Stapo

Stapo is an abbreviation for:

• 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

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.