Secret police

Secret police (sometimes political police) are a police agency which operates in secrecy and beyond the law to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian political regime. Instead of transparently enforcing the rule of law and being subject to public scrutiny as ordinary police agencies do, secret police organizations are specifically intended to operate beyond and above the law in order to suppress political dissen... More

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