secret police

noun

: a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of its government often with terroristic methods

Examples of secret police in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

According to his official biography, he was tortured in detention at the hands of the SAVAK, the notorious secret police. —Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026

Rioters were trashing and burning Tehran in opposition to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, while the Shah's secret police, SAVAK, arrested the major opposition figure who was about to call on Pahlavi to leave Iran to make way for a democratic Islamic state. —Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026

The White House has built a massive secret police force tasked with ethnic cleansing. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026

So now Newsom has a choice — back new legislation by Wiener that does not exempt state forces, or take a pass on the profoundly important and real possibility of curbing secret police in America. —Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1823, in the meaning defined above

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Kids Definition

secret police

noun

: a police organization operating mostly in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of its government and often using methods of terrorists