# Civil Guard

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'''Civil Guard''' refers to various policing organisations:

== Current ==
* [Civil Guard (Spain)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Spain)), Spanish national gendarmerie force founded in 1844.
* [Garda Síochána](/source/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na), Irish national police force founded in 1922.
* [Civil Guard (Israel)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Israel)), Israeli volunteer police reserve.
* [Municipal Civil Guard (Brazil)](/source/Municipal_Guards), Municipal law enforcement corporations in Brazil.

Historic Civil Guards now abolished:
*''[Gardes Civiles Indigenes](/source/Gardes_Civiles_Indigenes)'', fully armed and equipped, and full time paramilitary forces raised in some French colonies for service in that colony.
* ''[Garde Civique](/source/Garde_Civique)'' of Belgium, a historic militia maintained until 1914.
* [Civil Guard (Costa Rica)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Costa_Rica)), fully merged into the Fuerza Pública.
* [Civil Guard (Peru)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Peru)), police force of Peru in 1924.
* [Civil Guard (Colombia)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Colombia)), created in 1902. 
* [Civil Guard (El Salvador)](/source/Civil_Guard_(El_Salvador)), created in 1867, which then gave way to the [National Guard](/source/National_Guard_(El_Salvador)) in 1912.
* [Civil Guard (Honduras)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Honduras)), a militarized police commanded directly by President [Ramón Villeda Morales](/source/Ram%C3%B3n_Villeda_Morales).
* [Civil Guard Association for a Better Future](/source/Civil_Guard_Association_for_a_Better_Future), Hungarian anti-Roma organization.
* [Civil Guard (Panama)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Panama)) (abolished)
* [Civil Guard (Philippines)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Philippines)), a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities.
* [Civil Guard (Laos)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Laos)), a Laotian militia organized by the anti-French [Lao Issara](/source/Lao_Issara) nationalists between 1945-46.
* [Civil Guard (South Vietnam)](/source/Civil_Guard_(South_Vietnam)), merged into the [South Vietnamese Popular Force](/source/South_Vietnamese_Popular_Force) and the South Vietnamese Regional Force.
* [Gwardya Sibil](/source/Gwardya_Sibil) (Philippine resistance network), a civilian underground network operating during World War II.
* [Suojeluskunta](/source/White_Guard_(Finland)), a Finnish militia for which "Civil Guard" is one of the many English translations.
* [Civil Guard (Zaire)](/source/Civil_Guard_(Zaire)), created in 1984 and disestablished in 1997.
* [National Civil Guard](/source/National_Civil_Guard) and the [People's Civil Guard](/source/People's_Civil_Guard), security forces of the [Communist Party of Greece](/source/Communist_Party_of_Greece) between 1944-45 and 1947-49 respectively.

==See also==
* [Civic Guard (disambiguation)](/source/Civic_Guard_(disambiguation))
* [Guard (disambiguation)](/source/Guard_(disambiguation))
* [Guardia (disambiguation)](/source/Guardia_(disambiguation))
* [National Guard](/source/National_Guard)
* [Home Guard](/source/Home_Guard)

{{Set index article}}

Category:Types of military forces
Category:Gendarmerie

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