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Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:
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 (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