security police
Internal threat monitors
Security police are law enforcement units responsible for protecting specific institutions, facilities, or state interests.
The term often refers to military police guarding bases and installations, or to government agencies focused on internal security and political threats.
In authoritarian contexts, security police may conduct surveillance, suppress dissent, and detain political opponents: The security police raided the newspaper's offices.
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- StasiEast German secret police
- KGBUSSR intelligence service
- informantOne who provides intelligence
- checkpointInspection station on route
identity papers · interrogation · detention center · badge · uniform · armed guard · patrol · watchlist · clearance · detain · arrest · baton · authoritarian · monitor · curfew · night raid · raid · guard
- Apartheidapartheid, pass laws, Group Areas Act, passbook, passbooks
security policedissidents
Political objectors
resistance movement · freedom fighters · revolutionaries · underground movement · political prisoners
security policecivil liberties union
Rights watchdog organization
ombudsman · public defenders · constitutional court · human rights organizations · Amnesty International
security policebeat cops
Officers patrolling assigned neighborhoods
neighborhood patrol · traffic police · municipal police · patrol officers · homicide detectives
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