Definition of secret police in US English:
secret police
nounˈsēkrit pəˈlēsˈsikrɪt pəˈlis
treated as plural A police force working in secret against a government's political opponents.
Example sentencesExamples
- Ganev's career initially received a boost from his role as an official in the Stalinist secret police.
- There was no settling of accounts with the hated and feared secret police, the Securitate.
- However, the new police lack any effective power against the Sandinista secret police or army.
- In places it was only Russian troops who protected the secret police from workers' anger.
- It is not only lower levels of the Brandenburg secret police which have connections to the extreme right wing.
- On arrival all four were arrested by the Gambian secret police.