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As with the Guardia di Finanza but in contrast to the Polizia di Stato, the Carabinieri are a military force. As the fourth branch of the Italian Armed Forces , they come under the authority of the Ministry of Defence ; for activities related to inland public order and security, they functionally depend on the Ministry of the Interior .
Army general Giuseppe Thaon di Revel di Sant'Andrea, first Commanding General of the Carabinieri (1814). This article lists the commanding generals of the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie and a law enforcement agency of Italy. [1]
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]
212th Carabinieri Section; 181st Field Post Office; Division Services; Attached to the division: [1] DCIV Coastal Battalion; Armored Train 152/3/T, in Crotone (4x 152/40 naval guns, 4x 20/77 Scotti anti-aircraft guns; [5] transferred to the 214th Coastal Division on 1 July 1943)
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 tracks its origins back to the XII Carabinieri Brigade, which until 2001 grouped the specialist police units of the Carabinieri. [3] On 1 February 2001, with the elevation of the Carabinieri to the rank of autonomous Armed Force (i.e. with an equal status to the Army, Navy and Air Force), the XII Brigate was elevated to the rank of Division.
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.
The Carabinieri is a corp of Gendarmerie with both (civil and military) law-and-order police duties, military police, and military peacekeeping and war-fighting capabilities. The Carabinieri has its own special forces in the form of the Gruppo di Intervento Speciale or the Special Intervention Group.