English-Portuguese translations for secret police

• polícia secreta
  A actuação da polícia secreta também causa profunda preocupação. The role of the secret police, too, gives real cause for concern.
  Fazemos fichas dos cidadãos, desenvolvemos os serviços de polícia e, por vezes, de polícia secreta. We put citizens on file, develop the police services, and sometimes the secret police.
  Tolerámos mais ou menos a polícia secreta que, naquela época, actuava contra as pessoas e as 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