Civil Guard

Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

Current:

  • Civil Guard (Spain): The Spanish gendarmerie
  • Civil Guard (Israel): An Israeli volunteer police reserve

Historic Civil Guards now abolished:

  • Civil Guard (Costa Rica): fully merged into the Fuerza Pública (Public Force)
  • Civil Guard (Peru), formed as main preventive police force of Peru in 1924, later became General Police which in 1988 merged into new National Police
  • Civil Guard (Colombia), created in 1902
  • Civil Guard (El Salvador), created in 1867, which then gave way to the Guardia Nacional in 1912.
  • Civil Guard (Honduras), a militarized police commanded directly by president Ramon Villeda Morales rather than the chief of the armed forces created in 1957
  • Civil Guard (Panama) (abolished)
  • Civil Guard (Philippines), a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities including a contingent of indigenous soldiers. Disbanded after the Spanish-American war of 1898, now being reestablished in the city of Ozamiz . In the Intramuros district of Manila, security forces are dressed in guardia civil uniforms .
  • Civil Guard (South Vietnam) renamed the Regional Force
  • Gwardya Sibil (Philippine resistance network), a civilian underground network operating during World War II to gather intelligence on the activities of the Japanese invaders.
  • Suojeluskunta, a Finnish militia for which "Civil Guard" is one of the many English translations.

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or guard:

    “[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    “I loved. And a man will guard when he loves.
    Their white-gowned democracy was my fair lady.
    With her knife lying cold, straight, in the softness of her sweet-flowing sleeve.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)