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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.
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.
The institution is usually referred to as Policía Bonaerense, where bonaerense is the demonym for the Province of Buenos Aires. This contrasts with porteño, used for the inhabitants of the Buenos Aires city. This police force is subordinate to the Provincial Ministry of Security headed by Javier Alonso. [3]
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 Buenos Aires police have released a statement on Liam Payne's cause of death after falling from a hotel balcony.
In the Buenos Aires Provincial Police force alone, there were 13,619 police officers investigated for acts of corruption, violence, and/or irregularities between 2008 and 2009 according to the General Auditing Office of Internal Affairs. [3]
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 ...
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 ...