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Polizia di Stato on duty in Piazza di Spagna, Rome, in 2007. The Polizia di Stato (State Police) is the civil national police of Italy. Along with patrolling, investigative and law enforcement duties, it patrols the Autostrade (Italy's Express Highway network), and oversees the security of railways, bridges, and waterways.
The Polizia Penitenziaria (in English, "Penitentiary Police"), formally the Corpo di Polizia Penitenziaria, is a law enforcement agency in Italy which is subordinate to the Italian Ministry of Justice and operates the Italian prison system as corrections officers.
Interpol summarizes this force (part of the Ministry of Defence) as having a "nationwide remit for crime investigations. It also serves as the military police for the Italian armed forces and can be called upon for national defence action." [28]
Last year Italian courts convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy's 'ndrangheta organized crime syndicate. In ...
An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of two Americans accused of killing an Italian police officer in 2019, but further reduced their terms from the original life sentences ...
Law enforcement operations against organized crime in Italy (2 P) M. ... Police misconduct in Italy (4 P) Italian police officers (2 C, 30 P) Prisons in Italy (1 C, 9 P)
The Italian parliament has approved a law to improve conditions in the country's overcrowded prisons amid a spike in suicides among inmates. Chronic overcrowding and understaffing have combined ...
The Polizia di Stato (State Police or P.S.) is one of the national police forces of Italy.Alongside the Carabinieri, it is the main police force for providing police duties, primarily to cities and large towns, and with its child agencies it is also responsible for highway patrol (), railways (ferrovie), airports (aeroporti), customs (together with the Guardia di Finanza), as well as certain ...