Civil Guard

Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

Current

• Civil Guard (Spain), Spanish gendarmerie
• Civil Guard (Israel), Israeli volunteer police reserve
• 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

See also

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