NOUN
- a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)
How To Use secret police In A Sentence
- So now in addition to the “ends justify the means” and “de minimus non curat lex” apologia for RW dictatorships, we have an implicit “no true Scotsman” argument: “No real RW gummint has secret police and a surveillance state” (even if they torture and kill their dissidents and anyone else that gets in their way). The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
- The secret police tortured him to obtain information.
- For seven years, he had been administrative director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, more popularly known as the mukhabarat — the secret police. No Tee Time for Zubaid
- This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
- Anatoli Natan Sharansky was twenty-nine years old when he was seized by the Russian secret police, the KGB, taken to Lefortovo prison, stripped naked and searched, and told that he was being charged with treason, a capital offense. BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
- In the novel, scenes of daily hardship alternate with those of stronger historical forces colliding: officers of the secret police rounding up suspected counter-revolutionaries as the city's inhabitants starve; ragged soldiers fighting without adequate ammunition or food; officials studying the files of suspects and reading anonymous denunciations through the night in the only heated building in the city; ambitious party bureaucrats eliminating their enemies; idealistic revolutionaries explaining away gross injustices as "historical necessity. The Revolutionary Novelist
- For months, he lived in terror of the secret police knocking at his door.
- They were warned of the danger of informers and secret police trying to foil them. Times, Sunday Times
- We generally had electricity at that time, because the family flat was quite close to the military secret police.
- The government was unable to curb the excesses of the secret police.
