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Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations:

Current

Civil Guard (Spain), Spanish national gendarmerie force founded in 1844.
Garda Síochána, Irish national police force founded in 1922.
Civil Guard (Israel), Israeli volunteer police reserve.
Municipal Civil Guard (Brazil), Municipal law enforcement corporations in Brazil.

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 (Laos), a Laotian militia organized by the anti-French Lao Issara nationalists between 1945-46.
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.