Civil Guard

Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

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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:

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 (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