Militsiya
（重定向自Militsia）
![Soviet and Russian breastplates, from top left to right bottom: Soviet Druzhinnik badge, Soviet Metropolitan Post Militia (PPS), Soviet State Automobile Inspection (GAI), State Automobile Inspection (GAI) of the Russian Federation, Russian Moscow Municipal Militia Central District, and Russian Police.](/Images/godic/202501/27/Soviet_russian_badges4856.jpg")
![Soviet Militsiya officer's cap cockade (service/parade version).](/Images/godic/202501/27/Советская_кокарда_Militsiya_officer's_cap_cockade4856.jpg")
![A Lada 2106 belonging to the Armenian State Automobile Inspection parked on a street in Yerevan, June 2007.](/Images/godic/202501/27/VAZ-2106_police_car_in_Yerevan,_Armenia4856.jpg")
![A Russian GAI inspector with a radar gun on the side of MKAD](/Images/godic/202501/27/Gai_radar4856.jpg")
Militsiya (Russian:мили́ция;IPA: [mʲɪˈlʲitsɨjə], Belarusian:міліцыя, Armenian:միլիցիա [militsʰja], Kyrgyz:милиция, Lithuanian:milicija, Polish:milicja, Romanian:miliția, Slovene:milica , Tajik:милитсия, Ukrainian:міліція, Uzbek:militsiya or милиция), often confused with militia, is used as an official name of the civilian police in several former communist states. The term was used in the Soviet Union and several Warsaw Pact countries, as well as in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia, and it is still commonly used in some of the individual former Soviet republics and eastern Europe.