page_title: Government of Rosario
section_title: The Municipal Urban Guard
hierarchical_section_title: Government of Rosario / The Municipal Urban Guard
caption_attribution_description: A mobile unit of the Guardia Urbana Municipal (Municipal Urban Guard) of Rosario, Argentina. This picture was taken by Pablo D. Flores on 7 March 2006.
context_page_description: Rosario has about 910,000 inhabitants 2001 census [INDEC] and is located on the western shore of the Paraná River.
  Rosario is ruled by two branches of government: the Executive, represented by a Mayor, and the Legislative, consisting of a Deliberative Council. The status of the city and its form of government are dictated by Santa Fe's Provincial Organic Law of Municipalities, according to which Rosario is a first-category municipality.
  The Mayor is elected by popular direct vote for a four-year term. He manages several Secretariats in charge of different fields: Government; Finance and Economy; Health; Public Works; Public Services and Environment; Planning; Social Promotion; Culture and Education; Production, Employment Promotion and Foreign Trade; General Secretariat; General Direction of Public Housing Service; General Direction of Social Communication; and the Human Rights Secretariat, established in 2005 and the first of its kind at the municipal level in Argentina. The seat of the Executive branch is the Palacio de los Leones, located beside the Cathedral, at the historical core of the city.
context_section_description: Rosario pioneered the creation of a special force, the Municipal Urban Guard (Guardia Urbana Municipal, GUM) to patrol the city.
   The GUM agents are not police officers (the police force is under control of the provincial government), so they do not carry weapons and they cannot detain or arrest people, but they can report and record traffic violations, shut down commercial establishments that violate the law, perform first aid procedures, set up roadside blood alcohol content controls, etc. The GUM patrols public areas such as squares, monuments, and the pedestrian streets in the center; its operations overlap and coordinate those of other municipal and provincial agencies, and are intended to have an extra dissuasive effect. The GUM was started on 29 June 2004 with 250 agents, and soon taken up by other cities: in Villa Constitución a project was presented by a private citizen in September; nearby Roldán adopted it in October, Buenos Aires in March 2005 (see Guardia Urbana de Buenos Aires), and Rafaela is currently discussing it. The Police Cadet School of Rosario provided technical courses for aspiring agents residing in many towns and cities of Santa Fe.
caption: A mobile unit of the GUM
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