gensdarme

A Japanese gensdarme made a preliminary investigation in company with the man; then returning to the Japanese barracks, declared that he could find no one in authority; that his attempts at discovering the culprits had been resisted; and that he must have help.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

It is easily understood how three years of the gensdarme regime, sanctified by the regime of the clergyman, was bound to demoralize unripe masses.

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850

In Paris and the large towns, the reaction itself carries the physiognomy of its own epoch; it irritates more than it cows; in the country, it becomes low, moan, petty, tiresome, vexatious, -- in a word, it becomes "gensdarme."

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850