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Since the Guardia Civil must accommodate the families of its "guardias", it was the first police force in Europe that accommodated a same-sex partner in a military installation. The symbol of the Guardia Civil consists of the Royal Crown of Spain, a sword and a fasces. The different units have variations of this symbol.
The Academia de Suboficiales de la Guardia Civil (ASGC, English: Academy of NCOs of the Civil Guard) is a training center belonging to the Guardia Civil. [1] It is located in San Lorenzo de El Escorial ( Madrid ), where training is given in security, technical and military subjects for enlisted personnel joining the non-commissioned officers of ...
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 ...
Gardes Civiles Indigenes, fully armed and equipped, and full time paramilitary forces raised in some French colonies for service in that colony. Garde Civique of Belgium, a historic militia maintained until 1914. Civil Guard (Costa Rica), fully merged into the Fuerza Pública. Civil Guard (Peru), police force of Peru in 1924.
The Policía Armada (English: Armed Police), conventional long names Cuerpo de Policía Armada y de Tráfico (English: Armed and Traffic Police Corps) and Fuerzas de Policía Armada (English: Armed Police Forces), —popularly known as los grises (English: the grey ones) owing to the color of their uniforms— was an armed urban police force of ...
The Civil Guard Information Service (Spanish: Servicio de Información de la Guardia Civil, SIGC) is an intelligence service within the Spanish Civil Guard responsible for the collection, analysis and distribution of information relevant to domestic security, as well as its exploitation or operational use, especially in matters of counterterrorism, both nationally and internationally.
Even before the time of the first monarch of Spain, the Catholic Monarchs formed the Guardias Viejas de Castilla ("Old Guards of Castile"). Later on, the first monarch of Spain, Charles V ordered that a company of those guards to reside and continuously stand guard in his palace, denominating it Los Cien Continos ("The Continuous Hundred").
The Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela (Spanish: Guardia Nacional Bolivariana de Venezuela - GNB), is a gendarmerie component of the National Armed Forces of Venezuela. The national guard can serve as gendarmerie, perform civil defense roles, or serve as a reserve light infantry force.