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The Buenos Aires City Police (Spanish: Policía de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires) is the municipal police force of Buenos Aires. It began operation in 2017 following the merger of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police and the city's division of the Argentine Federal Police. The force is composed of over 25,000 officers.
Federal officers during the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in Buenos Aires. In Argentina, the most important law enforcement organization is the Argentine Federal Police with jurisdiction in all Argentine territory. Most routine police work is carried out by provincial/state police forces.
Until January 2005, the Buenos Aires Police used the same rank system as employed by the Federal Police and other Argentine provincial police forces. This system consisted of seventeen ranks, of which nine were for (commissioned) officers and eight were for sub-officers (including the basic rank of agent).
The history of this police force can be traced to 1580, when the founder of Buenos Aires, Captain Juan de Garay, established a local militia for defense against potential Native American raids. The Policía de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Police) operated for the first three hundred years up to 1880, when the Federalization of Buenos Aires ...
Buenos Aires police have raided the hotel where One Direction singer Liam Payne died after falling from his room balcony. Personnel from the Special Investigations Division went to the Casa Sur ...
The case of Simón Radowitzky, an anarchist who was transferred to Ushuaia in 1911 after assassinating the Buenos Aires police chief in the aftermath of violent clashes between police and labor ...
The Metropolitan Police was the police force under the authority of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires until it merged with the city's division of the Argentine Federal Police by creating the Buenos Aires City Police in 2017. [2] The force was created in 2010 and is composed of 1,850 officers, and is planned to expand to 16,000. Security in ...
Buenos Aires police have arrested former Red Brigade member Leonardo Bertulazzi who was wanted by the Italian justice system for crimes committed as part of the far-left guerrilla group, the ...