English-Italian translations for secret police

• polizia segreta
  Anche il ruolo della polizia segreta è motivo concreto di apprensione. The role of the secret police, too, gives real cause for concern.
  Schediamo i cittadini, sviluppiamo gli organi di polizia e a volte la polizia segreta. We put citizens on file, develop the police services, and sometimes the secret police.
  Ci siamo mostrati più o meno tolleranti nei confronti della polizia segreta, che a quei tempi attaccava la gente e la torturava. 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