{{wiktionary|guardia civil}} '''Civil Guard''' refers to various policing organisations:
== Current == * Civil Guard (Spain), Spanish national gendarmerie force founded in 1844. * Garda Síochána, Irish national police force 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
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Category:Types of military forces Category:Gendarmerie