Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

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Civil Guard (Spain) The Civil Guard ( es, Guardia Civil, link=no; ) is the oldest law enforcement agency in Spain and is one of two national police forces. As a national gendarmerie force, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the au ...

, Spanish gendarmerie *

Civil Guard (Israel) The Civil Guard ( he, המשמר האזרחי, Ha-Mishmar Ha-ʿEzraḥi), abbreviated in Hebrew as Mash'az (משא"ז) is a volunteer organization of Israeli citizens which assists in daily police work. It is a subdivision of the Israel Poli ...

, Israeli volunteer police reserve * Civil Guard (Brazil), Municipal law enforcement corporations in Brazil Historic Civil Guards now abolished: * ''

Garde Civique The ''Garde Civique'' or ''Burgerwacht'' (French and Dutch; "Civic Guard") was a Belgian paramilitary militia which existed between 1830 and 1920. Created in October 1830 shortly after the Belgian Revolution, the Guard amalgamated the various ...

'' of Belgium, a historic militia maintained until 1914 *

Civil Guard (Costa Rica) Civil Guard (Spanish: ''Guardia Civil'') of Costa Rica was a gendarmerie type force responsible for both limited national defense and internal security missions. The Guardia Civil was the largest branch of the Fuerza Pública (Public Force) and ...

, fully merged into the Fuerza Pública *

Civil Guard (Peru) , mottotranslated = Honor is its badge , formedyear = 1873 , formedmonthday = December 31 , preceding1 = , dissolved = December 6, 1988) until its complete incorporation to the National Police of Peru in 1991. , superseding ...

, 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 National Guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards. Nat ...

in 1912 * Civil Guard (Honduras), a militarized police commanded directly by President Ramón Villeda Morales *

Civil Guard Association for a Better Future The Civil Guard Association for a Better Future ( hu, Szebb Jövőért Polgárőr Egyesület) is a Hungarian militant organisation involved in Anti-Romanyism, anti-Roma activities in areas such as the town of Gyöngyöspata in early 2011, where the ...

, Hungarian anti-Roma organization * Civil Guard (Panama) (abolished) *

Civil Guard (Philippines) The Civil Guard in the Philippines ( es, Guardia Civil en las Filipinas, ) was the branch of the Spanish Civil Guard organized under the Captaincy General of the Philippines and a component of the Spanish Army. It was disbanded after the Spani ...

, a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities * Civil Guard (South Vietnam), merged into the

South Vietnamese Popular Force The South Vietnamese Popular Force ( vi, nghĩa quân, PF) (originally the Self-Defense Corps) was a part-time local militia of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) during the Vietnam War. The South Vietnamese Popular Force mainly protected ...

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) The Zairian Civil Guard (french: Garde civile zaïroise) was a militarised police force in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), created to support the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. History The unit was created in 1984,See Ordonnance-lo ...

, created in 1984 and disestablished in 1997 *

National Civil Guard The National Civil Guard ( el, Εθνική Πολιτοφυλακή, ''Ethniki Politophylaki'') was the security force of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA), the government that the National Liberation Front (EAM) had establish ...

and the People's Civil Guard, security forces of the

Communist Party of Greece The Communist Party of Greece ( el, Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, ''Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas'', KKE) is a political party in Greece. Founded in 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece and adopted its curre ...

between 1944-45 and 1947-49 respectively

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