English-French translations for secret police

• police secrète
  Le rôle de la police secrète est aussi une véritable source d'inquiétude. The role of the secret police, too, gives real cause for concern.
  On fiche les citoyens, on développe les services de police et, quelque fois, de police secrète. We put citizens on file, develop the police services, and sometimes the secret police.
  Nous avons plus ou moins toléré la police secrète, qui travaillait à l'époque contre le peuple et le torturait. We more or less tolerated the secret police, who at that time were working against people and torturing people.

Definition of secret police

• 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

Related words

• secret report
• secret of Polichinelle
• hyposecretion
• secretaire en portefeuille