In recent years the domestic security budget, which includes money for things like police, secret police, courts and paramilitary troops, has exceeded the official military budget.

近年来，国内安全预算(包括用于警察、秘密警察、法院和武警方面的经费)已经超过了官方军费预算。

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The Topography memorial is built around the ruins of buildings where the Gestapo secret police, the SS and the Reich Security Main Office ran Hitler's police state from 1933 to 1945.

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Mr Zhou was party secretary at the ministry of public security from 2002-07, before becoming the Politburo's man in charge of domestic security—secret police and all.

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Mohammed Fahim, the powerful Tajik defence minister, is said to be under pressure to lessen his grip on the country's security apparatus, and in particular, the National Security Directorate (NSD), the secret police.

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