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Carabinieri in everyday ordinary uniform, winter version. Note the pistol worn on the left side for cross-draw purposes and the white cross-belt. (March 2015) The modern Carabinieri Force uniform is coloured in black for every seasonal version, with small variations on weather basis (coat or wind jacket), and is composed of:
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.
Italian forces also command a multinational engineer task force and have deployed a platoon of Carabinieri military police. The Italian Army did not take part in combat operations of the 2003 Iraq War , dispatching troops only when major combat operations were declared over by the U.S. President George W. Bush .
The Carabinieri is currently a branch of armed forces (alongside the Army, Navy and Air Force), thus ending their long standing role as the Prima Arma dell'Esercito (First Corps of the Army). [citation needed] It is likely that antonomasia by which the Carabinieri will continue to be referred will remain the Arma. [clarification needed]
The Battalion was established on 2 May 1920 as the Mobile Carabinieri Battalion of Florence. By force of the Royal Decree of 20 April 1920, no. 451, the Mobile Carabinieri Battalion of Florence was established among eighteen Autonomous Mobile Battalions. [2] pp. 279–280. The Mobile Carabinieri Battalion of Florence was organized on:
The Carabinieri's section of Special Intervention Group (Italian: Gruppo di Intervento Speciale, abbreviated as GIS) is an anti-terrorism unit founded in 1978. The color of the uniform utilized by this élite force is usually the dark blue, even though mimetic and desert variations exist. [ 69 ]
It was formed by carabinieri on horseback reassigned to the force from Carabinieri Legions assigned in Florence, Milan and Bologna. [1] They were organized into a company – today a British cavalry squadron – of 80 carabinieri; each wearing a black dragoon helmet with crest and a black breastplate with a cross on the chest, white suede ...
The Carabinieri Mobile Units Division (Italian: Divisione Unità Mobili Carabinieri) is the Carabinieri formation, established in 2001, dedicated to the performance of military duties abroad, the military police tasks when abroad, the support to Territorial Organization, the participation in civil protection operations and to ensure the emergency reserve for the General Command.