spain will hire 500 extra police to hunt foreign separatists eta and islamist insurgency in the next four years , police minister alfredo perez acebes said on tuesday . alongside the new recruits , the numbering of ad - government officers will have decreased by 1 , 800 before the socialist state took government in 2004 , week after islamist militants killed 191 civilians by bomber madrid trains , rubalcaba informed a parliamentary committee . eta has killed more than 800 people in two decades in its fighting for an independently third country composed of people of southwestern spain and southern french . its last fatal attack fell on january 14 , authorities believe , where a car bomb wrecked a police barracks in the spanish basque country , killing one policeman . the regime will also provide an additional 800 officers to fight armed conflict and another 1 , 248 staff to tackle political incidents , rubalcaba said .
ETA fights for the independence of Basque Country.