guard (El Salvador)
, created in 1867, which then gave way to the
National Guard
in 1912.
Civil Guard (Honduras)
, a militarized police commanded directly by President
Ramón Villeda Morales
.
Civil Guard Association for a Better Future
, Hungarian anti-Roma organization.
Civil Guard (Panama)
(abolished)
Civil Guard (Philippines)
, a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities.
Civil Guard (Laos)
, a Laotian militia organized by the anti-French
Lao Issara
nationalists between 1945-46.
Civil Guard (South Vietnam)
, merged into the
South Vietnamese Popular Force
and the South Vietnamese Regional Force.
Gwardya Sibil
(Philippine resistance network), a civilian underground network operating during World War II.
Suojeluskunta
, a Finnish militia for which "Civil Guard" is one of the many English translations.
Civil Guard (Zaire)
, created in 1984 and disestablished in 1997.
National Civil Guard
and the
People's Civil Guard
, security forces of the
Communist Party of Greece
between 1944-45 and 1947-49 respectively.
See also
Civic Guard (disambiguation)
Guard (disambiguation)
Guardia (disambiguation)
National Guard
Home Guard
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