Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

Current

Civil Guard (Spain) The Civil Guard (; ) is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain. As a national gendarmerie, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil police, policing under the authority of both the Ministry of the Interior (Spai ...

, Spanish national gendarmerie force founded in 1844. *

Garda Síochána (; meaning "the Guardian(s) of the Peace") is the national police and security service of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is more commonly referred to as the Gardaí (; "Guardians") or "the Guards". The service is headed by the Garda Commissio ...

, Irish national police force founded in 1922. *

Civil Guard (Israel) The Civil Guard (), abbreviated in Hebrew as Mash'az (משא"ז) is a volunteer organization of Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syr ...

, Israeli volunteer police reserve. * Municipal Civil Guard (Brazil), Municipal law enforcement corporations in Brazil. Historic Civil Guards now abolished: *'' Gardes Civiles Indigenes'', fully armed and equipped, and full time paramilitary forces raised in some French colonies for service in that colony. * ''

Garde Civique The ''Garde Civique'' or ''Burgerwacht'' ( French and Dutch; "Civic Guard") was a Belgian paramilitary militia which existed between 1830 and 1920. Created in October 1830 shortly after the Belgian Revolution, the Guard amalgamated the various ...

'' of Belgium, a historic militia maintained until 1914. *

Civil Guard (Costa Rica) Civil Guard (Spanish: ''Guardia Civil'') of Costa Rica was a gendarmerie type force responsible for both limited national defense and internal security missions. The Guardia Civil was the largest branch of the Fuerza Pública (Public Force) and wa ...

, fully merged into the Fuerza Pública. *

Civil Guard (Peru) The Civil Guard (; ) was the main preventive police force of Peru until its dissolution in 1988. As a national gendarmerie force, it was responsible for civil Police, policing under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior (Peru), Ministry o ...

, police force of Peru in 1924. * Civil Guard (Colombia), created in 1902. *

Civil Guard (El Salvador) Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations: Current * Civil Guard (Spain), Spanish national gendarmerie force founded in 1844. * Garda Síochána, Irish national police force founded in 1922. * Civil Guard (Israel), Israeli volunteer p ...

, created in 1867, which then gave way to the

National Guard National guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards. ...

in 1912. *

Civil Guard (Honduras) Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations: Current * Civil Guard (Spain), Spanish national gendarmerie force founded in 1844. * Garda Síochána, Irish national police force founded in 1922. * Civil Guard (Israel), Israeli volunteer p ...

, a militarized police commanded directly by President

Ramón Villeda Morales José Ramón Adolfo "el Pajarito" Villeda Morales (November 26, 1909 – October 8, 1971) served as President of Honduras from 1957 to 1963. Biography Trained as a physician, his specialty was pediatrics. Villeda Morales was a liberal ...

. *

Civil Guard Association for a Better Future The Civil Guard Association for a Better Future () is a Hungarian militant organisation involved in anti-Roma activities in areas such as the town of Gyöngyöspata in early 2011, where they have been accused of intimidating the Roma population wit ...

, Hungarian anti-Roma organization. *

Civil Guard (Panama) Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations: Current * Civil Guard (Spain), Spanish national gendarmerie force founded in 1844. * Garda Síochána, Irish national police force founded in 1922. * Civil Guard (Israel), Israeli volunteer p ...

(abolished) *

Civil Guard (Philippines) The Civil Guard in the Philippines (, ) was the branch of the Spanish Civil Guard organized under the Captaincy General of the Philippines and a component of the Spanish Army. It was disbanded after the Spanish–American War. After the Philippi ...

, a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities. * Civil Guard (Laos), a Laotian militia organized by the anti-French

Lao Issara The Lao Issara ( ) was an anti-French nationalist movement formed on 12 October 1945 by Prince Phetsarath. The short-lived movement emerged after the Japanese defeat in World War II and became the government of Laos before the return of the Fr ...

nationalists between 1945-46. * Civil Guard (South Vietnam), merged into the

South Vietnamese Popular Force The South Vietnamese Popular Force (, PF) (originally the Self-Defense Corps) was a part-time local militia of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) during the Vietnam War. The South Vietnamese Popular Force mainly protected homes and village ...

and the South Vietnamese Regional Force. * Gwardya Sibil (Philippine resistance network), a civilian underground network operating during World War II. *

Suojeluskunta The White Guard, officially known as the Civil Guard (, ; ; ), was a voluntary militia, part of the Finnish Whites movement, that emerged victorious over the socialist Red Guards in the Finnish Civil War of 1918. They were generally known as ...

, a Finnish militia for which "Civil Guard" is one of the many English translations. *

Civil Guard (Zaire) The Zairian Civil Guard () was a militarised police force in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), created to support the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. History The unit was created in 1984,See Ordonnance-loi No. 84-036 du 28 Aout 1984 p ...

, created in 1984 and disestablished in 1997. *

National Civil Guard The National Civil Guard (, ''Ethniki Politophylaki'') was the security force of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA), the government that the National Liberation Front (EAM) had established in the territory it controlled during t ...

and the

People's Civil Guard The People's Civil Guard (, ) was the security force of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) during the Greek Civil War (1946–49). It was the police counterpart of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE), KKE's military force. It was actually the succ ...

, security forces of the

Communist Party of Greece The Communist Party of Greece (, ΚΚΕ; ''Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas'', KKE) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece. It was founded in 1918 as the Socialist Workers' Party of Greece (SEKE) and adopted its current name in Novem ...

between 1944-45 and 1947-49 respectively.

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