Yet our own extensive internal political police maintained exactly this sort of obsessive surveillance on millions of Americans.
The stay-at-home militia tended then to perform the important role of the internal police to keep order.
A State Commission investigated the situation, and its report concluded that work conditions had to improve and the internal police ceased to exist.
Gorsky joined the Soviet secret police in 1928 and worked in the internal political police.
One experiment nearly resulted in his arrest by the internal police.
The Committee of General Security began to manage the country's internal police.
The result has been the takeover of the government by a combination of corrupt oligarchs, the internal police and the army.
Most other Federal internal police officers are content to audit and report quietly to their superiors about small irregularities.
The hospital at Camden was by Gen. Greene's order protected, although it had an armed guard for its internal police.
