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:

    “The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)