security police

noun

1. a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.

2. a police force concerned with detecting and preventing enemy espionage.

3. secret police.

Word History and Origins

Origin of security police¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Homeland Security police forces have been given a green light to roll through the streets of America’s cities and towns like a conquering army.

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Department of Homeland Security police officers had asked protesters to keep vehicle paths clear earlier in the morning, but their commands over a loudspeaker were often drowned out by protesters’ chants.

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The inquiry also heard about a number of failings or near misses in the way security, police, paramedics and the media responded to the attack.

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“They rolled up once or twice and threatened to close us down, arrest us — the usual bully tactics of security police anywhere in the world,” Fugard said.

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He said it quickly dawned on him “because parades usually have barricades, security, police and some sort of organisation” and he could see no evidence of that, just “vast amounts of people”.

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