Civil Guard

Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

Current

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
  • Civil Guard (Zaire), created in 1984 and disestablished in 1997

See also

  • Civic Guard (disambiguation)
  • Guard (disambiguation)
  • Guardia (disambiguation)
  • National Guard
  • Home Guard
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