secret police

1. 1.

   a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)

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Questions about secret police

What does secret police mean?

secret police means "a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)".

Is secret police a common word?

secret police is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.