Usually means: Covert agency enforcing government authority.
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  1. secret police: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. secret police, the secret police: Merriam-Webster
  3. secret police: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. secret police: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. secret police: Collins English Dictionary
  6. secret police: Vocabulary.com
  7. secret-police: Wordnik
  8. secret police: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. secret police: Wiktionary
  10. secret police: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. secret police: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. secret police: Dictionary.com
  13. Secret Police (film), Secret Police, Secret police: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. secret police: Rhymezone
  15. secret police: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. secret police: FreeDictionary.org
  17. secret police: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. secret police: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. secret police: Encyclopedia

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  1. secret police: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (secret police)

noun:  A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods including intimidation, violence, and surveillance.

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