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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 Division directs, controls, and coordinates its own units, which carry out tasks related to the protection of Italian artistic heritage, to the currency protection, to the protection of Italian embassies abroad, to the health protection, to the labour policing, to Bank of Italy needs, to the Carabinieri forensics police services.
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 ...
Officers [7] [8]. There are about 3,250 officers in the Guardia di Finanza. Officer cadets for the general and aeronaval branches are recruited through competitive examinations open to Italian citizens, not over 22 years of age, with a high school diploma giving access to university studies.
In Italy, polizia municipale, vigili urbani and polizia locale are police of the various comuni (municipalities).. They are, in effect, the local police and work alongside the Ministry of Interior's Polizia di Stato the Ministry of Justice's Polizia Penitenziaria, the Ministry of Defence's Carabinieri, the Ministry of Finance's Guardia di Finanza and other emergency services.
An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of two American men in the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation but reduced their sentences.
The Guardia di Finanza (Italian: [ˈɡwardja di fiˈnantsa]; G. di F. or GdF; English: Financial Police or Financial Guard) is an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the minister of economy and finance. It is a militarized police force, forming a part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, not the Ministry of Defence.
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