General Command of the Royal Carabinieri (Kingdom of Italy)

In the Kingdom of Italy, the overall management of the public security services is assigned to the Prefects appointed by the government (both at the top of the Directorate General and locally, in the provincial governments), but general and overall responsibility for the execution of the service is entrusted to civilian officials of public security, and finally the executive service is entrusted to a military corps. Therefore, the technical part of the administration of public security is the most important, although Prefects still retain a significant influence and guidance positions.
The Prefect is the highest authority of Public Security in the provinces and, with regard to the functions of the police, he may adopt the necessary measures for the protection of public order and public security. Prefects have functional superiority, besides being higher in rank, compared to the officials of Public Security. They, however, unlike Prefects, are policemen to all intents and purposes, whose shoulders the direction of public security services rests on. The Quaestor exercises the technical direction of all police services and public order in the provincial constituency. He belongs to the civilian personnel of Public Security.
In carrying out their activities the Quaestor and other civilian officials of Public Security are assisted by military personnel of the Royal Police Corps, which is under the Ministry of Interior and part of the armed forces of the state, therefore being subject to the military law of peace and war, and, in the case of violations, judged by military courts.
Each of the components (Prefects, Officials, Civilian personnel, and Military) follows its own rules of reference with regard to disciplinary measures, professional training, remuneration and career prospects. The civilian components (especially the Prefect Corps) are favoured, while the military component, except for the officers, is the most disadvantaged.
As of 2018, the overall strength of the Administration of Public Security is 242,483. These numbers include the Royal Police Corps, the Royal Carabinieri, and the Coast Guard, as well as Public Security civilian officials and support personnel, but exclude provincial Prefects and other security organisations such as Local Police, the M.V.S.N., and the Royal Guard of Finance.

Mission

Organisational chart of the public security establishment in the Kingdom of Italy.

The main and foremost function and mission of the whole public security apparatus, led by the central administration, is to protect the public order and security, to protect the individual citens' security, legitimate interests and properties and to provide rescue for those who are in jeopardy. In case of necessity, the public security apparatus, through the lawfully pre-determined bodies, is entlited to issue decisions on or propose the suspension or termination of operations of agencies, organisations or individuals which are detrimental to public order and security; to requisition means of transport, communication equipments and other technical means of agencies, organisations, individuals and operators or users of such means according to the provisions of law. These functions are carried out almost exclusively by the Administration of Public Security (with the contribution of the Central Security Office and Party armed forces).
Functions of the whole apparatus of Public Security include taking part to protect the Duce and the State, protecting life and properties of the Italian people, to contribute to protect high-ranking leading officials of the Party and the State and foreign guests, to contribute to safeguard important events, targets and key projects of national security, foreign representative offices, representatives of Italy-based international organisations, individuals holding or closely related to state secrets. These functions are carried in conjunction by the public security apparatus and by the M.V.S.N. (and its branches).
Other functions include advising the Party and the State on protection of national security and maintenance of social order and security, performing the unified management in protection and maintenance of social order and security, preventing and fighting against crimes of all types and violations of law on national security as well as social order and safety. In order to carry out such duties, the Directorate-General of Public Security is tasked to collect information, analyze, evaluate and predict situation and propose the Party and the State to promulgate and direct the implementation of guidelines, policies, laws and strategies on protection and maintenance of public order and security. Such pieces of information, because their vastity and diversity, are collected by the whole Directorate-General and by all its Divisions, each according the relevant information required. Such functions, mainly the information gathering, are carried out by the Public Security apparatus as well as by the O.V.R.A., the intelligence branch of the M.V.S.N.

General Command

Coat of arms of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri

The General Command of the Royal Carabinieri is the Carabinieri department that deals with directing, coordinating and controlling all the activities of the corps, with particular attention to the operational activities carried out by the departments and those of analysis of criminal phenomena. It also maintains relations with the central organs of the public administration, for all that does not concern the military tasks.

Commandant-General

The Commandant-General of the Royal Carabinieri is an officer of the Royal Carabinieri who, at the time of his appointment, holds the rank of General of the Army Corps. He is appointed by decree of the Duce, on the proposal of the Minister of National Defence, after hearing the Chief of General Staff of Defence, on which he depends.
Within the Royal Carabinieri, the Commandant-General is hierarchically superior to all the General Officers and, in case of absence, impediment or vacation of the office, is replaced by the Deputy Commandant-General.
The Commandant-General of the Royal Carabinieri commands and is responsible for the Royal Carabinieri, is responsible for organizing and preparing the Royal Carabinieri and proposes to the Chief of the General Defence Staff the program relating to the Royal Carabinieri for the purpose of general interforce planning. The Commandant-General is a member of the National Committee of Public Order and Security and of the General Council for the Fight against Organized Crime.

Powers in the operational, training and logistics fields

The Commandant-General is the central security body of the Royal Carabinieri and, based on the directives of the Chief of General Staff of Defence, identifies the departments and personnel to be used for the performance of military police tasks and participation in national defence and ensures availability, formulates proposals for operational planning. determines the implementation modalities of the mobilization and the entity of the relative stocks and defines the training activity and exercises the functions of operative command for the operations and the exercises of the Carabinieri, is responsible for organizing and preparing unit and departments for the accomplishment of military and police tasks.
The Commandant-General determines the ordering, the territorial circumscriptions, the organisms and the operating modalities of the commands, departments, units, institutes and various bodies, determines the establishment or the suppression of fixed places or temporary stations, training of personnel, approves the publications of the Carabinieri.
The Commandant-General also determines the policies of employment of technical material, on the basis of the directives of the Chief of General Staff of Defence.

Division II - Confidential Affairs

Main article: Division II - Confidential Affairs (Kingdom of Italy)

The Confidential Affairs Division (It: Divisione II - Affari Riservati, D.AA.RR. or more commonly D.A.R.) is a central office of the Directorate-General of Public Security, stemming from the reorganization of the 1990s. This Division deals with domestic intelligence (also including offensive and proactive operations) and political police functions, without a territorial scope. Differently from Political Police Division, the D.AA.RR. is a pure intelligence-oriented internal organisation, officially restricted to dealing with information, while Division VII is an overt security apparatus and has operational and police roles (with territorialised functions). The fundamental characteristic of Division II is the centralization, both of the information and of the investigations and their management throughout the national territory. The leadership of the Confidential Affairs Division is usually given to a trusted senior police official, who is promoted to the Prefect rank for the specific purpose. While other Divisional heads may report to other officials outside the Administration of Public Security, the head of Division II reports only to the Chief of Police, the Minister of Interior and to the Duce; information acquired by the Division is filtered throught Division VII - Political Police and then shared with other security services. The D.AA.RR. ensures the indispensable contribution of a general and preventive intelligence, capable of integrating the investigative activities, and conducted by police forces and specialized structures such as the U.C.S.
It is to note that personnel assigned to Division II from the remaining Administration of P.S. do not retain the capacity of Judicial Police Agent or Judicial Police Officer.
The D.A.R. organisation is based on functional criteria and includes several Sections, three multi-sectional Services, three Central Offices and a Central Political Database (It: Casellario Politico Centrale, C.P.C.). Clandestine provincial teams are directly employed by the Confidential Affairs Division, which also uses the "Foreigners Surveillance Offices" framed within Questure. Each Section handles its own informers, informants and sources.
Current Head of Division is Prefect, 1st Class Leonardo Nuvolone.

Deputy Commandant-General

The Deputy Commandant-General of the Royal Carabinieri exercises the vicarious functions in case of absence or impediment of the General Commander and assists him in carrying out the functions and tasks delegated, carries out inspections to the high commands of the Arma (by delegation of the Commandant-General) and presides over the ordinary commission of progress of the officers of the Carabinieri.
The Deputy Commandant-General is an Army Corps General in effective permanent service and is appointed by decree of the Duce, upon proposal of the Minister of National Defence, after hearing the Chief of General Staff of the Defence. The Deputy Commandant-General remains in office for a maximum duration of two years, unless in the meantime he must not cease from the actual permanent service due to age limits or to another cause provided for by law, and is hierarchically superior to the other general officers of the Royal Carabinieri.

Chief of Staff of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri

The Chief of Staff of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri is a Divisional General tasked of being the chief consultant and collaborator of the Commandant-General, on which he directly depends. He receives from the Commandant-General the directives for the activity to be carried out and directs the activities of the General Staff and defines, where necessary, the additional elements to translate the decisions of the General Commander into orders and plans.
As Chief of Staff, he represents the Commandant General and issues orders in his name, when authorized, and has some departments and units under his direct dependencies: Health and Administration Directorates, the Secretariat, the Autonomous Unit of the General Command and the Head of the Spiritual Assistance Service (military chaplains).

Administration Directorate

The Administration Department is employed by the Chief of Staff of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri Corps and has national territorial jurisdiction for all bodies and entities dependent on the same General Command.

Division XV - Police Health Service

The Division XV - Police Health Service is the administrative structure that directs and coordinates both civilian and military health activities. The Division head is the a Prefect, who previously held the position of Chief of Health Service of the Royal Police Corps (a Major General). Physicians of the Administration of Public Security may be civilian doctors, framed as medical officials, or medical officers, members of the Royal Police Corps.
Centrally, the Division is subdivided into:

• Section I - Health General Affairs;
• Section II - Psychology: the Section manages the work and health psychology, investigative psychology, forensic psychology and communication psychology;
• 3 Central Medical Institutes (Toxicology, Neurology and Medical Psychology, Preventive and Labour Medicine);
• Monitoring Centre for Labour Safety. All the central bodies are staffed with civilian and military personnel.

Peripheral organisation

The peripheral structure of the Division is complex and articulated according to a double chain of command. Every Interregional Directorate of Public Security has a Health Service Division (dependent on Division XV): the latter controls, directs and coordinates the Provincial Health Offices, which are part of the Questure, as well as the Interregional Police Hospitals. The Provincial Health Offices are in charge of both military and civilian personnel attached to the Questure, as well as of providing medical personnel to police investigations and to prefectorial tasks.
The Interregional Command of the Military Corps with Police Duties have their own Medical Sections, in charge of providing medical services to those military units of the Military Corps with Police Duties which are not framed into a mixed (military+civilian personnel) office. In addition to the unit medical assistance, the Interregional Command and its Health Section are in charge of providing (military) medical officers to the Joint Military Hospitals.
Current Head of Division is Director General of P.S. in charge of Special (Health) Office Quintilio Baracca.

Interregional Public Security Hospitals

The Interregional Public Security Hospitals carry out diagnostic activities, including specialist ones, statistical and epidemiological struggle activities and assessment of the assessment of the healthiness of the workplace. The diagnostic activities are aimed at assessing suitability for the service and promoting staff health. The Interregional Public Security Hospitals are directly reporting to the Health Service Divisions responsible for the territory.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri

The Deputy Chief of Staff assists the Chief of Staff in the performance of his duties and replaces him in case of temporary absence, impediment or vacancy of the office, provides for the delegated determination of spending commitments, directs the provision of expenditure items to of the Heads of the Department, presides and coordinates the activity of the working and study groups for the study of problems of primary interest to the Carabinieri. The Deputy Chief of Staff directly manages the National Recruitment Centre.

Staff of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri

The Staff of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri (Stato Maggiore del Comando Generale dei Reali Carabinieri) ist the executive organ tasked to apply general orders of the Commandant-General and general directives of other bodies. It is led by the Chief of Staff of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri and includes six Units:

• I Unit - Forces organization: competent in matters of organization, training, personnel management, as well as disciplinary and assistance;
• II Unit - Forces deployment: responsible for all operational activities;
• III Unit - Telematics: deals with IT, telecommunications, special armament and equipment issues;
• IV Unit - Logistical support of the forces: responsible for all support activities (procurement, supplies, repairs, maintenance and recovery);
• V Unit - External Relations and Propaganda;
• VI Unit - Planning, programming, budget and control: responsible for coordination of administrative and financial activities.

I Unit - Forces organization

The I Unit - Forces organization (I Reparto - Organizzazione delle Forze) deals with organization, training, personnel management, as well as with social assistance and disciplinary matters. The I Unit is subdivided into six Offices:

• Organization Office;
• Officers Office;
• Marshals Office;
• Troops Office;
• Training and Regulations Office;
• Personnel Assistance and Welfare Office.

Organization Office

Organization Office has jurisdiction in internal general affairs, support to general administration and coordination for the implementation of programs and projects. The Office is subdivided into eleven Sections:

• Section I - External Personnel: manages the issues of personnel of the prefectorial career, of personnel of the civil administration of the Interior and other civilian personnel assigned to the Directorate General of Public Security;
• Section II - Analysis: monitors the personnel needs of the central offices, and liaises with the National Fascist Party and with the Directorate General for the General Affairs and Personnel of the Ministry of Interior;
• Section III - Central transfers: assigns the personnel (both civil and military ones) to the central offices of the Directorate General
• Section IV - Viminale: manages access permits to the Viminale building and data related to the CC.RR. personnel assigned to the Directorate General;
• Section V - Prefectorial personnel: manages personnel of the prefectorial assigned to the Directorate-General of Public Security, with the exception of Provincial Authorities of Public Security;
• Section VI - General thematics Office: addresses problems and issues not addressed by other bodies;
• Section VII - Archives;
• Section VIII - Workplace: manages the healthiness of workplaces;
• Section IX - Data Security: ensures protection of personal data and their availability for political and security purposes only;
• Section X - Legislation: ensures technical support to the Minister of Interior, to the Chief of Government and to the Duce for regulation of the security sector;
• Section XI - Documentation.

In order to protect Public Security against criminal infiltration, the formal instrument is that of "environmental incompatibility for personnel", incompatibility which can be seen through informational activity and hierarchical control. An information activity is also carried out during enrollment and, in case of transfer, pre-emptive information is used to avoid incompatibility in the place of destination.

Section IX - Data Security

Office IX - Data Security ensures protection of personal data and their availability for political and security purposes only. The Office analyzes the risks of data processing, analyzes the impact of risks on police action and prepares the specific directives. The Office head is an official with the rank of Police Inspector or an officer with the rank of Colonel of the Royal Police Corps, with significant IT and telematic experience. Often office personnel comes from the Post Police Division.

Section XI - Documentation

The Section XI - Documentation deals with the reception and analysis of the document flow directed to the Directorate-General and the subsequent transmission to the competent Divisions and offices of the same level of the same Directorate-General and to the central and peripheral offices of the Administration of Public Security, provides fulfilments relating to the secretariats of the rest of the Directorate-General and, finally, it takes care of the organization of special security transfers.

Division III - Personnel of Public Security and Litigation

The P.S. Personnel Division directly manages the civilian public security and issue guidelines for the management of the Royal Police Corps personnel of all ranks. In particular, the Division issues guidelines on aspects regulated directions concerning the employment relationship and performs studies and counselling, manages the recruitment and internal selection procedures, deals with the procedures and events that affect the legal and economic status of the personnel, as well as with issues related to pensions and social security and takes care of litigation related to these activities, supporting the relevant bodies and offices.
The Division is one among the most important Divisions of the Directorate General and, given the large sums at its disposal, is frequently targeted by surveys, inspections, audits and investigations.
Due to its peculiar and dual nature, being a support Division and not an operational one, the structure is organised on seven Sections directly dependant on the Head of Division (a Prefect, 2nd Class), and on a Military Personnel Service (Servizio Personale Militare), headed by a C.P.R. Brigadier General, in charge of military personnel of the Royal Police Corps. In turn, the Brigadier General reports to both the Commandant General of the Royal Police Corps and to the head of Division III. Royal Carabinieri are subject to the National Defence Ministry.
Current Head of Division is Prefect, 2nd Class Rolando Ferrazza. The Officials of Public Security Advancement Commission directly depends on the Divisional Head.

Section I - General Affairs and Legal Affairs

Section I deals with the planning, design and implementation of programs and objectives related to personnel matters. The Section coordinates the activities of the other offices of the Division and contributes to the planning of the staffing of regional offices. It also manages the authorization procedures for recruitment of personnel. and prepares the opinions as to provide, the necessary administrative and regulatory norms concerning personnel issues. The consultancy is provided to all the other bodies of the Division, as well as the central and local offices of the Administration of Public Security.
Section I is subdivided into seven Offices: Planning, Coordination, Territorial Offices, Competitions, Consulting, Ideological Work and Regulations Offices.

Section II - Litigation

Section II deals with the discussion of judicial remedies with respect to the employment relationship in the fields of Legal Status, Courses, Competitions, Abusive Transfers, Disciplinary Proceedings, Social Security Claims, Compensation, and other issues. It also handles requests for legal protection for acts committed in service. Section II is subdivided into eleven offices: eight of them are dedicated to litigation against the personnel of the Administration of Public Security, two offices are dedicated to the requests for legal protection made by members of the Administration of Public Security (both civilian and military ones) and by members of the Royal Guard of Finance; Finally, an Office exists in order to compensate citizens who suffered non unjustifiable damage from police operations.

Section III - Access Competitions

Section III deals with the management of the competitions of the civilian staff of the Administration of Public Security. The Section is responsible for the decision of the requirements of the candidates, announcements of competitions and contests management themselves. With regard to military personnel, the Section is responsible for providing advice and support, but it is not directly involved.
The Section is subdivided into four offices: A-Group Personnel Office, C-Group Personnel Office, Documentation and Counselling Office and Informatics Management Office.

Section IV - Aptitude Selection

Section IV deals mainly with aptitude requirements of candidates to competitions for access to the administration of Public Security and aptitude requirements of the employees who aspire to be assigned to particular sectors. The section also deals with the assessment of aptitude with regard readmissions service. The Section is subdivided into six functional offices, each dealing with a single step of the attitudinal assessment.

Section V - Officials Administration

Section V is responsible for the administration of civilian officials who belong to the Administration of Public Security and of their careers. The Section deals with the legal status of career advancement, transfer and discipline related to such personnel; it also examines and decide on authorizations of offices outside work and especially on the rewards and decides on awards.
The Section is subdivided into five offices, each covering an individual sector; all offices include a Central Commission and five Interregional Commissions, which are tasked with the examination and preliminary decision about the individual cases. All the Interregional Commissions are framed within the Interregional Directorates, Personnel Division.

II Unit - Forces deployment

The II Unit - Forces deployment (II Reparto - Impiego delle Forze) is the main operational body at the central level. The II Unit is subdivided into five Offices:

• Operations Office (Ufficio Operazioni);
• Security Office;
• Organized Crime Office (Ufficio Criminalità Organizzata);
• Plans and Military Police Office (Ufficio Piani e Polizia Militare);
• Public Order Office (Ufficio Ordine Pubblico);
• International Cooperation Office;
• Crisis Command Centre.

The Head of the II Unit, on the basis of the orders and the superior directives, carries out command and address functions in the operative field; he also has disciplinary tasks for Carabinieri assigned to Division VI - Criminal Police: not only CC.RR. bodies subordinated to the Division, but also for those directly part of the divisional offices.

Operations Office

The Operations Office (Ufficio Operazioni) has management duties in the extraordinary operations related to control of the territory, performs the operational analysis and is responsible for the study and development of the military employment doctrine of the Royal Carabinieri. The Office also participates in the elaboration of the inter-agency doctrine referring to special operations.

• Section I - General Affairs
• Section II - Operational support;
• Section III - Investigative support;
• Section IV - Territorial Control;
• Situation Centre;
• Crisis Command Centre.

Section III - Investigative support

Section III - Investigative support is tasked to provide front-line policing with specialist skills and expertise to support major crime investigations such as abduction, serial sexual crimes and no-body murder. Made up of a number of specialised squads, the Investigations Support Office provides a readily deployable support to peripheral (interregional/regional/provincial) echelons. Whole Squads are functionally organized, individual specialists may be detached from every squad. Section III - Investigative support includes:

• Archive Research Squad (Squadra di Ricerca Archivistica, S.R.A.): it provides documentation support to police investigations and liasies with Division I - General Affairs, Section I - General Affairs and Personnel, Office XI - Documentation and with General Affairs Office;
• Special Interrogations Squad (Squadra Interrogatori Speciali, S.I.S.): it provides specialists for interview of vulnerable or intimidated witnesses. It has a significant quota of female operators;
• Criminal Investigations Support Squad (Squadra di Supporto Investigazioni Criminali, CRIMINALSUP): it provides investigative advice and suggestions regarding the investigation of murder, no body murder, rape, abduction, suspicious missing persons, and series and serious sexual offences.
• Searches Support Squad (Squadra Supporto Perquisizioni, PERQUISUP): it assists to peripheral organizations in all all search matters;

Section IV - Territorial Control

Territorial Control Unit sleeve insignia.

Section IV - Territorial Control (Sezione Controllo Territoriale, S.C.T.) identifies and develops strategies for general prevention and control of territory. In addition, it directs the use of all resources allocated to prevention, at both central and peripheral levels. The Territorial Control Section deals with central management tasks, ensuring the monitoring of the various territorial instruments. For these needs, the Section makes a constant study, research and even international interchange.
The Territorial Control Units (Reparti Controllo Territriale, R.C.T.) depend directly on the Territorial Control Section, which plans to use them, and makes them available to the various Questure. The use of the 19 Territorial Control Units (commanded each by a C.P.R. Lieutenant Colonel) is planned by the Territorial Control Section in relation to the demands of the Quaestors, particularly when local resources are not sufficient.
General Prevention and Public Assistance Offices are organically inserted into provincial Questure and direct the work of the Crime Prevention Units on the ground.
Because the first Territorial Control Unit was established in 1976 within the Highway Police Service under the name of Anti-Crime Special Unit (Reparto Speciale Prevenzione Crimine), the C.P.R. personnel assigned to the Territorial Control Section still wear Rosso corsa berets and the Highway Police Service uniforms, although with their own sleeve insignia. The Reggio Calabria Territorial Control Unit has a specially-trained Special Control Group (Gruppo Controllo Speciale, G.C.S.), tasked to provide support against organised crime and dangerous fugitives on the whole national territory.

Situation Centre

The Situation Centre of the General Command acts as a driving force: it updates the General Commander and the central authorities on the evolution of particular situations and employs the operational reserves of the Royal Carabinieri. In case of emergency, it requires the use of helicopters to the Air Service.

Crisis Command Centre

The Crisis Command Centre (Centro di Comando Crisi, C.C.C.) is a crisis planning and management tool available to the Commandant-General of the Royal Carabinieri. The Crisis Command Centre has a permanent projectable component that can be deployed for the benefit of the Public Security (tripartite) territorial command levels or made available to other administrative authorities faced with the management of a major crisis. The C.C.C. intervenes and brings its expertise to all levels of crisis management. Within the General Command, it provides analysis of operational information and prepares decision-making.
At the interregional, regional or provincial levels, the C.C.C. offers support for the planning of a large event, support for the management of an unexpected crisis or assistance in the conduct of a large-scale operational device. Its deployment allows the territorial command levels of the Royal Carabinieri to face an extraordinary event while continuing to deal with the daily activity.
To carry out its missions, the C.C.C. has staff experienced in planning and conducting operations in crisis situations. The C.C.C. is thus able to implement, even in very degraded environments, command and communication resources allowing it to continue its missions in total autonomy. It can thus deploy ad hoc communication networks, organize an emergency maneuver and conduct public order, public security, judicial police, road traffic or operational logistics operations. This allow the C.C.C. to be deployed also in the Italian Empire.

Security Office

The Security Office (Ufficio Sicurezza) has the task of maintaining security within the General Command, as well as to provide stable security conditions around the national territory.

• Principal Special Secretariat: in charge of managing security and intelligence communications;
• COSMEC laboratory;

Organized Crime Office

The Organized Crime Office (Ufficio Criminalità Organizzata) is the main criminal police office with judicial police duties at the central level of the Royal Carabinieri. Its subdivisions act as autonomous analysis bodies, producing analysis and assessments for both the Director-General and the General Command. It is the main arm of social surveillance of the military establishment. The Organized Crime Office also is the interface with the Anticrime Divisions of the Questure, ensuring the coordination function in strategic sectors, such as the analysis of criminal phenomena and prevention measures, both personal and property, while ensuring, at the same time, the effective exercise of the powers of the provincial public security authorities.
The Organized Crime Office consists of seven Sections:

• Section I - Itinerant Delinquency: its area of expertise is the fight against crime committed by itinerant criminals;
• Section II - Preventive Investigations;
• Section III - Special custodial measures: information activities for the application and extension of special prison regimes.
• Section IV - Protocols: prepares protocols for personal and property investigations, as well as for setting up the Quaestor's proposals on the matter;
• Section V - Strategic analysis;
• Section VI - International Relations: specialistic support to Central Office of International Criminal Police and cooperation outside INTERPOL system.
• Special Operational Group.

Special Operational Group

The Special Operational Group (Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale, R.O.S.) is the top body for the criminal police investigations at the national level. The R.O.S. is engaged in the fight against organised crime, including the infiltration into sectors of the national economy. The R.O.S. is the primary point of reference for both INTERPOL and EUROPOL; the area of intervention concerns investigations in a coordinated manner, with direct participation, in the most serious criminal phenomena and the development of operational analysis and consequent strategies to combat it. The Special Operational Group is divided into eight offices:

• Office I - Fugitives;
• Office II - Investigations Support;
• Office III - Organised crime and narcotics;
• Office IV - Human exploitation and trafficking;
• Office V - Common crimes;
• Office VI - Unsolved Crimes;
• Office VII - Vehicles Trafficking;
• Office VIII - Analysis.

The Special Operational Group also relies on the 21 Criminal Police Centres within the Regional Offices of Public Security; these Centres depend functionally, technically and hierarchically on the R.O.S., which is the main body which the prosecutions delegate for investigations against organised crime.

Plans and Military Police Office

The Plans and Military Police Office deals with operational, contingency and emergency planning, with planning of current military operations, with the elaboration of the Strategic, Operational and Tactical Joint Doctrine, and with coordination of the activities of several bodies (CC.RR. and C.P.R. territorial bodies, CC.RR. Military Police Command, and G.N.R. Military Police Command) with the the O.V.R.A. and the Military Information Service. The Office is subdivided into five Sections:

• Section I - Plans: manages the military cooperation with the military forces of the Italian Empire and coordinates the military police issues at national level and within the Italian Empire.
• Section II - Bilateral cooperation: manages bilateral or multilateral cooperation programs that involve the Weapon involved in foreign military employment and cooperation programs arising from diplomatic relations between Italy and other countries.
• Section III - Current Military Operations: the section manages daily missions, that is, it manages all the aspects and problems related to the active participation of the Carabinieri contingents in operations outside police duties (in Italy, in one or more Realms of the Italian Empire, or abroad), which go from finding the appropriate personnel, then passing them to the operating theatre, up to the actual operational aspects that revolve around the missions;
• Section IV - Internal inspections: manages judicial inquiries concerning the personnel of the Royal Carabinieri, as well as for the inspection and control of the service.
• Section V - Defence: investigaes major cases such as spies of the whole army, subversion of national security, and betrayal of military intelligence. The conduct of affairs is under the guidance of the Military Information Service and of the O.V.R.A.

Public Order Office

Public Order Office (Ufficio Ordine Pubblico) is one of the most important offices within the Royal Carabinieri, because it deals with the top-level management of public order services, mainly on sensitive occasions. The Section is closely connected with the Prefectures and the Questure, as well as with other information channels, for the management of public order on the occasion of important events, including rallies, demonstrations and other mass events, both events organised by the Regime and non-authorised events. Public Order Office is therefore the organ which is responsible for the deployment and the centralised direction and management of the mobile units, of the other non-territorial units of the Royal Carabinieri, of the forces of the Voluntary Militia for National Security and of the Italian National Royal Guard units for both public order and rescue operations in case of public calamities. The Office is also responsible for the oversight of the objectives of public interest and of diplomatic and service of security for foreign dignitaries temporarily visiting in Italy. The Office is in charge of the public order network, being the direct collaborator and adviser of both the Commandant General and the Chief of Police for subversive and political matters. The Public Order Office is the terminal point all police bodies tasked of preserving the public order and security, including both Division II - Confidential Affairs and Division VII - Political Police, as well as the Intelligence and Security Organization. The Office also maintains liaison with Joint Operational Command for the National Territory.
The Public Order Office, directed by an Brigadier General, is further divided into four Sections:

• Section I - General Affairs: the Section supports the Office Director and prepares guidelines on the management of public events and provisions for the use of mobile forces. To achieve this, it plans reinforcements of the mobile units of the police and security forces for public order services or for rescue operations, assigning directly to the Provincial Authorities of Public Security any special units (canine units, mounted units, bomb disposal units, naval squads, divers and snipers and sharpshooters) and decides on any temporary aggregations of personnel of the Royal Carabinieri for such services. The Section also monitors and analyses events and other events relevant to public order, prepares the daily reports and produces statistical analysis.
• Section II - Official Events, Surveillance and Emergency: Section II is in charge of official events attended by the most important State and Party leaders. In addition, it deals with the most critical situations and with surveillance operations. Therefore, it prepares guidelines on public order services on the occasion of such events, as it is responsible for the preparation of guidelines for the visits of foreign dignitaries in Italy. As regards the surveillance and emergency preparation activities, the Sector prepares the appropriate directives and emergency planning and crisis management that require the intervention of the Armed Forces. Finally, it is responsible for participation in exercises and international working groups for cooperation activities in the field of public security.
• Section III - Sports Violence: Section III is responsible for the management of sports violence. Therefore, it mainly carries out studies and research for the prevention of violence in sport, performing a dynamic analysis of the illegality related to sporting events and establish the guidelines that result. The Section therefore takes the relations with the government's national and international sporting and other organs of the whole Directorate General for the coordination of law enforcement activities. Finally, the Office is responsible for the course material for the training and retraining of personnel in the field of public order.
• Section IV - Civil Defence: Section IV is in charge for the management of Public Security contribution and intervention to civil defence operations in case of natural or man-made disasters. The Office is led by a Vice-Prefect Inspector.

International Cooperation Office

International Cooperation Office is responsible for relations of the Royal Carabinieri with foreign (i.e. not belonging to the Italian Empire) countries and with other Italian State administrations. Activities range from bilateral information exchange to operation of multilateral police organisations.
In international relations, Public Security divides the world into five areas, each with liaison officers and working groups. The system of liaison officers is also divided into five areas, with a hundred experts plus support staff. Currently, the Balkan area is the strongest. six Offices operate at central level:

• Section I - Bilateral Exchanges, dealing with country-to-country cooperations;
• Section II - Fascist and European Countries, dealing with affairs pertaining exclusively to nearby countries in Europe;
• Section III - Multilateral Exchanges and International Organisations, which provides guidance for matters related to wider forums;
• Section IV - Strategic planning, to take care of strategic planning in the field of international police cooperation.
• Section V - Gendarmerie cooperation;
• Section VI - Italian Empire;

Section VI - Italian Empire

Section VI - Italian Empire is responsible of the public security activity carried out at imperial level and for assisting the Chief of Public Security in managing and directing the police/gendarmerie forces of the other Realms of the Italian Empire. The Section main task is the analysis, advice and coordinating activity of high sensitivity between various Italian police forces. In addition to this task, the Section prepares documents for the general coordination activity, carries out the activities of the security secretariat and technical advice on issues relating to classified documents. The section, alongside various subdivisions, also has a Consultative Commission, which consists of a representative from each Gendarmerie force and of a representative of the Montenegrin police.

III Unit - Telematics

• Office V - IT and informatics needs;
• Office VI - IT and informatics maintenance;

Section II - IT, telecommunications and technical systems

Section II - IT, telecommunications and technical systems (Sezione II - Tecnologie dell'Informazione, telecomunicazioni e sistemi tecnici) handles tender procedures in the IT, telecommunications and technical systems sectors also for the entire Ministry of the Interior. The Section ensures the organization and execution of technical management activities in the information technology sector, including by conducting research, development and testing of new technologies, provides support to the other Divisions as regards their activities and directs territorial logistical needs.
As regards telecommunications, the Section, in coordination with the General Affairs Service of the Pos Police, ensures the technical management and organization of the telecommunications networks of the Directorate-General of Public Security and the Ministry of the Interior. In addition, it provides for the detection and certification of quality indicators. The coexistence of Office XVI and the General Affairs Service of the Post Police, established in 2016, is due to a compromise between supporters of Prefects' power in the field of public security, who managed to maintain Office XVI, and supporters of the public security autonomy from prefects' intereference, at least at a central level. The IT, telecommunications and technical systems Section is headed by a Police Inspector General and its sixteen Offices are headed by Police Inspectors or by civilian technical officials:

• Office I - Tender procedures for the IT sector;
• Office II - Tender procedures for the technical services sector;
• Office III - Financial and accounting services;
• Office IV - Design of IT architectures;
• Office V - Technical specifications of the IT sector;
• Office VI - Research and technological experimentation;
• Office VII - Relations with central and peripheral offices;
• Office VIII - Logistic Security and Data Security;
• Office IX - Software design and maintenance;
• Office X - Relations with the Ministry of Grace and Justice;
• Office XI - Document flow systems and open source software;
• Office XII - Technical specifications for General Affairs Division, Schools Division, General Inspectorate, Accounting Services Division;
• Office XIII - Technical specifications for Border Police;
• Office XIV - Technical specifications for Confidential Affairs Division, Political Police Division and Transport Police Division;
• Office XV - Technical specifications for Criminal Police Division and for Administrative Police Division;
• Office XVI - Support to the General Affairs Service of Postal Police.

IV Unit - Forces logistic support

The IV Unit - Forces logistic support (IV Reparto - Sostegno Logistico delle Forze) is the technical-operational body of the General Command tasked with ensuring logistic support to the Royal Carabinieri. The office heads are Lieutenant Colonels or full Colonels:

• Office I - Vehicle fleet;
• Office II - Vehicle maintenance;
• Office III - Vehicle accounting;
• Office IV - Planning;
• Office VII - Telecommunications and telephony services;
• Office VIII - Facilities maintenance;
• Office IX - Assignment of housing.

Section III - Armament, clothing, equipment and special materials

Section III - Armament, clothing, equipment and special materials (Sezione III - Vestiario, Armamento, Equipaggiamento e Materiali speciali) takes care of contractual activities and of technical evaluation in relation to special materials, clothing, armament and equipment of the entire Public Security sector, without prejudice to the competences of the individual Military Corps.
The Armament, clothing, equipment and special materials Section is headed by a C.P.R./CC.RR. Brigadier General (on a rotationary basis) and its eleven Offices are headed by Police Inspectors or by C.P.R. or CC.RR. Colonels:

• Office I - Tendering procedures for police clothing;
• Office II - Tender procedures for police equipment;
• Office III - Tendering procedures for special police materials;
• Office IV - Coordination with the General-Inspector of the Militarized Police Corps;
• Office V - Supply organization and compliance check;
• Office VI - Logistic management of the Interregional Directorates;
• Office VII - Warehouse management;
• Office VIII - Evaluation of police armament;
• Office IX - Research and technological experimentation;
• Office X - Coordination and consultation with the Armed Forces and with the M.V.S.N.;
• Office XI - Italian Empire.

Technical Advisory Commission

The Technical Advisory Commission (Commissione Tecnica Consultiva) has the task of expressing the technical opinion on all the necessary supplies for the services and police forces to which the Ministry of the Interior is required by law or regulation, as well as on the disposal of the related materials. The Technical Advisory Commission is chaired by an Official with a qualification not inferior to the Prefect of First Class (or Director General of First Class) and is composed of:

• the heads of the Divisions: Contracts and supplies, Technical services and telecommunications, Motorization of the Directorate General of Public Security;
• a public security official with a rank not inferior to the Inspector General;
• a general officer of the Royal Police Corps;
• a general officer of the Royal Carabinieri;
• the Director of the Inspectorate of Accountancy of the Directorate General of Public Security;
• an official of the Ministry of National Economy - General Accounting Office of the State, inspectorate general of finance, with a rank not inferior to Inspector General.

The Technical Advisory Commission is complemented by at least two experts chosen by the Chairman in reaction to the matters on the agenda of each meeting. An official of the Civil Administration of the Interior in charge of the Directorate-General exercises the functions of secretary of the commission. The Chairman, the members and the secretary of the commission are appointed by decree of the minister for the interior. With the same ministerial decree, a list of experts is set up, in which, on the designation of the respective Ministries, they are enrolled in service activities of different State Administrations, with a rank not inferior to Rank VII - Chief Councillor (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel), who are particularly competent in the technical-accounting sector or who have acquired a specific aptitude in the matters covered by the committee's consultative activity.
The Chief of Police has the right to hear the commission on the technical aspects of the annual related spending proposals. The Technical Advisory Commission also expresses its technical opinion on the detailed program prepared by the Directorate General of Public Security for the use of funds available under the budget chapters for the purchase of goods and services.

Division XII - Police barracking

The Division XII - Police barracking (It.: Divisione XII - Casermaggio di polizia) deals with contractual and technical activities relating to the acquisition and management of fixed infrastructures to be used for public security activities. This set of infrastructures includes the buildings that house offices, central and peripheral, of Public Security (Questure, Commissariats, Stations, etc.) regardless to the specific Corps that occupies the structures.
The Police barracking Division consists of four sections, in turn composed of offices:

• Section I - Contractual activities for Police barracking;
• Section II - Technical services;
• Section III - Police facilities
• Section IV - Central Logistic Support.

Current Head of Division is Director-General of P.S. Fausto Di Salvio.

Section I - Contractual activities for Police barracking

Section I - Contractual activities for Police barracking (Sezione I - Attività Contrattuali per il casermaggio di polizia) deals with the tender and acquisition procedures relating to the barracking of the offices and departments of the Directorate-General, for joint use and of the Royal Police Corps. Royal Carabinieri depend on the Ministry of National Defence and are only financed by the Ministry of Interior.
The Section also provides for tender and procurement procedures relating to the canteen service for the Royal Police Corps and cleaning services for all police headquarters.
The Section is directed by a Vice-prefect and consists of five Offices, directed by Vice-Prefect Inspectors:

• Office I - Tenders for canteen services;
• Office II - Tenders for cleaning services;
• Office III - Barracking.

Section II - Technical services for Police barracking

Section II - Technical services for Police barracking (Sezione II - Servizi tecnici per il Casermaggio di polizia) ensures the organization and uniformity of the technical management activities of the police housekeeping. The Section is directed by a Vice-prefect and consists of four Offices, directed by Vice-Prefect Inspectors:

• Office I - Technical and organizational methodologies;
• Office II - New technologies;
• Office III - Works management;
• Office IV - Technical specifications for the calls for tenders.

Section III - Police facilities

Section III - Police facilities (Sezione III - Infrastrutture di polizia) deals with the management of the real estate of the Directorate General of Public Security and of the Royal Police Corps.
The section is directed by a Technical Official of the Civil Administration of the Interior (Rank V - Senior Inspector of Civil Engineering) and is divided into five Offices, each directed by a Technical Official of the Civil Administration of the Interior (Rank VI - Inspector of Civil Engineering):

• Office I - Technical-regulatory coordination
• Office II - Survey of needs;
• Office III - Intervention planning;
• Office IV - Processing of technical requirements;
• Office V - Technical opinions.

Division XIV - Motorization

Division XVI - Motorization (It.: Divisione XVI - Motorizzazione) is responsible for supervising all the activities relating to the acquisition, management and technical specification relating to the vehicle fleet of the General Directorate of Public Security. Unlike other police equipment, and the bureaucratic organs dedicated to it (i.e. Division XI), the vehicle fleet is a matter where the General-Inspector and individual Military Corps with Police Duties enjoy a wide degree of autonomy, in particular the Royal Carabinieri. The Division is divided into two sections:

• Section I - Contractual Activities;
• Section II - Technical services.

Current Head of Division is Director General of P.S. in charge of Special Office Giovanni Alberti.

Section I - Contractual Activities

Section I - Contractual Activities (Sezione I - Attività Contrattuali) handles tender procedures in the police vehicles sector for vehicle equipment related to the public security activities and for vehicles strictly related to police services and to the Ministry's needs. Section I is divided into four Offices and is directed by a Vice-prefect.

• Office I - Tenders for vehicles;
• Office II - Tenders for spare parts and support systems;
• Office III - Liaison with the General-Inspector and with the Military Corps in charge of Police Duties: led by a Colonel;
• Office IV - Legal and administrative support.

Section II - Technical Services

Section II - Technical Services (Sezione II - Servizi Tecnici) ensures the organization and execution of technical management activities in the information technology sector, including by conducting research, development and testing of new technologies, provides support to the other Divisions as regards their activities and directs territorial logistical needs. The Section consists of twelve Offices and it is directed by an Inspector General. Its Offices are directed by Police Inspectors (Offices I, II, III, V, VIII, IX and X), by Colonels (Office IV) and by technical managers of the Civil Administration of the Interior (Offices VI and XI) assisted by officials and officers.

• Office I - Organizational methodologies;
• Office II - Survey of needs;
• Office III - Assignment of the material;
• Office IV - Liaison with the General-Inspector and with the Military Corps in charge of Police Duties;
• Office V - Insurance Register;
• Office VI - New land and sea technologies;
• Office VII - Technical specifications for the calls for tenders;
• Office VIII - Coordination of maintenance;
• Office IX - Development of liveries for police vehicles;
• Office X - Logistical support to the Joint Air Police Service;
• Office XI - New aviation technologies.

V Unit - External Relations and Propaganda

V Unit - External Relations and Propaganda (V Reparto - Relazioni Esterne e Propaganda) deals with media relations, takes care of the propaganda of the Royal Carabinieri, the affairs of the ceremonial in relation to the events of the Directorate General of Public Security and, finally, the support the uniformology. The Section is directed by an Inspector General, and the five individual offices are all headed by Police Inspectors or a civilian official of equivalent rank and adequate technical specialisation:

• Office I - Propaganda and press relations;
• Office II - "Polizia Moderna" Magazine;
• Office III - Crisis communication;
• Office IV - Ceremonies and events of the Directorate General of Public Security;
• Office V - Uniform and symbolic consultancy to military corps tasked with police duties.

VI Unit - Planning, Budget and Administrative control

The VI Unit - Planning, Budget and Administrative control (VI Reparto - Programmazione, Bilancio e Controllo amministrativo) is the branch devoted to analysis and planning of the police and security activity. Furthermore, the Unit is tasked to carry out acquisitions and administrative controls.

• Strategic Analysis Office;
• Budget Office;
• Administrative control Office.

Strategic analysis office

Strategic analysis office is the think tank of the Royal Carabinieri. It has jurisdiction in supporting the Commandant-General for the planning and the definition of the objectives and programs and the coordination of the activities of the offices of the Directorate General, as well as internal coordination. The Office main task is the analysis, advice and fitting information. In addition to this task, the Office prepares the records and documents to the National Committee of Order and Public Security, carries out the activities of the security secretariat and technical advice on issues relating to classified documents.
The Office also oversees the functioning of the archives of the Questure and manages the acquisition, monitoring and management of internal and external information related to order and public security.
The Office is directed by an Inspector General, and the eight individual offices are all headed by Quaestors, 2nd class or equivalent:

• Section I - General Affairs: collection, analysis and study of the data provided by the Questure on the prevention and contrast action against organized and common crime, including the delinquent phenomena concerning minors, also for the purposes of drafting periodic contributions and reports, as well as for the elaboration of the strategic lines of anti-crime intervention;
• Section II - Opinions: Expresses opinions on criminal phenomenon protocols and participates in international forums and work tables of non-operational relevance;
• Section IV - Strategic Crime Analysis;
• Section V - Methodology Office;
• Section VI - Criminal Behaviour Analysis Office;
• Section VII - Archives Office;
• Section VIII - Major Public Contracts Analysis Office;
• Section IX - Suppression of Human Trafficking Office;
• Office I - Objectives and programs;
• Office II - Local Administrators Security;
• Office III - Analysis of National Economic Security;
• Office IV - Affairs and Security Secretariat for National Committee of Order and Public Security;
• Office V - Organisation of the Directorate-General;
• Office VI - Public security legislation studies;
• Office VII - Criminal legislation studies;

Office II - Local Administrators Security

Office II - Local Administrators Security operates in the Directorate General of Public Security as an articulation of the Central Study Commission on Intimidation against Local Administrators. The Office constantly monitors the phenomenon, also by analyzing the data provided by the prefectural documentation services. To this end, also in relation to the different territorial contexts, directs the activity of the same documentation services. On the basis of the studies, he proposes to the Commission initiatives and strategies for preventing and combating the phenomenon and periodically reports to the Observatory.
The Local Administrators Security Office is an Office of the Division I - General Affairs, Section II - Analysis, Plans and Documentation. The Office consists of representatives of the Directorate General of Public Security, the Directorate General for the Civil Administration of the Interior, the Directorate General for Civil Services, the Directorate General for General Affairs and Civilian Personnel, the M.V.S.N. and all police forces. The Office is supported by officials from the Criminal Analysis Section (Section II, Division VI - Criminal Police).

Office III - Analysis of National Economic Security

Office III - Analysis of National Economic Security contributes to the protection of the economic security against foreign or undue acquisitions in strategic sectors of the Italian economy or the economy of the Empire. The task of Office III is to formulate non-binding proposals of issuing vetoes over such acquisitions.
The Office operates in liaision with several entities: the Ministries of Corporations, of Foreign Affairs and of National Defence, with the intelligence community and with the Royal Guard of Finance. Office III also has direct relationships with the individual security bodies (the O.V.R.A. branches) of the Realms of the Italian Empire for this purposes and, through Section IX - Public Security of the Italian Empire, with police organisations of the Italian Empire.

Division XVI - Accounting Services

Division XVI - Accounting Services (It.: Divisione XVI - Servizi di Ragioneria) provides economic-financial planning and budget policies for the Administration of Public Security. It also performs the function of the central purchasing department of the entire Directorate-General for Public Security.
The Division is divided into eight Sections:

• Section I - Economic and financial planning and budgetary policies;
• Section II - Economic and financial accounting;
• Section III - administrative-accounting activities;
• Section IV - Services for Armament, equipment, special materials, motorization and canteen and cleaning;
• Section V - Economic and financial management and services for IT, telecommunications and technical systems;
• Section VI - Services for the registration and housing of the Military Corps with Police Functions;
• Section VII - Economic treatment of personnel;
• Section VIII - Economic and accounting management of staff working in the central offices.

Current Head of Section is Rank IV - Chief Intendant of Finance Paolo Anselmi.

Division XI - Contracts and management of supplies

Division XI - Contracts and management of supplies (It.: Divisione XI - Contratti e gestione dei rifornimenti) performs monitoring and analysis of the logistical and financial requirements of the Administration of the Public Security bodies and ensures the overall planning, in liaison with other offices in the matters of their respective competence. The Division takes also care of the financial programming and carries out the administrative and accounting procedures for the management of expenditures. It is to note that this Division is manned almost exclusively by civilian personnel, seconded from the wider Interior administration.
With regard to logistics, the Division carries out analysis of existing operating assets and ensures the procurement, administration and management of all resources, goods, materials, equipment and prepares the general plan of distribution. The Division is divided into three Sections:

• Section I - General Affairs and Planning: the section deals with with secretariat duties and with the financial planning tasks.
• Section II - IT, telecommunications and technical systems: the section is responsible for providing supplies services related to non technologically-advanced/IT equipment. Furthermore, it is responsible for carrying out market analysis in order to find out most suitable equipment.
• Section III - Armament, clothing, equipment and special materials;
• Technical Advisory Commission.

Current Head of Division is Prefect, 2nd Class Raniero Cotti-Borroni.

Section I - General Affairs and Planning

Section I - General Affairs and Planning (Sezione I - Affari Generali e Pianificazione) deals with with secretariat duties and with the financial planning tasks.
The Planning Section ensures support to the Head of Division in relations with the other Divisions of the Directorate General of Public Security, the other Directorates General of the Ministry of Interior and with the Military Corps with Police Duties. The Section also monitors and standardizes contractual activities, ensures the detection of public security needs and, finally, supports the Head of Division in the financial planning of the logistics sector. The Planning Section is headed by a Vice-Prefect and its fourteen Offices are headed by Police Inspectors or by Vice-Prefects Inspector:

• Office I - General Affairs;
• Office II - Programs;
• Office III - Annual and multi-year planning;
• Office IV - Management control and monitoring;
• Office V - Security Secretariat;
• Office VI - Management of logistics and material resources;
• Office VII - Personnel;
• Office VIII - Regulations;
• Office IX - Coordination of contractual activity;
• Office X - Tenders;
• Office XI - Organizational analysis;
• Office XII - Anti-corruption;
• Office XIII - Survey of existing needs and equipment;
• Office XIV - Reporting.

Division V - Administrative and Social Police

Division V - Administrative and Social Police (Italian: Divisione V - Polizia Amministrativa e Sociale) deals with the study and use of the most effective means to avert disruption of social and legal order: the Division also deals with the superintendence and general guidance on administrative departments of public security provincial and sub-provincial offices, as well as on local police corps. The Division is responsible for planning, guidance and coordination of activities and administrative police measures, for the preparation of acts of competence of the Minister in the local administrative police matters and for records keeping, as well as for providing bureaucratic support to peripheral authorities of all types. The Division also deals with the coordination of administrative departments of public security provincial and sub-provincial offices.
In particular, Division V - Administrative and Social Police deals with the sale, storage and introduction in Italy of weapons, the control of establishments, compliance with urban and rural police regulations and supervision and coordination of their enforcement, emigration, issuing of passports and forced domiciles. While general tasks of administrative police are carried out by several other Public Security organisations, Division V is one of the most important subdivisions of the Directorate General of Public Security and, to deal with its tasks, the Division consists of ten Sections and four independent Offices:

• Section I - Licenses; this section deals with administrative permits and authorizations related to weapons, health and mineral oils and it is subdivided into six offices: Weapons sell, Detention, depot and importation regulation, Public establishments control, Explosives, Health regulations, Mineral oils;
• Section II - Regulations: this section deals with all regulations related to administration (both central and peripheric) and it is subdivided into eight offices: Urban and rural regulations, Provincial regulations, Regional and other local regulations, Mortuary police, Trade regulations, Construction police and regulations, Public security licenses for commercial purposes, Prostitution;
• Section III - Residing Foreigners and Residing Imperial Citizens; this section deals with immigrations and therefore is in close relationship with other bureaucratic bodies with responsibilities in foreigners' stay. It has three offices: stay permits, deportation, citizenship applications;
• Section IV - Citizens mobility; this section deals with Italian nationals' mobility and emigration and it is subdivided into five offices: Travelling Jobs, Emigration, Passports issuance, Forced stays (non political cases) and Special surveillance;
• Section V - Cults and Sects; this section deals with foreign and original cults surveillance, tracking down of magicians and frauds. Section V - Cults is subdivided into five operational Offices, which deal with the fight against cults according a thematic pattern: Satanic Cults Office, European Cults Office, Asiatic Cults Office, Islamic Cults Office and Christian-derived Cults Office. Classical Olympic (Greek-Roman) worshipping is not officially kept under surveillance.
• Section VI - Local Police: this section is in charge for dealing with Local Police general affairs, coordination, surveillance, general regulation and with the operation of Local Police training facilities;
• Section VII - Private security: this section is in charge for dealing with private security service and firms other than the private military/combat companies (which are not dealt with by the Administrative Police Division). It deals with general affairs, licensing, inspecting, regulations drafting and with the support of local Prefectures in this matter. A separate office, framed within Section VII, deals with credit recovery authorizations;
• Section VIII - Common firearms: this section keeps control and under surveillance acquisition, possession and transfer of non-military grade firearms.
• Section IX - Control of weapons and explosives: this section is in charge for dealing with military-grade weapons and all explosives for matters separated from the licenses (dealt with by Section I);
• Section X - Games and Races;
• Central Office for Information Exchange: in charge for Italian Empire-level information exchange related to weapons matters.
• Central Censorship Office: in charge for coordinating all censorship efforts.
• Central Identification Office.
• Central Studies and Legislative Office.

Current Head of Division is Prefect, 1st Class Pasquale Ametrano.

Section X - Games and Races

Section X - Games and Races (Sezione X - Giochi e Corse) is tasked to ensure the respect of the regularity and the sincerity of the games, whatever they are, as well as the protection of the players and the defence of the interests of the State, and proceeds to the investigations administrative matters within the regulatory domain of games.
The Racing and Games Section is made up of six Offices: Office of Documentation and Coordination, Office of General Supervision of Casinos, Races Office, Office of Judicial Affairs and Observatory of Games Related to New Technologies.

Division VI - Criminal Police

Division VI - Criminal Police is the cornerstone office of the General Command of the Royal Carabinieri, being in charge of liability ascertainment and consequent punishment of the criminal, when, despite the adoption of the means of prevention, the injury of legal-social order has taken place (judicial police). In practical terms, the Division is responsible for the coordination of all police investigations at the national level of all police entities, with particular reference to the search and capture most dangerous fugitives and mafia-type criminal organisations, the crime-related information collection and analysis.
The Division is responsible for international cooperation in the fight against organised crime (drug trafficking, money laundering, trafficking in motor vehicles, counterfeiting, computer crime and environmental crime). The Division also manages and coordinates the collaborators of justice at the national level interventions related to the action of general prevention and control of the territory.
In order to fulfil its tasks, the Criminal Police Division has a number of Sections, Offices and other internal articulations, including the International Criminal Police Central Office (Ufficio centrale di polizia criminale internazionale, also known as "INTERPOL Italia").
The Division of Criminal Police is subdivided into six independent Offices and six Sections; offices directly dependent on the Chief of the Division are directed by Quaestors, 2nd Class (or equivalent), while Sections are led by Inspectors General (or equivalent).

• Secretariat of the Head of Division (in charge for execution and support in coordination duties);
• Central Office of General Affairs: manages Criminal databases, external specialist support, personnel affairs;
• Central Office of Legal Affairs;
• Central Office for the repression of Women and Children trafficking: in coordination with the Post Police Division;
• Central Office of International Criminal Police (INTERPOL);
• Central Office for Criminal Data Protection: in charge for ensuring the avalaibility of personal data only for security or political purposes;
• CC.RR. Organized Crime Office: in charge for criminal knowledge of the Ministry of National Defence;
• Section I - Central Protection Section;
• Section II - Criminal Analysis Section;
• Section III - Central Operational Section;
• Section IV - Territorial Control Section:
• Section V - Organised Crime Section;
• Section VI - Vehicle Theft Section.

Current Head of Division is Royal Carabinieri Major General Marino Spada.

Division VII - Political Police

Division VII - Political Police (Divisione VII - Polizia Politica) is the political police branch of the internal intelligence of the Public Security Directorate. The tasks assigned to Division VII - Political Police consist in the investigation and suppression of anti-fascist movement, with particular attention to the communist organisation and to liberal activities. Due to the sensitivity of the task assigned, due to the fact that the Division VII represents half of the civilian State intelligence, and due to the fact that the Confidential Affairs Division is almost always held by a senior police official promoted to the rank of Prefect, 1st class, the Division VII - Political Police is led, as a general rule, by a senior and highly trusted Prefect who comes from the peripheral administration and by diverse administration experiences. This makes the appointment to lead the Political Police an highly coveted award and acknowledgement to the career: no political bargain is made for the Political Police, and its directors are among Duce's most trusted men. The Divisional head reports also to the Director General of the National Security.
The interrogation methods used by the special, small interrogation teams framed in central offices of Political Police are known to be though and sometimes brutal: serious injury and death have to be avoided, and interrogators have to hurt arrested people without leaving a mark.
Political Police is the first-line civilian internal intelligence of the fascist police system, mainly dealing with the collection and analysis of information through the use of informers, spies infiltrated in many different areas of society, not only in the rooms directly anti-fascists but also in Regime-controlled contexts, such as public administration, printing, entertainment, etc. Differently from Confidential Affair Division, the seventh Division has a more decentralised focus, while still stepping in when the phenomena grow up beyond the local context. Informants of the Political Police are paid through the fund of political investigation. In contrast with Division II, the Political Police Division has a heavily judicial-oriented approach and functions as a hub for the intelligence community, allowing the Confidential Affairs Division to pursue an autonomous and intelligence-centred work.
By the establishing decree, Division VII - Political Police consists of eleven subdivisions: a General Affairs and Personnel Section, charged with overall direction and management, a Security Secretariat, a Divisional Political Files Cabinet (Casellario Politico di Divisione) and eight operational Sections. The Central Office for Political Investigation and Special Operations (Ufficio Centrale per le Investigazioni Politiche e le Operazioni Speciali, U.C.I.P.O.S.) is directly subordinated to the Divisional Chief, provides coordination services.
These seven operational Sections are grouped into two intermediate Services, which group together similar Sections, in order to ease joint working and analysis. The Services are the Political Opposition Service, which groups Sections I, II and III, and the State Security Service, which groups Sections IV, V, VI and VII. Section VIII (General Intelligence) and the Divisional File Cabinet are outside the two Services. While such "Services" are directed by senior officials who have the same rank of the Section heads, they are kept distinct and they retain functional authority over them.

• Political Opposition Service: the Service is in charge of ordinary montoring antifascists.
  • Section I - Liberal activities at home and abroad: the Section is responsible to counter the liberal anti-fascist activities, as well as to detect subversive plots originating in Western Europe, the U.S., British and French (former) colonies and North Africa, if they are directed both to the homeland or to the relevant Realm of the Italian Empire;
  • Section II - Islamic subversion and General Investigations: the Section deals with subversive plots if they originate in an Islamic environment, as well as with, on a purely domestic front, issues of Islamic immigrant dissenters and non-Islamic dissent which is not directed from abroad, as well as non-terror political offences such as smuggling of currency, anti-fascist trade unions and political personalities (and other ones); it also keeps an eye on cults deemed dangerous, although this is primary focus of the Administrative Police.
  • Section III - Leftist and Communist subversives;
• State Security Service: the Service is in charge for dealing with any threat to the Italian State, focusing on terrorism.
  • Section IV - Anti-Terrorism: the Anti-Terrorism Section deals with all the phenomena of contrast to the domestic and international terrorism. It is not a judicial police service, so does not take, on an ongoing basis, tasks from the judicial authority. The Section coordinates and boost counter-terrorism sections of the local Political Offices. The Section is also a terminal of the whole information flow of national and international intelligence, as well as of the police investigations. The hub function assigned to Section IV in anti-terrorism matters makes it the police "spearhead" and the main interface of other non-intelligence police bodies. Section IV is further organised in thematic Offices: Communists, Western-sponsored and Islamic Terrorism. It is to note that the Central Office for Special Affairs of the Confidential Affairs Division carries out similar activities; the difference lies in the fact that the Central Office for Special Affairs carries out covert operations and not official police-related operations.
  • Section V - International Terrorism and Foreigners associations: the Section carries out surveillance tasks over foreigners associations (both Imperial and non-Imperial people) in order to counter international terrorism in its cradle. Originally being a mere subsection of Section IV, the Section still maintains a close work relationship with the Section IV - Anti-Terrorism, and they often form joint working groups. The Section consists of three Offices: Foreigners Associations in Italy; Intelligence liasion; Investigations.
  • Section VI - State Security: it carries out investigations directly, or assists, directing them, those investigations carried out by other police departments for crimes against the State, of anarchist nature or against loyalty to Fascism, assisting and complementing the activities of the peripheral bodies. The Section can also claim for itself the investigations when it considers it necessary or when it is requested by the State Security Prosecution. The State Security Court relies on this Section for judicial police duties.
• Section VII - Technical Support
• Section VIII - General Intelligence
• Section IX - General Affairs and Personnel: tasked with dissemination also towards the Public Order Section.
• Central Office for Political Investigation and Special Operations
• Divisional File Cabinet

Current Head of Division is Prefect, 1st Class Sergio Benvenuti.

Section VIII - General Intelligence

Section VIII - General Intelligence (Sezione VIII - Informazioni Generali, often shortened in Sezione Informazioni Generali, S.I.S.) provides for the activity of direction, direction and coordination of information and operations and analysis in the field of social or economic phenomena relevant for public order and safety, as well as for special high-risk interventions. The Section is divided into three Offices:

• General Information Office: The Office deals with coordination and direction of investigative activities of the Political Offices concerning attacks, damaging threats and other criminal events relevant to public order and security of a matrix other than terrorist or subversive, corporate electoral offenses and against the public administration. The Office also deals with coordination and direction of investigations and prevention activities related to stadium violence.
• General Analysis Office: The Office is responsible for the analysis of the situation of public order and public safety (in support of territorial political offices), and in relation to social phenomenologies and secret and forbidden associations.
• Investigative Support Office: The Office has expertise in technical and operational support for investigations conducted by the Political Offices

Divisional File Cabinet

The Division also has, placed directly under its own chief, a Divisional File Cabinet, in order to achieve operational autonomy from O.V.R.A. The Cabinet is operated by an autonomous computer system, and it is functionally subdivided into three parts:

• an archive where all documents are inventoried according object, for example in antifascist groups and movements;
• a personal archive format consisting of files relating to personalities;
• an informants archive made up of files, each dedicated to an individual trustee and its activities.

Each informant recruited by the Political Police is assigned a number and a code name, such as spy "John Smith" has the number "543" and the code name of "Caesar", the number also distinguishes the informant's personal file. The informants activities consist mainly of the preparation of information reports about the subject or the subject watched. These reports are then to be sent to conventional address prepared for reception by the Division.
Upon receipt of the reports, the Copy Office produces three copies of each document. Of these three copies one is communicated to the Chief of Police, who decides which transmit daily to the Duce, another copy is sent to both the Central Security Office and the Confidential Affairs Division, and the third is assigned by the chief of Political police, according to the specific content of the report, to the official in charge for that field. Once acquired the single report, the practice follows the criterion for sorting groups of competence.

U.C.I.P.O.S.

The Central Office for Political Investigation and Special Operations (Ufficio Centrale per le Investigazioni Politiche e le Operazioni Speciali, U.C.I.P.O.S.) directly subordinated to the Divisional Chief, provides coordination to the provincial Political Offices and to the anti-terrorism sections of the Carabinieri, in order to ensure a vast and constant coordination and mutual information activity; it also contains the "Special Interrogations Team", which allegedly uses torture against dangerous and tough dissidents, and a divisional support structure (including a small infirmary with a Medical Officer and two Paramedics).
The U.C.I.P.O.S. also has the task of collaborating with the intelligence services, as well as with the military police organs, exercising, exclusively or in any case with the functions of superintendency and management, the security and judicial police assignments connected to the activity of the intelligence bodies. Finally, the U.C.I.P.O.S. is in charge for executing operations abroad, both in the Italian Empire and in foreign countries.
The information management activity of the U.C.I.P.O.S. is of utmost importance, mainly because it is the body tasked to collect information from all peripheral police bodies not tasked with intelligence functions; while individual information bullettins directly and specifically concerned with specific terrorism alerts flow from the territorial body to Section IV, the general flow is directed towards the U.C.I.P.O.S., which in turn sorts information chunks to the relevant Service and/or proposes them to be forwarded to Division II - Confidential Affairs and/or to other intelligence and security bodies.

Political Office

At the peripheral level, within each Questura, there is a Political Office. The provincial Political Office (which has further subdivisions in Detached Commissariats) is entrusted of a variety of functions, which include the collection of information about the overall situation, including for the prevention of public order breaking, the investigation for the prevention and punishment of crimes against the State and against the public order, politically driven or terrorism offences and crimes.
The Political Offices are organised into three Sections:

• Information section - general information, collection activities and analysis of information processing. The information sections monitors para-political, religious and sporting organisations, with particular attention paid to the supporters' organisations, radical movements and any other organisation or movement present and rooted in the territory which may have implications for public order and public security. It usually has a team for each topic, but some Political Offices may have more than one team devoted to a single area.
• Investigation section: it carries out the judicial police activities in the areas of responsibility of the office, such as crimes committed at sports events, crimes against the State and any other crime with implications on the public order and security which is not attributable nor to common or organised crime nor to terrorism.
• Counter-terrorism section: it carries out investigations in relation to terrorist groups; large cities have at least the international terrorism team.

Each Political Office maintains an its own political archive, which is kept distinct from the general archive; the Political Archive is directly managed by the Office personnel; only authorised external personnel may access the Political Archive. Only those deemed most dangerous subversives are reported to the central archives (both those of the Political Police Division and of the Confidential Affairs Division), while in the province the surveillance also extends to less important people. Personal files are opened after a central order or, more frequently, after a suggestion coming from the territorial general police organisations (such as Police Stations), from the local Party and Militia.
In Questure, Political Offices often have a phisically separate wing dedicated to their own use. Each Political Office head-quarters has a large hall which is used for internal meetings and news conferences. An ordinary Political Office is directed by a Deputy Quaestor, while important ones are led by Quaestors, 2nd Class. Officials in charge of the Sections only deal with the management of operational services, while personnel management is completely handled by the Detachments (of C.P.R. or Carabinieri military personnel) established in each Section. The Detachments are Squad-strength each (Platoons for CC), and they are commanded by the most senior available Subofficer.
Within each Carabinieri Provincial Command there is the Information Squad, whose task is to protect public security and public order, and to cooperate with the other agencies. The Information Squad also collects reports sent by Carabinieri Detachments in Political Offices.

Methods

Methods employed by the Political Police are notoriously harsh. When arrested, suspects or notorious dissidents and/or terrorists are given lenghty trips in the woods before being transferred at the Questura. Once they arrive to the police station, they are formally arrested (in order to avoid to have to report possible sensitive information obtained during the transfer to the prosecutor) and then are repeatedly beaten. When individuals who are notoriously responsible of shootings against the police are apprehended, the "Hall Ritual" is performed: two rows of policemen are formed and the individual is is forced to go through the double row and then is savagely beaten. Sometimes people remain permanently injured during this practice.

Division IX - Transportation Police

The Division (It.: Divisione IX - Polizia dei Trasporti) groups the two main specialities of Public Security: Traffic Police and Railway Police. The institutional responsibilities specialities are called to fulfil is the safety and security of transportations, of railway lines and of the border. Operators have a high level of professionalism, thanks to the frequency of specific courses at educational institutions of specialities. Each speciality is organised into a "Service", directed by an Inspector General or by a Quaestor 1st Class, assisted by two or more Quaestors 2nd Class. Both Services are characterised by an high degree of militarisation: civilian officials are assigned only to the central offices and all the chain of command consists of military officers who, once assigned to the Division, complete their career in the Service which they are assigned to.
Current Head of Division is Prefect, 2nd Class Furio Zoccano.

Highway Police Service

The Highway Police Service (Servizio Polizia Stradale) activity takes place on the Italian highway network and on main roads outside highways. It is commanded by officers of the Royal Police Corps, while all other sectors are directed by public security officials. The Service performs tasks of prevention and detection of traffic violations and of traffic accidents, manages inventories for traffic safety, the use of the road assets, helps in the relief operations and detects the traffic flows. The Service Command is subdivided into four Offices, each led by a Colonel:

• Office I - Personnel, Training and General Affairs; the Office also operates the Traffic Police Training Centre (Centro Addestramento Polizia Stradale, C.A.P.S.).
• Office II - Operations and Statistical Analysis; the Office is the operational subdivision, which coordinates the activities of prevention, suppression and rescue. The Office prepares road escorts and road surveillance targeted services. In addition, it deals with the statistical analysis and manages the Central Operations Room Information and Coordination Centre for Road Safety (Centro di Coordinamento per la Sicurezza Stradale, Ce.Co.S.S.).
• Office III - Analysis;
• Office IV - Technical equipment and Accounting.

At peripheral level, 19 Inter-provincial Compartments operate with as many Motorways Operations Centres (all commanded by Lieutenant Colonels) and 110 Provincial Sections (led by Majors); in turn, Sections have, as detached bodies, 81 Subsections and 188 Detachments, commanded by junior officers. In Cesena there is the Traffic Police Training Centre and the Special Operations Unit is based in Rome.

Railway Police Service

The Railway Police Service (Servizio Polizia Ferroviaria) is a service of Public Security, responsible for the prevention and suppression of crime and the maintenance of order and public safety in the railway sector. The railway police service has as its purpose the prevention and repression of crimes, the protection of public order and of the safety of citizens in the field of transport carried out on railway lines, on parked trains, or in the run, in railway plants and in all their pertinence or in any sector of the railway service.
The service ensures surveillance in railway stations, on trains and in transit patrols along the line in collaboration with both the CC. and M.V.S.N. station. In particular, it provides supervision of railways and their dependencies, supervision of the regular circulation of convoys and to guarantee the integrity of travelers and goods, and supervision of the correct observance of laws and regulations that directly concern the safety of railways and the regularity of transport in the field of railway services.
The tasks for the protection of the interests of the Treasury, the maintenance of order and the prevention and repression of offenses in the railway sector are attributed to the Royal Police Corps. The personnel of the Royal Police Corps in charge of the railway police services perform their duties under the direction and responsibility of the Commissariats of Public Security established in the Compartmental Offices of the State Railways.
The general organisation of the service is carried out by the personnel of the Royal Police Corps assigned to the railway police services and is managed by the Directorate General of Public Security - Division IX. Within the Directorate General of Public Safety, an Inspector General is tasked with supervising the railway police services carried out by the Commissariats of Public Security, keeping the necessary connections with the State Railways Administration.
The activity of the Inspector General is directed by the Head of the Transportation Police Division, in order to guarantee the uniformity of police action in the specific sectors. The supervision of the security services at the Ministry of Transport is separated from the railway police.

Territorial organisation

The Railway Police Service is organised on a territorial basis in peripheral offices, consisting of 17 "Railway Police Compartments" (based in Ancona, Bari, Bologna, Cagliari, Ajaccio, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Venice, Verona, corresponding with the Railways Compartments), which control the peripheral, smaller detachments (17 "Sections", 27 "Subsections", 153 "Railway Police Posts"). Each Railway Police Compartment is staffed by a C.P.R. Group.
While being primarily staffed by C.P.R. military personnel, a civilian Public Security Official directs the Railway Police Compartment; he corresponds with the Director of the relevant State Railways Compartment for everything concerning the good performance of the railway police service. In particular, he arranges the surveillance and escort services according to a plan drawn up in agreement with the Director of the State Railways Compartment. The public security official, moreover, carries out requests for information from the railway offices on the aspiring contractors and porters assigned to the airports, on the aspiring railway guardians, on the aspiring supervisors in the railway stations and on the concessions within the railway stations; in addition, the public security official informs the railway administration offices of persons who are currently in disputes with the railway administration.

Central organisation

The Railway Police Service is organised, at the central level, in five offices, each directed by a Quaestor, 2nd Class:

• Office I - Planning and Coordination: The Office provides strategic planning and manages the coordination with the State Railways and the Railway Militia and with the dedicated Carabinieri units (mainly CC. Stations established in the proximity of the railway station);
• Office II - Analysis: The Office running the study and analysis of data on rail safety, monitors the technological innovation;
• Office III - Personnel and Material Resources: The Office develops strategies for employment of staff (including training) and is responsible for logistics;
• Office IV - Propaganda: The Office manages the propaganda for rail security;
• Office V - International Relations: The Office collaborates with the organs of the Railway Police of the neighbouring countries for the realization of joint services.

Airport Police Service

The Airport Police Service (Servizio Polizia Aeroportuale) is a specialised Public Security service, which consists of personnel trained in airport security, also in order to deter, prevent and counter terrorist acts. In addition to the traditional police and public security duties, the Airport Police act as the Air Navigation Police, such as aircraft control, complaints of breaches of aviation law and the surveillance of sensitive or confidential airport areas. Functionally, the Service depends on the Ministry of Transportations.

Present on the major airports of Italy, the Airport Police Service is competent throughout the national territory to ensure the traditional missions of the public security, air navigation police missions (such as aircraft control, findings of aviation law violations, judicial investigations following aircraft accidents and incidents), as well as the security missions of the airport security restricted areas.
The Airport Police Service personnel receive specific training in order to acquire a professional knowledge of this sector. Led by an Inspector General, assisted by a headquarters located in Rome, the Airport Police Service is articulated in two Airport Police Service Groups with 20 Airport Police Stations (located at major airports and are assisted by the nearest Territorial Police Stations) and several Airport Police Posts, which have less autonomy and personnel assigned. At the airports there are also the proper bodies of the Border Police which are kept separated.
The Airport Police Service has a national investigantion section and two subordinate investigantion units (north and south). The investigantion section is competent in the judicial field during air crashes in mainland Italy or abroad when it is a company either Italian or foreign but with Italian nationals.

Division X - Scientific Police and Forensics

Division X - Scientific Police and Forensics (It.: Divisione X - Polizia Scientifica e Medicina Legale) is the centralised structure which intervenes when particular expertise in the field of the natural sciences is required. The Division manages the Cabinets of Scientific Police (inter-provincial and provincial levels) and Signalling and Documentation Posts. From its establishment, which dates back to 1902, the Scientific Police has continually improved its ability to intervene and has acquired a great experience that has always placed at the service of citizens and institutions. All central and territorial echelons are staffed and led by police technicians of adequate rank; the Head of Division is customarily an official coming from the technicians' career.
The Division is centrally organised into four Sections, in turn subdivided into five or six Offices each, and an Institute:

• General and Legal Affairs Office;
• Section I - General Affairs and Support: General and Personnel Affairs Office; Resources Office; Training Office; Technical Support and Violent Crime Analysis Office; Forensics and Criminology-Applied Psychology Office; Information Systems Office;
• Section II - Identification services;
• Section III - Chemical and Electronic Investigations;
• Section IV - Ballistic and Biological Investigations;
• Criminal Technical Institute;
• Central Injuries Archive.

Current Head of Division is Director General of P.S. in charge of Special Office Pericle Coccia. The Divisional central offices consist of both CC.RR. and C.P.R. personnel.

Central Injuries Archive

The Central Injuries Archive (Archivio Centrale Ferite) is a support service for forensic medical issues. The Central Injuries Archive assists territorial and peripheral organizations with the identification of unknown injuries, provides case examples of known injuries and weapons for comparisons.

Territorial organisation

The Division of Scientific Police directs 5 Interregional Cabinets of Scientific Police in Milan, Padua, Rome, Palermo. The Interregional Cabinets, framed within the relevant Interregional Directorate of Public Security, have jurisdiction over photographic signalling, the Inspection of the Scientific Police, the electronic documentation in investigative services and the services of public policy, the design of the face in order to support identification, the exaltation of latent papillary imprints, fingerprint comparisons, graphic and ballistic investigations. They also have responsibility about the regeneration of the abraded serial numbers, documents and drugs examination. Interregional Cabinets of Scientific Police are staffed by CC.RR. personnel.
In each Regional Office of Public Security a Regional Cabinet of Scientific Police exists with coordination and administrative support functions. Such Cabinets are usually staffed with mixed (C.P.R. and CC.RR.) personnel.
The Provincial cabinets of Scientific Police are established in every Questura (with the exception of those where there is already the Interregional Cabinet) and are framed into the Anti-Crime Division. They have specific responsibility to carry out the Inspection of the Scientific Police and photographic identification. The activity of the provincial cabinets, if necessary, is coordinated by the leaders of Inter-provincial cabinets, which are directly involved in directing the operations of particular gravity. Usually, Provincial Cabinets have C.P.R. personnel.
The Signalling and documentation Posts are located at the Commissariats of Public Security particularly involved in combating crime and protecting public order and security. They have specific responsibility to carry out the technical inspection and photographic identification.

Advanced Surveillance Units

An Advanced Surveillance Unit (Italian: Unità di Sorveglianza Avanzata) is two or more policemen drawn from the local Cabinet of Scientific Police, in order to gather intelligence on the ground and to disrupt activists and deter anti-social behaviour during rallies and demonstrations. They use cameras, camcorders and audio recorders to conduct overt surveillance of the public and to gather intelligence against protesters: anybody who is active outside the sanctioned channels is filmed, identified, monitored, logged, and cross-checked.
The aim of Advanced Surveillance Units deployment during protests is to inhibit all protests, to conduct surveillance of independent and/or foreign journalists and to stop them. Advanced Surveillance Units are deployed both in uniform and in plainclothes.

Division XIII - Technical Services and Telecommunications and Post Police

Division XIII - Technical Services and Telecommunications and Post Police (It.: Divisione XIII - Servizi Tecnici e Telecomunicazioni e Polizia Postale e delle Telecomunicazioni) is one of the units of the Administration of Public Security, whose functions include the investigation of cybercrime. The Division is the central body of the Ministry of Interior for its safety and regularity of telecommunications services; while it is not a Special Inspectorate, it closely cooperates with the Ministry of Posts, Transportations and Communications.
The Division is the specialised department for all the control and suppression of unlawful falling within the field of communications, as well as postal illicit criminal activities by means of the Internet, and in general cybercrime. In addition, the Division is working closely with the Ministry of Communications, with the regional inspectorates of the Ministry of communications of economic development and other institutional and corporatist entities. It also performs criminal police investigations in general for all those crimes related to the computer-crime/cybercrime/social engineering, and for all the offences committed in place with the latest technology and tools, which aim to create or give damage to these technologies and tools.
The judicial police activities are mainly offences related to hacking, phone, privacy breaches, postal offences, intellectual property in telecommunications (in close cooperation with the G.R.d.F.), on-line child pornography, monitoring of radio and television frequencies, on-line frauds, money laundering, frauds with credit cards or debit cards, frauds related to home banking, political subversion, terrorism, drugs, arms and explosives, prostitution, as well as all traditional offences that have as their aim or tool telematics and computer network.
Current Head of Division is Oscar Pettinari.

Central organisation

The central organisation of the Post Police Division consists of a Secretariat and of three Services, which in turn group ten sections e other bodies.

• Head of Division;
• Secretariat;
• General Affairs Service;
• Post Police Service;
• Child Pornography Service;
• Infrastructure Protection Service.

Service for General Affairs

The General Affairs Service (Servizio per gli Affari Generali) is in charge for management and technical services of the Division, both for the management of the territorial network and for the technical management of confidential and strategic communication facilities. The General Affairs Service is directed by a senior official who has the same rank of the Section heads, but he is kept distinct and retains functional authority over them. The General Affairs Service deals mainly with support and coordination measures.
The coexistence of Division XI - Contracts and management of supplies, Section II - IT, telecommunications and technical systems, Office XVI - Support to the General Affairs Service of Postal Police and the General Affairs Service of the Post Police, established in 2016, is due to a compromise between supporters of Prefects' power in the field of public security, who managed to maintain Office XVI, and supporters of the public security autonomy from prefects' intereference, at least at a central level.
The General Affairs Service consists of three Sections:

• Section I - Coordination of the territorial organisation;
• Section II - Materiel evaluation;
• Section III - Telecommunications networks: tasked with cooperation with the Ministry of Posts, Transportations and Communications (including ESCOPOST and ESCORADIO offices).

Service for the Post Police

The Post Police Service (Servizio di Polizia Postale), based in Rome, coordinates the activities of the 21 postal police compartments, located in all the regional capitals (with exception of Veneto). The GRdF Informatic Offences Special Unit (Unità Speciale Reati Informatici, U.S.R.I.) is framed within the Post Police Service, in order to ensure the closest cooperation with the Division. The Post Police Service is directed by a senior official who has the same rank of the Section heads, but he is kept distinct and retains functional authority over them. The Service is headed by a First Class Quaestor, and is divided into five Sections:

• Section IV - Planning: Section care coordination and strategic planning of services and activities, manages the technical and legal issues of the nature of the sector and agreements with external entities. In addition, it is responsible for the archive management and for the management and security of the internal network. It consists of 5 offices.
• Section V - Forensic Computing: Section is responsible for the coordination and the technical and investigative support in the field of computer forensics. It consists of three technical offices.
• Section VI - Computer Related Crime: Section (composed of 9 offices) ensure coordination of the prevention and fight against cybercrime and violations on postal offenses, offenses relating to telephony, online fraud and e-commerce, protection of copyright, illegal on radio frequencies and electromagnetic pollution and on the subject of games, lotteries and betting. The Section provides for international cooperation and manages the Office of Analysis Cybercrime.

Service for the Repression of Child Pornography

The Service for the Repression of Child Pornography (Servizio per la Repressione della Pedopornografia) is responsible for the management of the National Centre for the Fight against Child Pornography. The Service therefore it elaborates the methodology and of the intervention strategy, as well as the coordination of activities to prevent and contrast.
The Service also has the task of collecting all reports, coming also from foreign police bodies and from public and private subjects engaged in the fight against child pornography, concerning sites that disseminate material concerning the sexual use of minors using the internet network and other networks of communication, as well as the managers and any beneficiaries of the related payments.
The Service for the Repression of Child Pornography is directed by a senior official who has the same rank of the Section heads, but he is kept distinct and retains functional authority over them. The Service consists of four Sections:

• Section VII - Information: Information gathering Office; Verification Office; Database Office.
• Section VIII - Operations: Blocking Office; Hacking Office; Internet Service Providers relations Office.
• Section IX - Research and Investigations: Web research Office; Investigations Office.
• Section X - Liaision: Child Pornography Observatory Office; Banks Office; INTERPOL liaision Office.

The Service constantly communicates with the Observatory for the fight against pedophilia and child pornography, an institutional liaison body, to which it provides its own data for the analysis and prevention of child abuse.

Service for Infrastructure Protection

The Service for Infrastructure Protection (Servizio per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture) is responsible for liaising with O.V.R.A. for cyber critical infrastructure protection. The Service carries out the activities of the Judicial Police for the prevention and suppression of crimes against the national interest infrastructure. The Service is responsible for the protection of the Italian banking system and the electronic payment system and to connect with the intelligence agencies for the prevention and fight against domestic and international terrorism and threats to national security conducted by computer. The Service consists of:

• Computer Emergency Response Team of the Ministry of Interior;
• National Computer Centre for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures;
• Central Office of Judicial Police.

Peripheral organisation

The 21 Compartments have regional jurisdiction and are generally headed by a Second Class Quaestor (or a C.P.R. Colonel). The Compartments in turn coordinate their respective Provincial Sections within their areas of jurisdiction. The sectional heads are generally Marshals.

Division XVII - Personal Security

Division XVII - Personal Security (It.: Division XVII - Sicurezza Personale, D.S.P.) is the entity responsible for the personal security. The Ministry of Interior, through the Directorate-General of Public Security, ensures the carrying out of personal protection services outside the Duce and the military.
The functional area of responsibility relates to the preservation and protection of eminent persons (both for institutional and political reasons) both domestic and foreign, as well as persons who are subject to hazards or threats, in the person of his or her family. Outside of the high political personalities, the dangers which the Central Directorate must respond to are of a terrorist nature or related to organized crime, drug trafficking, arms trafficking or radioactive material trafficking. Finally, the Division is responsible to avoid the dangers related to activities of foreign intelligence. The Division may also adopt measures to arrange flights to ensure the safety of the leading figures or other persons subject to dangers or threats.
The special tasks of the Division include the collection and analysis of all the information related to personal situations at risk that O.V.R.A., the Military Information Service, the Confidential Affairs Division, the judiciary, the police and security forces and the Militia are required to provide, taking care also connections with the provincial offices. The Division also deals with the services and personnel strategic and operational planning, technical training of personnel employed in the security services and the check of the special tools used for protection services and their supervision. Finally, the Division also provides the activation of emergency procedures.
The Division is a joint organization: it is headed by a Prefect of 2nd Class, by a Major General of the Royal Police Corps or of the Royal Carabinieri, or by a Consul General of the M.V.S.N. The head-quarters personnel can be assigned to the Division from all State administrations and corps, from all security forces, both Party and State ones, while the security services and surveillance are carried out from specialized offices and units of Public Security or the Militia.
For reasons of exceptional and temporary nature, drivers of vehicles in use at high personalities may be granted the powers and the functions of Agent of Public Security, in order to allow the performance of a more effective action to prevent and protect the life of these personalities. Drivers appointed Agents of Public Security are allowed to use in vehicles conducted siren and revolving blue light beacon. The Personal Protection Division consists of six Offices and a Central Advisory Commission:

• Office I - General Affairs and plans;
• Office II - Analysis;
• Office III - International relations: support to INTERPOL and relations with foreign police bodies for protection tasks;
• Office IV - Operations;
• Office V - Training;
• Office VI - Logistics;
• Central Advisory Commission.

Central Advisory Commission

The Central Advisory Commission (It: Commissione Consultiva Centrale) is a body of the Division; the Commission, at the request of the Divisional Head, provides its opinion on the adoption, modification and revocation of protection measures and surveillance, as well as on all other matters, related to measures of protection and supervision, that the Director deems to submit.
The Division uses the Commission for the adoption of protective and supervision measures. The Commission is chaired by the Divisional Head and consists of one representative from each of the police forces involved (including civilian officials), a representative of the O.V.R.A., a representative of the Militia, a representative of the Military Information Service, and three representatives of the National Fascist Party.

Section I - Central Protection Section

Section I - Central Protection Section (Sezione Centrale di Protezione, S.C.P.) implements special programs of protection and assistance to witnesses and other protected persons. The assistance programs include reintegration into social and working context. The Section also maintains relations with the Judicial bodies and Public Security peripheral organs, as well as with all the other ministries involved in the implementation of protective measures. The Section has as its own support structure 11 Inter-Provincial Operational Offices. The Section in turn consists of 6 Offices, led by Quaestors, 2nd Class (or equivalent): General and Anagraphic Affairs, Psychological support, Economic support, Witnesses, Collaborators of Justice and Special and Temporary Programs.

Peripheral organization

Any measure taken by the Director is communicated to the Prefect and Quaestor of the province affected by the execution of the decision adopted. In every Prefecture, as part of the Sixth Division, operates the Provincial Office for Personal Security, responsible for collection and preliminary analysis of information related to personal situations at risk, as well as information connections with the Central Directorate. The Office makes use of the police forces in the province (Public Security and others), M.V.S.N. and officers specifically designated and appointed. The Prefect convenes and presides special coordination meetings, with the participation of the Quaestor, the commanders of the other police forces that may be present in the Province, the M.V.S.N. Commander and the official in charge of the Office for Personal Security. It can also be called on the Federal Secretary of the P.N.F.
The Prefect, relying upon data collected and on coordination meetings, makes recommendations to the Central Directorate.

Division XVIII - Anti-Drug Services

The Division XVIII - Anti-Drug Services (It.: Divisione XVIII - Servizi Antidroga, D.S.A.) is the national office through which the Chief of Police, based on the directives received from the Minister of the Interior, ensures the coordination of the Police services for the prevention and repression of drug and psychotropic substance trafficking. The Division carries out the tasks of the Minister of the Interior regarding the prevention and repression of illicit trafficking in narcotic or psychotropic substances, maintains and develops relations with the corresponding services of the foreign police, also making use of the INTERPOL.
Furthermore, the Division promotes, participates and contributes to multilateral and bilateral international agreements on cooperation in anti-drug operations, carries out technical-legal consultancy activities, contributes to specific anti-drug training for Italian and foreign police forces, maintains and develops relations with the equivalent foreign offices and international organizations dedicated to combating drug trafficking, takes care of the collection and monitoring of data relating to the drug phenomenon in Italy, precursors and on new psychotropic substances, develops and takes care of the strategic and operational analysis of data, manages the network of anti-drug experts abroad, promotes and coordinates investigative activities on the national territory and abroad, arranges, directs and coordinates technically the special anti-drug operations provided for by law; provides assistance to international judicial cooperation in the area of competence.
Although almost all the Divisions of the Directorate General of Public Security are of a joint nature, the Anti-Drugs Division is the joint body par excellence alongside with Division VI - Criminal Police, consisting up equally of civilian Public Security Officers and personnel of the Royal Police Corps, the Royal Carabinieri and the Royal Guard of Finance. The Division is divided into four Sections and a Central Planning and Coordination Office:

• Central Office for Planning and Coordination;
• Section I - General Affairs;
• Section II - Operational support;
• Section III - Analysis;
• Section IV - Investigative activities.

Divisional Sections are headed by Inspectors General of Public Security, Brigade Generals of the Royal Carabinieri, Brigade Generals of the Royal Guard of Finance or Brigadier Generals of the Royal Police Corps.

Divisional Head

The Division is led, according to a three-year rotation criterion, by a:

• Director General of Public Security;
• Division General of the Royal Carabinieri;
• Division General of the Royal Guardia di Finanza;
• Major General of the Royal Police Corps

who has gained specific experience in the sector.

Central Office for Planning and Coordination

The Central Planning and Coordination Office works in collaboration with the competent offices of the General Directorate of Public Security and the other General Directorates and other public administrations for the unitary conduct of drugs and drug addiction prevention. In addition, the Office provides for the connection of the activities of competence with those of the Prefectures and with those of the National Fascist Party.

Section I - General Affairs

Section I - General Affairs (Sezione I - Affari Generali) deals with providing technical-legal advice, organizes anti-drug qualification and refresher courses for police officers. The Section also deals with general problems and maintains cooperation relations with foreign organizations. The Section consists of four Offices:

• Office I - Technical-legal advice;
• Office II - Qualification and refresher courses;
• Office III - Illicit trafficking;
• Office IV - Substance Abuse;

Offices are headed by Police Inspectors or by Colonels.

Section II - Operational Support

Section II - Operational Support (Sezione II - Sostegno alle operazioni) is the instrumental Section. It provides for the use of vehicles and the management of special vehicles for anti-drug operations, as well as for special operations. The Section also deals with the equipment for the anti-drug offices abroad, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, and the assignment of assets seized in anti-drug operations. Finally, it performs the functions of security secretariat and administrative support.

• Office I - Vehicles and special vehicles;
• Office II - Communications;
• Office III - Offices abroad;
• Office IV - Accounting and seized assets;
• Office V - Security Secretariat;
• Office VI - Translation and Interpreting.

Offices are headed by Police Inspectors or by Colonels.

Section III - Analysis and statistics

Section III - Analysis (Sezione III - Analisi) performs studies, research, and analyzes for the prevention and repression of illicit drug trafficking on the persons and organizations involved and maintains the Joint Police Database. The Section also controls the trade in precursors and basic chemicals and on the links between drug trafficking and other forms of crime: for this purpose it maintains relations with the Division VI - Criminal Police and with the competent Offices and Commands of the Police Forces. The Section includes four Offices:

• Office I - Studies and research;
• Office II - Analysis;
• Office III - Precursors and basic chemicals;
• Office IV - Criminal ramifications: it maintains relations with Division VI - Criminal Police and with the competent Offices and Commands of the Police Forces;
• Office V - Joint Police Database: for drugs-related matters;
• Office VI - Foreign databases: for drugs-related matters;
• Office VII - Computer chemical archive: for drugs-related matters;
• Office VIII - General Archives and Library
• Office IX - Statistics.

Offices are headed by Police Inspectors or by Colonels.

Section IV - Investigative activities

Section IV - Investigative Activities (Sezione IV - Attività Investigative) is the beating heart of the Anti-Drugs Division. The Section promotes and coordinates investigative activities on the national territory and abroad, orders, directs and coordinates special operations and maintains operational relations with the offices or commands of the Police forces, with the Interpol Offices and with the competent structures of the foreign police. Finally, it provides assistance in letters rogatory and other international judicial cooperation activities. In order to achieve its purposes, the Section consists of seven Offices:

• Office I - National investigations;
• Office II - Foreign investigations;
• Office III - Special Operations;
• Office IV - Operational relations;
• Office V - Investigative relations with INTERPOL;
• Office VI - Investigative relations with foreign drug offices;
• Office VII - Judicial assistance.

Offices are headed by Police Inspectors or by Colonels.

Carabinieri Training Command

Division IV - Police Schools and Training Institutes (Italian: Divisione IV - Scuole di Polizia e Istituti di Addestramento) deals with police training of both civilian officials and military personnel of all ranks. The task is particularly delicate because the upper echelons are deliberately differentiated and the Division has to amalgamate and create an unique esprit de corps.
Alongside the training to become a civilian official, the Division deals with the military training of the C.P.R.; this functional area includes the Regular Course of the Academy of Public Security (Corso Regolare dell'Accademia di Pubblica Sicurezza), which trains officer cadets, the Subofficers School (Scuola Sottufficiali) and the Agents Training Centre (Centro Addestramento Agenti).
Current Head of Division is Prefect, 1st Class Cristiano D'Ambrosi.

Police Training and Standards Commission

The Police Common Requirements Commission (Commissione per i Requisiti Comuni) is mandated to promote and maintain a high level of professional standards for all law enforcement and correctional officers. Its purpose is to promote a high level of training and standards for all law enforcement personnel, working in conjunction with relevant legislative offices.
Responsibilities of the Commission include developing and providing quality training and education, setting standards and providing assistance. The Commission elaborates standards for the selection and training of agents and officers of public security and of judicial police both at the entry and advanced level so as to improve their training and performance. Further, the Commission conducts research and evaluation needed to develop and improve its own standards and training based upon objective knowledge and the performance needs required.
The Commission is chaired by the Police Schools Division Head, currently Prefect, 1st Class Cristiano D'Ambrosi. It also consists of: a Vice-Prefect Inspector coming from other Directorates-General; a Vice-Prefect Inspector of the Public Security Administration; a Police Inspector; a C.P.R. Colonel; a CC.RR. Colonel; a C.P.P. Colonel; a Coast Guard Vessel Captain; a G.R.d.F. Colonel; a First Director of Local Police in charge of a Provincial Command; a First Director of Local Police in charge of a Municipal Command; a First Director of Local Police in staff position; a Colonel from the Gendarmerie forces of the Realms of the Italian Empire (in rotation; a Chief Superintendent for Montenegrin Police).
The Commission is supported by some Offices: General affairs Office; Police education research Office; Police standards and training Office; Assistance and support Office; Correctional education research Office; Correctional standards and training Office. A C.P.R. Captain provides secretariat tasks.

Academy of Public Securiity

The Academy of Public Security (Accademia di Pubblica Sicurezza) is the main educational institution for personnel destined to assume senior positions. The Academy of Public Security provides courses of instruction for cadets and application, refresher and specialization courses for officers of all militarised police forces. The purpose of the Academy of P.S. is to train officers who are really policemen, and not mere clean uniform and shaved beard controllers.
The organisation of courses is quite complex. The Academy of Public Security provides directly to C.P.R. officers their initial training, and provides Royal Carabinieri officers with police (investigative) training. On the other hand, both the Carabinieri Officers School and the Military Academy provide the Academy of Public Security of military training resources for C.P.R. officers. As for C.P.R., the Academy prepares officers for Celere Units, Traffic Police, Specialities and Institutes of Education, in addition to the Inspectorates and provincial Groups.
Students of the Academy of Public Security are assigned a daily allowance of an amount equal to half of the initial gross pay of the Carabiniere/Agent.

There is a number of career paths:

• Graduate civilian personnel: 9-months Accelerated Course of the Academy of Public Security (Corso Accelerato dell'Accademia di Pubblica Sicurezza) in order to achieve the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Public Security.
• High-school graduate civilian students and Marshals: 5-years Special Course of the Academy of Public Security (Corso Speciale dell'Accademia di Pubblica Sicurezza), in order to obtain a Law degree graduation and achieve, after two years from the enrolment, the rank of Additional Deputy Commissioner of Public Security.
• High-school graduate civilian students: 5-years Regular Course of the Academy of Public Security (Corso Regolare dell'Accademia di Pubblica Sicurezza) in order to achieve the rank of Lieutenant of the Royal Police Corps.

In addition, Marshals who are discharged from the Royal Police Corps and promoted to the rank of Additional Deputy Commissioner of P.S. are often directly employed in a 1-year long period consisting of both operational and study activity.

Specialization schools

The Public Security apparatus has several specialization schools and centres; as a rule, these schools are handled and operated by Division IV - Police Schools, although a few (especially the transportation service schools) are managed by the relevant Division. Often such schools and training centres train and educate also personnel coming from the Army, the G.R.d.F. and the M.V.S.N.

• Nautical and Diving Centre (Centro Nautico e Sommozzatori): managed and operated by the Coast Guard;
• Aircraft Pilots Training School (Scuola di Addestramento per piloti di aereo): managed and operated by the Royal Carabinieri, common to all Militarised Police Corps;
• Helicopter Pilots Training School (Scuola di Addestramento per piloti di elicottero): managed and operated by the Royal Carabinieri, common to all Militarised Police Corps;
• Air Specialists Training School (Scuola di Addestramento per specialisti di bordo): managed and operated by the Royal Carabinieri, common to all Militarised Police Corps;
• Mechanic Maintenance Training School (Scuola di Addestramento per meccanico e manutentore): common to all Militarised Police Corps;
• Alpine Police School (Scuola di Polizia Alpina): managed and operated by the Royal Carabinieri, common to all Militarised Police Corps and to Civilian officials;
• School of Judicial, Administrative and Investigative Police (Scuola di Polizia Giudiziaria, Amministrativa e Investigativa, Pol.G.A.I.), where police personnel is trained in the core matters.

Recruitment

The recruitment requirements for police personnel in police educational institutions are ostensibly the same across the Division and are also shared with the other military corps tasked with police duties, except for differences in age and education levels.
These requirements are: Italian citizenship and race; graduation from high school or equivalent; being aged 18 to 23 on 1 January of the examination year (the age limitation is 25 for university graduates); at least 1.65m tall for women and 1.70m for men; the standard of health stipulated in the competition decree; not known to indulge in drunkenness and gambling; not engagedin socio-culturally low and inferior jobs; not married or living with a foreigner or an Italian Jew or a Colonial Italian citizen; not engaged in antifascist political activities, anarchy and terrorist events; enrolled in the P.N.F.; not previously sentenced more than 6 months; no impediments to joining a security organization according to background check of family members; and no military service problem at the starting date of education programme.
The Minister of Interior has three quotas for each police entry school and course, the Chief of Police has two, while the Commandant-General of the C.P.R. has one quota for each C.P.R.-only school or course. Each of them has the right to ask the schools' directors that their recommended candidates be accepted into the school and that they be exempt from any of the normal application requirements. This phenomenon is in addition to any “unofficial instructions” issued.

Carabinieri Border Police Command

Division VIII - Border Police (Divisione VIII - Polizia di Frontiera) is tasked with securing and protecting Italy's international borders from unlawful entry of both personnel and materiel. Key tasks include: fixed-point surveillance from border forts and annexes; security patrolling between fixed sites and ports of entry; interdiction of personnel, goods, and equipment in the international border regions and the coastal area; and detention, processing, and exploitation of dissidents and contraband. The Division is organised into 10 Border Police Regions and is the body responsible for all the management of the activities related to land and sea borders protection, in cooperation with the M.V.S.N., Carabinieri, the Royal Guard of Finance and the Navy (Coast Guard). Current Head of Division is C.P.R. Major General Pietro Ruffolo.
Border police are divided into ground, sea and air border police services. The border police serivce is carried out:

• By the Royal Police Corps under the direction of a civilian official of Public Security at airport, seaport, railway and highway accesses, as well as at border accesses in provincial capitals and in Municipalities where it exists a Commissariat of P.S. staffed by the C.P.R.;
• By the Royal Carabinieri under the guidelines of a civilian official of Public Security at ground and sea accesses without any presence of the C.P.R.;
• By the Coast Guard under the guidelines of the Border Police Division;
• By the M.V.S.N. (all branches) as support to Coast Guard, Royal Carabinieri and C.P.R. Usually an O.V.R.A. officer is stationed at commissariats. It is not uncommon for contingents of the 4th "M" Regiment of the Italian National Royal Guard to be deployed at M.V.S.N. commands of the Italian-French border in support to Provincial Legions, while Border Militia detachments on the Eastern Border usually do not receive G.N.R. reinforcements (also due to the more intense presence of the regular military).

The Royal Guard of Finance provide specialised personnel in order to deal with custom duties, but also for additional surveillance.

Central organisation

The Division is subdivided into three Sections: General Affairs, Borders and Immigration contrast.

• Section I - General and legal affairs: the Section deals with the planning and planning of objectives, the management of personnel and means, the collection and processing of data relating to immigration, the issuance of passports. The Section is divided into three Offices: legal affairs office, organisation office, accounting office.
• Section II - Borders: the Section is the element tasked with the management of 53 air, sea and land ports of entry within Italy, responsible for securing ports of entry from internal and external threats and for coordinating Ministerial support to the land points of Entry. The Section manages 18 Border Police Sectors (responsible for land ports, airports and land accesses), 15 Border Police Offices at sea ports, 20 Border Police Offices at airports and 12 Border Police Offices at integrated air and seaports. This Section does not have authority over the numerous tenant ministry organisations located at each of the ports. In some cases, there can be up to 10 different ministries working at a land port, making coordination and efficient port operation quite difficult and the Prefect's activity is under pressure. Section II - Borders liasies with the Coast Guard for maritime border security tasks.
• Section II - Immigration contrast: the Section deals with immigration contrast and the police cooperation, both at the international and at the Empire level. The Section is divided into four Offices: Immigration Contrast and Foreigners without Permits Office; Sea contrast and Liaison Officers Office (in liaisson with the Coast Guard); International and Empire Relationships Office; Stay Permits and Immigration Offices Coordination Office. The Section deals with Division III - Imperial Borders and Internal and Authorised Migration of the Directorate-General for Public Security of the Italian Empire.

Ground Border Police Service

The Ground Border Police Service (Servizio di Polizia di Frontiera Terrestre) is carried out by the following offices:

• Zone Offices;
• Sector offices;
• Fixed posts.

The Zones are determined by the border section corresponding to each of the four neighboring States. The Zone offices are:

• I Zone - "France" - based in Turin;
• II Zone - "Switzerland" - based in Como;
• III Zone - "Germany" - based in Bolzano;
• IV Zone - "Yugoslavia" - based in Trieste.

A civilian official of public security with the rank of Inspector General is in charge of each Zone. He directs the action of the dependent Sectors and supervises the good performance of the operations, gives the special service rules (also in harmony with the local Prefects and territorial military commanders), reports monthly to the Minister of the Interior, communicates to the territorial military commander all news or information of military interest, directs personnel and exercises disciplinary power.
Sectors include one or more road crossings, railways or lake landings authorised to transit, and one or more non-authorised crossings or one or more crossings reserved for persons provided with a special pass. The Sector Office is headed by a Public Safety Officer of Police Inspector. Where no appropriate public security offices are set up, the local Questura or the Commissariat Public Security perform the functions of Sector Office. There are 18 Border Police Ground Sector Offices. The Sector Office performs the service of the border crossing point to which it is assigned, supervises the functioning of the crossings included in the Sector, directs and supervises the activity of the supervisory posts of the various police bodies. The Royal Carabinieri, the GRdF, and the M.V.S.N. contribute to the completion of border services with fixed places; the Carabinieri, through their ordinary territorial organisation, supervise the area of the territory behind the frontier, with particular attention to the villages near the border.

Maritime border police services

In major ports there is a Seaport Border Police Office. It provides the border police services, reporting directly to the Minister the most important incidents, and to the local Questura for the facts that may have an impact on the public order and security. The Seaport Border Office maintains relations with the Coast Guard and the Port Captaincy, and helps to ensure compliance with the instructions given by the Port Commander and the other authorities, provides for all tasks of public order and security, depending on the provincial authority of public security and contributes to ensuring the protection of the maritime domain.
Personnel of the Royal Police Corps depends on the relevant Provincial Group Command. The G.R.d.F. contributes to border police services during normal service activities. Currently, there are 15 Seaport Border Police Offices.
Equally important to prevent and repress clandestine entry of people it is the action carried out along the "open" maritime border. In fact, the control device at the land borders is further supplemented by specific surveillance plans at sea and on the coasts that see the participation of the Public Security Administration, the Coast Guard and the Navy, engaged with men and vehicles in contrasting the immigration.

Airport border police services

In the main civilian airports of the State, used permanently to the traffic of people and goods, the air border police service is carried out by an "Airport Border Police Office". The Office is in charge of the border police, which it exercises through public security personnel and the Carabinieri. There are 20 Airport Border Police Offices; at other airports and airfields, border police functions are entrusted to the local Questura or to the Carabinieri.
The Office provides the border police, communicating to the Minister the most significant incidents and to the competent local police offices of the facts that may relate to the order and public security and maintains relations with the direction of the airport regarding the border police.

Specialised Units for Sensitive Flights Security

The Specialised Units for Sensitive Flights Security (Unità Specializzate Sicurezza Voli Sensibili, U.S.Si.Vo.S.) are two units part of the Border Police Office at the Roma-Fiumicino and Milano-Malpensa Airports, which deal exclusively with airport security services in the areas used for check-in and flight boarding. They target flights heading to countries considered to be at high risk of a terrorist attack, such as the United States of America and Israel.
The specialised units are based at the Fiumicino airport (Rome) and the Malpensa airport (Milan); at the head of each Unit there is a Civilian Official of Public Security, who is employed by the relevant Border Police Office. This Unit is placed in the organisation chart of the Border Police Office (within the Prevention and Security Sector), generally headed by a C.P.R. Captain or Lieutenant.

Territorial organisation

On the ground, the Border Police is subdivided into:

• 18 Border Police Ground Sectors (ground-based entry points);
• 15 Seaport Border Police Offices;
• 20 Airport Border Police Offices;
• 12 Border Police Offices at integrated air and seaports.

Inspectorates of Public Security

Inspectorates and Special Offices of Public Security which have no territorial jurisdiction but are established for special tasks of surveillance and protection. Inspectorates depend directly on the Chief of Police. Each Inspectorate has at its disposal a Group of the Royal Police Corps or of the Royal Carabinieri, with the exception of the Inspectorate of P.S. "Viminale", which operates the Autonomous Group.

• Inspectorate of Public Security "Vaticano" - for the protection of the Holy Father and vigilance of the Holy See
• Inspectorate of Public Security "Palazzo Venezia" - for the protection of the Chief of the Government and for the surveillance of the seat of government
• Inspectorate of Public Security "Chamber of Fasci and Corporations" - for the protection of the President and the supervision of the registered
• Inspectorate of Public Security "Viminale" - for the protection of the Minister of the Interior, under-secretaries and the monitoring of the complex of the Interior Ministry. Special Offices of Public Security at some ministries depend on the Inspectorate at the Ministry of Interior. These Special Offices of P.S. are in turn in charge both to guarantee the Ministry security and to provide relevant police services overall direction.
  

Inspectorates of Public Security are headed by officials of Public Security with the position of Inspector General.

Special Inspectorate of Public Security at the Ministry of Health

The Special Inspectorate of Public Security at the Ministry of Health (Ispettorato Speciale di P.S. presso il Ministero della Salute) is placed directly under the Minister of Health; members of the Inspectorate have therefore the powers of the Health Inspectors; therefore they may act, by day and by night, in all those places where there is production, administration, storage or sale of products intended for human or animal use. These powers are exercised independently from the powers of agents and officers of judicial police, as well as from the powers of agents and officers of public security.
The Inspectorate also has responsibility in the field of international prophylaxis of infectious and contagious diseases, air, border and maritime health, as well as manufacture and sale of medicines. In addition, it oversees the cosmetics and herbal medicine, on the production of medical devices, medical devices and diagnostics, hygiene and public health, and animal health. Finally, the Inspectorate oversees the production and trade of legal drugs for the preparation of pharmaceuticals. The most serious and dangerous adulteration come very often by the operator located at a considerable distance from each other, so the activities are beyond the control of local authorities, subject to territorial limitations, but can be well contrasted by the Inspectorate, characterised by a top-down organisation, and thus be able to have a global vision.
Officers, Officials and Marshals of the Inspectorate are carefully selected according to a specific attitude and investigative experience, according to an adequate degree (preferably in technical matters) and the successful completion of a course lasting two months. The troops is also subject to ongoing training, but does not have constraints with respect to the qualification. The Health Inspectorate (as it is often colloquially nicknamed) and the Scientific Police Division often collaborate for the purpose of investigation, and the exchange of personnel and knowledge is common.
Lectures and exercises are carried out by officials of the Ministry of Health, researchers from the Institute of Health and Officers and Officials of the Inspectorate; students are taught the concepts of chemistry, parasitology, microbiology, food science and product category. The professional training is regularly updated and enriched with courses and seminars, during which contingent problems are addressed and developed operating systems for more effective action against the adulteration and supervision in the health sector in general.
The Special Inspectorate is divided into:

• 1 Central Office, commanded by an Inspector General, based in Rome;
• 1 Deputy Commander, with the rank of Quaestor 2nd Class , who has direct responsibility for operating activities;
• 1 Office Command, headed by a Deputy Quaestor, for the coordination of operational aircraft purposes, logistics and personnel management;
• 3 Detached Groups, supported by officials (Quaestors 2nd Class or Deputy Quaestors), based in Milan, Rome and Naples. Detached Groups are placed directly under the Deputy Commander;
• 37 Adulteration and Health Teams (Squadre Antisofisticazione e Salute, SAS), the executive bodies commanded by Commissioners or Marshals, located in the 21 regional capitals and in several provincial capitals. Teams are placed in the employ of the respective Detached Groups.

The operational work carried out by the Inspectorate develops through three main operating modes. First of all, the Inspectorate conducts investigation proceedings, which consists of investigations to stamp out illegal activities in the specific field of adulteration, food and health care fraud. Such investigations are very long and laborious, requiring investigative acumen, outstanding professionalism and knowledge of the socio-economic context in which they operate; judicial police investigations in the field of food adulteration are conducted with operational criteria that substantially differ from the normal law enforcement techniques.
In addition to investigations, the Inspectorate uses also monthly planned checks, in one or more areas of intervention throughout the national territory and, finally, control services in the national targets previously identified, planned in consultation with the Ministry of Health. These are monitoring operations on particular sectors of the productive, commercial and socio-ethical spheres, aimed at ascertaining the exact application of laws and regulations and to obtain useful statistics also memories to verify the effectiveness of the control and to identify areas most at risk on which to bring together the most appropriate interventions.

Special Inspectorate of Public Security at the Ministry of National Culture

The Special Inspectorate of Public Security at the Ministry of National Culture (Ispettorato Speciale di P.S. presso il Ministero della Cultura Nazionale) has the task to deal with, using effective tools and targeted interventions, the alarming phenomenon of cultural and monumental impoverishment of Italy. The Inspectorate is functionally subordinate to the Minister of National Culture, Tourism and Sport. The Inspectorate carries out judicial police investigations, combating all offences about the Italian cultural heritage. In particular, it focuses on clandestine excavations at archaeological sites, theft and illegal trafficking of artwork, on damage to monuments and archaeological sites, on the illegal export of cultural property and on forgery of works of art. In addition, the Inspectorate also fights recycling operations related to illegal trafficking in cultural objects. For these purposes, the Inspectorate also performs routine surveillance on exhibitions, fairs, auctions both in Italy and abroad as well as against antique dealers, restorers and art dealers.
As specialised body, the Inspectorate also operates the database about cultural offences, both against the material heritage and against the national spirit and cultural dote, and supports (for technical surveys) the regular surveillance and monitoring of cultural sites, including those protected by the UNESCO. The surveillance is carried out in close relationship and liaison with Universities, the Arts Superintendence, and Catholic Church authorities.
The Inspectorate is led by the Inspector, who ranks Inspector General (assisted by a Lieutenant Colonel for the CPR Group), and is composed of a central Division, in Rome, which in turn is articulated on a Support Section and on an Operations Sections.
The Support Section deals with logistics and administrative support, and includes the Secretariat, the Civilian Personnel Office, the Operations Planning Office and the Data Processing Office. The Operations Sections organises and carries out the most important operations, and provides operational supports to the peripheral structure. The Operations Sections includes four themed offices: the Antiques Office, the Archaeology Office, the Office for Falsification and the Office of Contemporary Art.
Finally, the peripheral structure, which is directed and coordinated by the Deputy Inspector (ranking Quaestor, 2nd Class), is articulated on 15 Teams, which have regional or interregional responsibility.

Inspectorate General for the General Affairs

The Inspectorate General for General Affairs (Ispettorato Generale per gli Affari Generali, I.G.A.G.) has the task of monitoring the execution of orders and directives of the Minister and the Chief of Police, to report on the activities carried out by the offices and peripheral organs and verify the effectiveness of the services. The Inspectorate also has supervisory functions in the field of safety and health in the workplace and leans to the Interregional Directorates for territorial decentralization. Finally, the General Inspectorate has also some functions of inspection and control on the activities undertaken by the Central Offices.
The Inspectorate General is headed by a Director, ranking Director General of Public Security in charge of Special Office, who directs a corps of 28 Inspectors General, who depend directly on the Director, and four Sections. The Inspectors General are each assisted by a 3-4 men team.

• Section I - General Affairs
• Section II - Internal Affairs
• Section III - Inspection and Control
• Section IV - Safety on the Workplace

Section I - General Affairs

Section I - General Affairs (Sezione I - Affari Generali) deals with general affairs, organisational, technical and logistical support, personnel management and training, the Archives, correspondence and the Security Secretariat. The General Affairs Section also provides assistance to the Director for planning programs and objectives in the context of strategic and management control.

Section II - Internal Affairs

Section II - Internal Affairs (Sezione II - Affari Interni) works directly under the Director and performs, at the request of the Minister of the Interior or of the Chief of Police, investigative and informative acquisition concerning facts or situations concerning the execution of orders from the Minister and from Chief of Police, as well as on the efficiency of the services and the correct administrative management. The Section also carries out information activities regarding the control of employees.

Section III - Inspection and Control

Section III - Inspection and Control (Sezione III - Ispezione e Controllo) takes care of all the inspections and acts as a link between the central offices of the Inspectorate and the Provincials. The Office is responsible for assessing the general performance of offices, mainly in terms of efficiency and correct asset and financial management. It also has the task of formulating evaluations and proposals to improve efficiency. The Inspection and Control Section also analyses the results of the verification activities and provides the summary of the results of inspection, indicating the issues raised. The section is divided into two offices: Office for Coordination and Inspection Activity and the Management and Studies Office.

Section IV - Safety in the Workplace

Section IV - Safety in the Workplace (Sezione IV - Sicurezza sul luogo di lavoro) carries out the surveillance activities on health, health and safety in the workplace of the offices of the Public Security Administration, in collaboration with the National Corps of Fire Militia. The Safety in the Workplace Section is responsible for verifying compliance with the requirements in the restricted areas of the Ministry of Interior and the peripheral offices. The Section has three offices; two offices are governed by a Director of Division (Medical) of Public Security, and an office is ruled a Director of Division (Technical) of Public Security. The Vigilance Office deals with programmed and emerging surveillance at all restricted facilities of the Ministry of Interior; the Studies Office manages the study and analysis of the current legislation for the purpose of training and retraining of doctors in charge of the specific field of supervision; finally, the Technical Office carries out studies and consultancy, technical surveys carried out in the workplace and on construction sites in areas dependent on the Ministry of Interior.
The Section Head is a physician with the rank of Rank V - Inspector General, while the deputy head is a military physician with the rank of Colonel.

Provincial administration of P.S.

Under the Ministry of the Interior it is also located the peripheral structure of the Administration of Public Security, whose mainframe is the provincial boundary. At the provincial level the figure of the Prefect is characterised by a dual role: he is responsible for the implementation of the ministerial directives and the direction of the police, and is also responsible for provincial order and public security.
In particular, the Prefect is not part of the chain of command which the Quaestor belongs to; however, the Quaestor operates under the Prefect. In addition, the Prefect is hierarchically subordinate to the Minister of Interior. The Prefect prepares plans for control of the territory, which the Quaestor must implement.
The Podestà, however, in his capacity as Local Authority of Public Security, is framed in a position of functional subordination to both the Prefect and Quaestor; he can be called to work in the fields of competence for the best performance of the function of public security.
There are also some police offices which are not under the Quaestor's command as Police official, but are under his direction in his capacity as head of the Public Security service in the province: these offices are, usually, Services detachments; finally, Celere units are not under Quaestor's command nor direction and neither under local Group Commander's jurisdiction, having their own chain of command. The Prefect, however, can use all of Local Police, Police, M.V.S.N., G.N.R. units, offices and services in the Province, if he deems that the situation requires so.

Provincial Commission for the Public Order and Security

The Provincial Commission for the Public Order and Security is a consultative commission established at each Prefecture. The consists of the Prefect, the Quaestor, the Federal Secretary of the National Fascist Party, of the Commander of the local Provincial Group of the Royal Police Corps, of the Commander of the local Carabinieri Group, and of the Commander of the local Provincial Legion or their delegates.

Territorial Commission for Security

The Territorial Commission for Security's task is to conduct periodic the territory of the state of security analysis and to take joint action to improve the safety conditions of every citizen and every public place. The Commission is established in every municipality with a population exceeding 20,000 inhabitants, chaired by the Prefect of the province or his delegate, and consists of the local Podestà, of the local Political Secretary, the provincial Commander of the GRdF or his delegate, the Quaestor the province or his delegate (usually a Carabinieri officer) and of the commander of the municipal police.

Questura

The performance of police services is provided by provincial and local offices. In the capital city of the province, it functions, dependent on the Prefect, a Public Security bureau headed by a Quaestor (It: "Questore") and named "Questura". In other smaller centres are established detached Offices of Public Security, headed by a Public Security official reporting to the Prefect and the Quaestor. The most populous cities are divided into districts or sections, each with a specific Office of Public Security subject to the Questura. It is to be noted that "Quaestor" is both a rank and an office: not all Quaestors are in service at provincial Questure, but all Questure are headed by a Quaestor, of 1st or 2nd Class according the importance of the location; in all cases the provincial Quaestors organise frequent meetings during which the commanders of the provincial Questura and the commanders of the special units which are deployed in the province and are not outside his command analyse the investigative findings and plan joint operational activities.
In municipalities where an office of public security is not established the Podestà exercises the functions of an officer of public security under the direction and dependence of the Prefect and the Quaestor.
There are Identification Cabinets at Questure headquarters which, together with the central identification services, facilitate the service identification of the culprits.
The offices of the Questura are divided into four divisions: the first (cabinet) waits to services more directly aimed at the maintenance of order, the second (police) provides for the discovery of the crime and is maintained for such purposes, in direct contact with the judicial authorities and the third (administrative police) exercises functions of a preventive nature, while the territorial control activity is performed by the fourth Division.

Territorial Police Station

The Territorial Police Station (Italian: Stazione Territoriale di Polizia) is the lowest operational unit of the Public Security apparatus, articulated on the organic forces ranging from a minimum of 4 to over 20 units; it is the direct and most visible legacy of the Royal Carabinieri Stations, and in most cases they are still operated by the Carabinieri. Stations are staffed only with military agents and subofficers, commanded by a Subofficer of the minimum rank of Marshal. The station is responsible in a very specific area: large portions of the civilian infrastructure or city, or one or more municipalities. The Station Commander is responsible for direct control of land and related institutional activities. The national soil is so carefully covered by the dense network of stations of the Royal Police Corps and Royal Carabinieri, which are also the custodians of the first task of protecting public order and safety within the area they encompass, as well as the first line of military police and counter-espionage activities. The Station Commander (It: Comandante di Stazione) has several duties: he has the immediate direction of institutional service within his jurisdiction, where carries out the investigation, both proactive and delegated by the Prosecutor, as Public Security officer he intervenes in public and private disputes and exercises all initiatives in order to take appropriate preventive measures against socially dangerous people and, from a strictly managerial point of view, he is responsible for technical and operational using, for discipline and staff training, as well as for the properties, vehicle, computer and electronic equipment and furnishings. Stations are divided into three distinct sections:

• 1st category: the stations are placed with an operational focus and a less open to the public 8 hours per day.
• 2nd category: the stations are located which have a greater operational focus and are prepared to receive the public 14 hours a day distributed in 2 shifts from 8.00 to 22.00.
• 3rd category: the stations are those of crucial importance and cover the entire 24 hours through the system of shifts.

Regardless the category, each station is permanently manned. The most experienced non-commissioned officers are assigned to the command of the 3rd category stations, while the criterion of seniority determines the positions of command in the 2nd and 1st category. The station is the central element of territorial control and they are located in buildings specially constructed or upgraded in order to promote an effective defence. The premises of the station include a security prison, a chamber of discipline, a kitchen and a dining hall, housing the commander, one double every two agents, and, if married, one for each room and a garage. The stations, according to their own staff and to operational needs, can organise territorial mobile patrols, although it is not strictly required to do so.
The Station reports to the relevant Company/Subgroup commander for military, personnel and disciplinary matters, as well as for military police duties, and to the head of the Commissariat for all other operational and functional police activities. Territorial Police Stations are usually responsible for more than one municipality, but the Carabinieri Marshal who is the Station Commander is the Local Authority of Public Security only in the municipality where the Station is located in and only if in that municipality there is not a Questura or a Detached Commissariat of Public Security.

See also

• Law enforcement in the Kingdom of Italy
• Chief of Police of the Kingdom of Italy