English-Spanish translations for secret police

policía secretaEl papel de la policía secreta también es un motivo real de preocupación. The role of the secret police, too, gives real cause for concern. Recopilamos fichas de nuestros ciudadanos, desarrollamos los servicios policiales e, incluso, a veces, la policía secreta. We put citizens on file, develop the police services, and sometimes the secret police. Más o menos toleramos la existencia de una policía secreta que actuaba contra los ciudadanos, torturándolos. We more or less tolerated the secret police, who at that time were working against people and torturing people.

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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