Civil Guard

Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

Current:

• Civil Guard (Spain): The Spanish gendarmerie
• Civil Guard (Israel): An Israeli volunteer police reserve
• Civil Guard (Costa Rica)

Historic Civil Guards now abolished:

• Civil Guard (Peru), formed as main preventive police force of Peru in 1924, later became General Police which in 1988 merged into new National Police
• Civil Guard (Colombia), created in 1902
• Civil Guard (El Salvador), created in 1867, which then gave way to the Guardia Nacional in 1912.
• Civil Guard (Honduras), a militarized police commanded directly by president Ramon Villeda Morales rather than the chief of the armed forces created in 1957
• Civil Guard (Panama) (abolished)
• Civil Guard (Philippines), a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities with a contingent of local soldiers that died off with the Spanish-American war in 1898, now being reestablished in the city of Ozamiz [1]. In the Intramuros district of Manila, security forces are dressed in guardia civil uniforms [2].
• Gwardya Sibil (Philippine resistance network), a civilian underground network operating during the years 1936 to 1939 to gather intelligence on the activities of the Japanese invaders[3].
• Suojeluskunta, a Finnish militia for which "Civil Guard" is one of the many English translations.

See also

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

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