secret police
秘密警察
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- : a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
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While the Stasi, the secret police, denied the group the right to organize in public, these tenacious women and men coordinated house parties, steamboat cruises and birthday dinners.
Trying to escape the secret police at the time, her family moved to Botswana, Kenya, and Uganda before she, her sister, and mother arrived in England when she was 8 years old, leaving her dad behind.
The Islamic republic itself has released many of the shah’s records, including the files of his secret police.
In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
Police officials told the AP that they came out with guns blazing.
Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”
Smith attended both funerals as a cop and as the husband of Police Officer Moira Smith, who died on 9/11.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.
To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.
He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, founded the secret society of the illuminati.