Stapo
Stapo is an abbreviation for:
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State police , generally the police of a state, in German-speaking countries this term is usually associated with a higher-level police unit
- Secret State Police , also known as Gestapo for short , was a criminal police authority and the political police during the Nazi era (1933-1945)
- City police , a communal institution which, depending on the country, carries out police tasks, mostly it implements communal law, but occasionally also overriding law
StaPo is an abbreviation for:
- Austrian State Police Service (StaPo), was the forerunner of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter-Terrorism until 2002, the domestic secret service of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, see State Police # Austria