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The Guardia Civil as a police force, has had additional tasks given to it in addition to its traditional role. The Spanish Civil Guard patrol ship Rio Segura moored in Dakar, Senegal, during the counternarcotics and proliferation exercise Saharan Express on March 8, 2014. It is the largest police force in Spain, in terms of area served.
The need to create a rural agency that gave security to the fields and roads of Spain was evident in the first half of the 19th century. The confiscation processes of the mentioned century, the fractionation of rural property, the dissolution of the National Militia and the political vicissitudes and continuous changes of government were some of the causes that led to the birth of the Civil ...
Law enforcement in Spain is carried out by numerous organizations, not all of which operate in the same areas. The Guardia Civil (Civil Guard) is the national gendarmerie force and therefore has a military status. It patrols the entire national territory (including highways and ports), except for those areas that belong to the National Police ...
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José Miguel Vega Rodríguez (19 December 1913 in Ceuta – 30 May 1992 in Madrid) was a Spanish military officer. He served in numerous positions, most notably as President of the Supreme Council of Military Justice, Chief of Staff of the Army and Director General of the Civil Guard. Additionally, he served as the last colonial governor of Ifni.
This article lists the directors general of the Civil Guard, the national gendarmerie and a law enforcement agency of Spain. The Director General is the official of the Ministry of the Interior who commands the Civil Guard, and heads the Directorate-General of the Civil Guard.
The Central Operative Unit (Spanish: Unidad Central Operativa, UCO) is a specialized division of the Civil Guard of Spain responsible for the investigation and prosecution of the most serious forms of crime and organized crime, whether national or international, as well as support to the Territorial Units of Judicial Police, that, due to lack of personnel or resources, or because the criminal ...
The Spanish armed forces are a professional force with a strength in 2017 of 121,900 active personnel and 4,770 reserve personnel. The country also has the 77,000 strong Civil Guard which comes under the control of the Ministry of defense in times of a national emergency. The Spanish defense budget is 5.71 billion euros (US$7.2 billion) a 1% ...