Civil Guard
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Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:
Current
- Civil Guard (Spain), Spanish gendarmerie
- Civil Guard (Israel), Israeli volunteer police reserve
- Civil Guard (Brazil), Municipal law enforcement corporations in Brazil
Historic Civil Guards now abolished:
- 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 (Panama) (abolished)
- Civil Guard (Philippines), a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities
- 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
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