English-Dutch translations for secret police

geheime politieWe leggen bestanden van burgers aan, breiden politiediensten en soms de geheime politie uit. We put citizens on file, develop the police services, and sometimes the secret police. We hebben de geheime politie die destijds mensen vervolgd en gefolterd heeft, min of meer getolereerd. We more or less tolerated the secret police, who at that time were working against people and torturing people. Betreft: Overeenkomst EU-VS betreffende uitwijzingen, geheime politie-acties en het afluisteren van communicatie Subject: EU-USA agreement on deportations, secret police operations and communications surveillance

A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods including intimidation, violence, and surveillance

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