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The Policía Municipal de Madrid (English: Madrid Municipal Police) is the municipal police force of the city of Madrid.History
The first written reference to an armed force under the protection of the city council named Alguacil, dates back to 1202.
The first city police force formed by the mayor of Madrid was founded in 1561, the same year as the establishment of the royal court in Madrid by Philip II. In 1743 the Alguacil enacted regulations describing the group's functions and duties.
In the past, the local police were primarily composed of military persons who were wounded during the war. For instance, in 1759 Charles III established the Milicia Urbana (English: urban militia), whose membership was made up of war veterans who could no longer serve in the army. In 1850, the Regulations of the Municipal Guard of Madrid were established. This new police force replaced the Alguacil in performing security services and fell under the jurisdiction of the city council. The character and role of the agency laid the foundation for the Madrid police as they exist today.By this time the new body created begins to take shape and create new units like the Mounted Section in 1893 and Coach Service in 1914 that regulated traffic Cab drivers and the first cars circulating in the municipality. Prior also creates the Municipal Guard Academy in 1906 that amount to knowledge base and experience for would Guards.In 1924 creates the Organic Regulations of Municipal Police which set out the duties and obligations of the members of this body. Two years before the Spanish Civil War that ravaged the country the municipal police force continues to grow and make the body section of Drivers in 1934.A year after the civil war in 1940 on the principle of postwar body, growing and expanding its workforce by creating the Brigade Movement. It was not until eight years later when the body will undergo another reorganization of staff and services.In 1952 he created the Cavalry Squadron called the Escuadrón de caballería, as has the monitoring mission of parks and gardens and protocol services, now they can be seen patrolling parks like the Retreat and the Heart of Madrid.In 1961 he created the Municipal Police Academy in Madrid which was governed by its own rules and in which future police officers were trained in the legislature and prepared to be an active part of the body.In Spain begin to change things, and the woman enters the body in 1972, by a selective process different from that of men. Created in 1972, the Fifth Joint Traffic Association which was commanded by commanders also female could see regulating traffic among other places in the Plaza de Cibeles. It was not until 1980 when the Association was incorporated in the template's body and become part of the bulk of their peers.In 1978 Spain comes to democracy and its greatest exponent approval of the Constitution. The police become regulated in Article 104 attributing to the protection of the free exercise of the rights and freedoms of citizens and ensuring public safety. It is also called on the regularization of the Security Forces in a future Act, which would come in 1986 with the Law of Security Forces.
In the new model, police Police are attributed to basic principles of action that should be governed by. It is at this stage that the local police forces take more strength in the panorama of the state police, setting its powers and subjecting it to other police forces. It begins as a major process of modernization that expands and rejuvenates the template, and also gives it better material means.
In 1985 he created a new Organic Regulation of Municipal Police, but with the approval of the Law of Coordination of local police of the Community of Madrid, this has to be modified, approving the regulations of the Madrid Municipal Police in 1995.
Currently the future police officers and not dealt with in the Corps Academy, but with the rest of the local police in the Community of Madrid, enrolled his learning curve in the Local Police Academy of the Community of Madrid which is in the Road Tres Cantos.
Then you create the Center for Integrated Security and Emergency Training (CIFSE) in which members of the Madrid Municipal Police along with the rest of the Municipality Emergency Corps, may continue their education during his career in various fields in which instruct courses.
The current sidearm is the Heckler & Koch USP chambered in 9×19mm.
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