Civil Guard

Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

Current

• Civil Guard (Spain), Spanish gendarmerie founded in 1844.
• Garda Síochána, Irish police founded in 1922.
• Civil Guard (Israel), Israeli volunteer police reserve.
• Municipal Civil Guard (Brazil), Municipal law enforcement corporations in Brazil.

Historic Civil Guards now abolished:

• Gardes Civiles Indigenes, fully armed and equipped, and full time paramilitary forces raised in some French colonies for service in that colony.
• Garde Civique of Belgium, a historic militia maintained until 1914.
• Civil Guard (Costa Rica), fully merged into the Fuerza Pública.
• Civil Guard (Peru), police force of Peru in 1924.
• Civil Guard (Colombia), created in 1902.
• Civil Guard (El Salvador), created in 1867, which then gave way to the National Guard in 1912.
• Civil Guard (Honduras), a militarized police commanded directly by President Ramón Villeda Morales.
• Civil Guard Association for a Better Future, Hungarian anti-Roma organization.
• Civil Guard (Panama) (abolished)
• Civil Guard (Philippines), a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities.
• Civil Guard (Laos), a Laotian militia organized by the anti-French Lao Issara nationalists between 1945-46.
• Civil Guard (South Vietnam), merged into the South Vietnamese Popular Force and the South Vietnamese Regional Force.
• Gwardya Sibil (Philippine resistance network), a civilian underground network operating during World War II.
• Suojeluskunta, a Finnish militia for which "Civil Guard" is one of the many English translations.
• Civil Guard (Zaire), created in 1984 and disestablished in 1997.
• National Civil Guard and the People's Civil Guard, security forces of the Communist Party of Greece between 1944-45 and 1947-49 respectively.

See also

• Civic Guard (disambiguation)
• Guard (disambiguation)
• Guardia (disambiguation)
• National Guard
• Home Guard