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46-582: Tayside Police was a territorial police force covering the Scottish council areas of Angus , Dundee City and Perth and Kinross (the former Tayside region) until 1 April 2013, at which point it was subsumed into Police Scotland . The total area covered by the force was 2,896 square miles (7,500 km) with a population of 388,000. The force operated from 27 police stations and has an establishment of 1078 police officers , 151 special constables and 594 support staff, as of February 2008. Tayside Police

92-706: A tricorne . Its use now is reserved for ceremonial parades and duty outside public buildings, together with the army-style tunic and trousers previously worn. For other occasions a cap or a beret is worn. The historic blue, white and red uniform of the Guardia is now retained only for the Civil Guard Company of the Royal Guard and the gastadores (parade markers) of the Civil Guard Academy. A modernised new style of working uniform

138-569: A member of the Guardia Civil , participated with other military forces in the failed 23-F coup d'état . Along with 200 members of the Guardia Civil , he briefly took hold of the lower house of the Cortes before the coup collapsed following a nationally televised address by King Juan Carlos , who denounced the coup. The Guardia Civil as a police force, has had additional tasks given to it in addition to its traditional role. It

184-630: Is the federal-level police service. It also acts as the provincial police service in every province except for Ontario , and Quebec , which operate provincial police services, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador , which is served by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary . The RCMP is also contracted to act as the territorial police force in Nunavut , Yukon and the Northwest Territories in addition to being

230-680: Is the largest police force in Spain, in terms of area served. Today, they are primarily responsible for policing and/or safety regarding the following (but not limited to) areas and/or safety related issues (given in no special order): The Guardia Civil has been involved in operations as peacekeepers in United Nations sponsored operations, including operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Angola , Congo , Mozambique , Nicaragua , Haiti , East Timor and El Salvador . They also served with

276-571: Is the main badge of the Civil Guard; it must, therefore, be kept spotless. Once lost, it is never recovered". The Music Unit of the Civil Guard (Spanish: Unidad de Música de la Guardia Civil ) is the military band of the Civil Guard and is one of multiple in the Armed Forces. It is officially part of the guard's General Directorate. Since its creation in 1844, it has had musical infantry and cavalry formations through various ranks. Only

322-518: Is the use of such a force in East Timor in substitution for Indonesian National Police . Civil Guard (Spain) The Civil Guard (Spanish: Guardia Civil ; [ˈɡwaɾðja θiˈβil] ) is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain. As a national gendarmerie , it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the authority of both the Ministry of

368-636: The Guardia Civil is known as la benemérita ("the well-remembered"). They served in the Spanish colonies , including Cuba , Puerto Rico , the Philippines , Spanish Guinea and Spanish Morocco . The Guardia Civil has a sister force in Costa Rica also called the Guardia Civil . The Costa Rican 'guardias' often train at the same academy as regular Spanish officers. During

414-481: The Guardia Civil was reinforced with the members of the Carabineros , the "Royal Corps of Coast and Frontier Carabiniers", following the disbandment of the carabinier corps. Critics of the Guardia Civil have alleged numerous instances of police brutality because of the organisation's association with Franco's regime. The fact that the Guardia largely operated in mostly rural and isolated parts of

460-667: The Guardia Civil were employed in Spain's overseas territories. These included three tercia (regiments) in the Philippines and two companies in Puerto Rico prior to 1898. Over six thousand Civil Guards, both indigenous and Spanish, were serving in Cuba in 1885 and smaller units were subsequently raised in Ifni and Spanish Guinea . Following the Civil War, under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939–1975),

506-646: The Dundee City council area . The work of the force was overseen by the Tayside Police Joint Board , whose 18 members are nominated by the respective councils (7 by Dundee, 6 by Perth & Kinross, 5 by Angus). Tayside Police were the first in Scotland and the UK to pilot new social media software, MyPolice, launched on 17 January 2011. In a three-month pilot, ten local community officers from

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552-693: The G8 Conference in Scotland in 2005 or COP26 officers of the Metropolitan Police who are on protection duties anywhere in the United Kingdom and when taking a person to or from a prison . The United Nations (UN) has operated territorial police forces in those parts of countries which have been under control of the UN from time to time. These were usually formed from police personnel on loan from member countries. A recent example

598-536: The Iraqi Civil War , the GAR have been deployed to Iraq to train and assist Iraqi federal police in the fight against ISIS militants. The first hymn was composed between 1915 and 1916 by Asunción García Sierra (who wrote the lyrics) and Ildefonso Moreno Carrilllo (who composed the music) as a school hymn. In the 1920s, Lieutenant Colonel José Osuna Pineda was assigned to the center as Head of Studies and arranged

644-532: The National Police deals with safety in urban situations. Most cities also have a Municipal Police Force . The three forces are nationally co-ordinated by the Ministry of the Interior . The Civil Guard is usually stationed at casas cuartel , which are both minor residential garrisons and fully-equipped police stations . The Guardia Civil was founded as a national police force in 1844 during

690-719: The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency , into a single service covering the whole of Scotland. Police Scotland will have its headquarters at the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan in Fife. Legacy Tayside command structure: Positions subsumed into the unified Police Service of Scotland “Police Scotland” from 1 April 2013. Currently the Chief Constable is Iain Livingstone QPM who

736-537: The Spanish Civil War , the Guardia Civil forces split almost evenly between those who remained loyal to the Republic, 53% of the members (which changed their name to Guardia Nacional Republicana – "Republican National Guard") and the rebel forces. However, the highest authority of the corps, Inspector General Sebastián Pozas , remained loyal to the republican government. Their contribution to

782-580: The armed forces . It has both a regular national role and undertakes specific foreign peacekeeping missions and is part of the European Gendarmerie Force . As a national gendarmerie force, the Civil Guard was modelled on the French National Gendarmerie and has many similarities. As part of its daily duties, the Civil Guard patrols and investigates crimes in rural areas, including highways and ports, whilst

828-638: The federal police force in those Canadian territories. A separate Sahrawi indigenous unit serving the Spanish colonial government was the Policia Territorial . This gendarmerie corresponded to the Civil Guard in metropolitan Spain . It was commanded by Spanish officers and included Spanish personnel of all ranks. In the United Kingdom (UK) the phrase is gaining increased official (but not yet statutory ) use to describe

874-451: The Civil Guard and the Royal Guard, as well as many Army cavalry and artillery units retained mounted bands with cavalry trumpeters at the time while the infantry of both the Army and Civil Guard had bugle bands then (formerly corps of drums composed of drummers and fifers). It was not until 19 November 1859 when a unified band appeared for the first time. Other bands would be formed throughout

920-785: The Civil Guards in Afghanistan shifted focus to training up local security forces in the country. In that period, the counter-terrorism branch of the Guardia Civil ; the Unidad de Acción Rural (UAR) were deployed to Afghanistan to train the Afghan National Police as part of ISAF 's Police Advisor Team (PAT) formerly the Police Operative Mentoring and Liaison Team (POMLT) In addition to el instituto armado ("the armed institution"),

966-528: The European Union. They maintained their services until 2008. In that period, the Agrupación de Tráfico (Traffic Group), Jefatura Fiscal y de Fronteras (Customs and Revenue Service), Policía Judicial (Judicial Police), and Seguridad Ciudadana (Public Order and Prevention service) have also had their deployments to Afghanistan for the peacekeeping efforts. After 2009, the mission of

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1012-746: The General Directorate of the Corps and with 50 instrumentalists belonging to the Jefatura de Enseñanza. More recently, according to the resolutions of 28 June 2004 and 14 February 2006, the two music units were unified, constituting the current band which reports to the General Subdirectorate of Personnel and is administratively attached to the General Affairs Service. A small mounted band is in service with

1058-459: The Interior and the Ministry of Defence . The role of the Ministry of Defence is limited except in times of war when the Ministry has exclusive authority. The corps is colloquially known as the benemérita (the meritorious or the reputables). In annual surveys, it generally ranks as the national institution most valued by Spaniards, closely followed by other law enforcement agencies and

1104-571: The Republican war efforts were invaluable, but proved effective on both sides in urban combat. The proportion of Guardia Civil members that supported the rebel faction at the time of the 1936 coup was relatively high compared to other Spanish police corps such as the Guardias de Asalto and the Carabineros ( Real Cuerpo de Carabineros de Costas y Fronteras ), where when the Civil War began over 70% of their members stayed loyal to

1150-516: The Royal Guard's Mounted Band of the Royal Escort Squadron. The element of uniformity that characterizes the Civil Guard is the tricorn , which is the official service's headgear in full and service dress uniforms. Other pieces of headgear such as peaked caps , berets or garrison caps are currently used in addition to this one. Throughout its history, other headwear of various types, colors and shapes have been used, including

1196-822: The Security Group's Civil Guard Cavalry Squadron, with its barracks and stables in Valdemoro, administratively under the supervision of the Young Guardsmen's College. Unlike other mounted bands, they only use small fanfare trumpets ( clarines de caballeria and trompetas bajas ). They continue the traditions of the Civil Guard cavalry since its foundation. In 2022 the Mounted Band of the Civil Guard Cavalry Squadron finally received its own kettledrummer, bringing it in line with

1242-619: The Southern Perthshire area tested the software by replying to community concerns, and using Twitter to engage with communities. An Act of the Scottish Parliament , the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 , created a single Police Service of Scotland - known as Police Scotland - with effect from 1 April 2013. This merged the eight regional police forces in Scotland (including Tayside Police), together with

1288-566: The Spanish Republic. Loyalist General of the Guardia Civil José Aranguren , commander of the 4th Organic Division and Military Governor of Valencia , was arrested by the victorious Francoist troops when they entered the city of Valencia at the end of March 1939. After being court-martialed, Aranguren was given the death penalty and was executed on 22 April in the same year. Locally recruited units of

1334-745: The Spanish armed forces contingent in the war in Iraq , mainly as military police but also in intelligence gathering, where seven of its members were killed. In the Afghan war effort the rapid reaction branch of the Guardia Civil ; the Grupo de Acción Rápida (GAR) were deployed to the Kabul area in 2002 shortly after the invasion and served as the protective team for the High Representative of

1380-455: The Spanish landscape scarred by the destruction of civil war and social unrest, and the government was forced to take drastic action to suppress spontaneous revolts by a restive peasantry. Based on the model of light infantry used by Napoléon in his European campaigns, the Guardia Civil was transformed into a military force of high mobility that could be deployed irrespective of inhospitable conditions, able to patrol and pacify large areas of

1426-537: The Teresiana Kepi . Officially, it is known by the Civil Guard as the "black hat". On 8 February 1913, Our Lady of the Pillar was declared by royal decree as the guard's exalted patron saint . A wide range of clothing is currently worn according to the nature of the duties being performed (see schematic diagrams below). The traditional headdress of the Guardia is the tricornio hat, originally

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1472-479: The city of Málaga : The favorite and original method of the Malagueño highwayman is to creep up quietly behind his victim, muffle his head and arms in a cloak, and then relieve him of his valuables. Should he resist, he is instantly disembowelled with the dexterous thrust of a knife...[The Spanish highwayman] wears a profusion of amulets and charms...all of undoubted efficacy against the dagger of an adversary or

1518-590: The collection of forces responsible for general policing in areas defined with respect to local government areas. The phrase " Home Office Police" is commonly used but this is often inaccurate or inadequate as the words naturally exclude forces outside England and Wales , but include some special police forces over which the Home Secretary has some power. The police forces referred to as "territorial" are those whose police areas are defined by: Members of territorial police forces have jurisdiction in one of

1564-435: The country increased the risk of police violations of individual civil rights through lack of supervision and accountability. García Lorca 's poems have contributed to the Guardia Civil 's reputation as, at least at the time, a heavy-handed police force. The involvement of Guardia Civil figures in politics continued right up until the end of the twentieth century: on 23 February 1981, Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina ,

1610-409: The countryside. Its members, called ' guardias ', maintain to this day a basic patrol unit formed by two agents, usually called a " pareja " (a pair), in which one of the ' guardias ' will initiate the intervention while the second ' guardia ' serves as a backup to the first. Under the pre-1931 monarchy, relations between Gitanos and the Civil Guard were particularly tense. During

1656-519: The original text and melody. This hymn was that of the College of Young Guardsmen, adopted as the school's alma mater march since December 1922. Despite the absence of any legal provision, the hymn became official upon its use. The motto of the Civil Guard is "Honor is my badge". It comes from article 1 of the "Cartilla del Guardia Civil", written by the Duke of Ahumada in 1845. The full text says: "Honor

1702-653: The rank of Corporal. " Royal Decree 1970/1983, of June 22, on the consideration of Non-Commissioned Officers to the Troop Classes of the Civil Guard" Rank Guardia Civil to Cabo Mayor, in Military Police missions under the command of the Ministry of Defense, their rank will be equivalent to the first rank of non-commissioned official (OR-6). "Law 29/2014, of November 28, on the Civil Guard Personnel Regime" A Civil Guard participates in

1748-464: The reign of Queen Isabel II of Spain by the 2nd Duke of Ahumada and 5th Marquess of Amarillas , an 11th generation descendant of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II . Previously, law enforcement had been the responsibility of the "Holy Brotherhood" , an organization of municipal leagues. Corruption was pervasive in the Brotherhood, where officials were constantly subject to local political influence, and

1794-659: The rifle of a Civil Guard. The Guardia Civil was also given the political task of restoring and maintaining land ownership and servitude among the peasantry of Spain by the King, who desired to stop the spread of anti-monarchist movements inspired by the French Revolution . The end of the First Carlist War combined with the unequal distribution of land that resulted from prime minister Juan Álvarez Mendizábal 's first Desamortización (1836–1837) had left

1840-452: The system was largely ineffective outside the major towns and cities. Criminals could often escape justice by simply moving from one district to another. The first Guardia police academy was established in the town of Valdemoro , south of Madrid , in 1855. Graduates were given the Guardia's now famous tricorne or Cavaliers hat as part of their duty dress uniform. The Guardia

1886-440: The three distinct legal systems of the United Kingdom – either England and Wales , Scotland or Northern Ireland . A police officer of one of the three legal systems has all the powers of a constable throughout their own legal system but limited powers in the other two legal systems. Certain exceptions where full police powers cross the border with the officer are when officers are providing planned support to another force such as

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1932-638: The years in both Madrid and Valdemoro . In 1940, the first squads of Civil Guard musicians were officially approved and applications to join the official Civil Guard band were released in October 1941. In 1949, and as a consequence of the merger of the Carabineros Corps and the Civil Guard, their respective Music bands were also unified. These templates remained that way for over two decades when they were increased to adapt them to those of Army Music, forming two bands: one with 75 musicians attached to

1978-473: Was Scotland's fourth-largest police force. It was formed on 16 May 1975, with the region of Tayside, as an amalgamation of the Perth and Kinross Constabulary , Angus Constabulary and City of Dundee Police . The force was operationally subdivided into three Divisions, equating to the respective council areas - Western Division serves Perth and Kinross , Eastern Division serves Angus and Central Division serves

2024-585: Was announced for the Civil Guard in 2011, for general adoption during 2012. This comprises a green baseball cap, polo shirt and cargo pants. The kepi -like "gorra teresiana" was abolished. Road waistcoat Motorcyclist ATGC Coverralls Summer Winter Rescue Diver Military Police Winter Summer Historic (*) Constable with the rank "Guardia Civil" with 6 years of service obtain statuts of non-commissioned officer (OR-6).Cabo,Cabo primero and Cabo mayor obtain statuts of non-commissioned officer (OR-6) automatically when agents promote to

2070-414: Was first appointed on the 15th of August 2018 and would formally take office on the 27th of August, same year. This article related to government in Scotland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This United Kingdom law enforcement agency article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Territorial police force The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP/GRC)

2116-435: Was initially charged with putting an end to brigandage on the nation's highways, particularly in Andalusia , which had become notorious for numerous robberies and holdups of businessmen, peddlers, travelers, and even foreign tourists. Banditry in this region was so endemic that the Guardia found it difficult to eradicate it completely. As late as 1884, one traveler of the day reported that it still existed in and around

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