page_title: Guardia di Finanza
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Guardia di Finanza / Organization
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Foto del Comandante Generale della Guardia di Finanza
context_page_description: The Guardia di Finanza is an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. It is a militarized police force, forming a part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, not the Ministry of Defence. Guardia di Finanza is essentially responsible for dealing with financial crime and smuggling; it has also evolved into Italy's primary agency for suppressing the illegal drug trade. It maintains over 600 boats and ships and more than 100 aircraft to serve in its mission of patrolling Italy's territorial waters.
  Interpol summarizes the Guardia di Finanza as "a force with military status and nationwide remit for financial crime investigations".
context_section_description: Guardia di Finanza is a militarized police force, corpo di polizia ad ordinamento militare, just as the Carabinieri, but forming a part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, not the Ministry of Defence. Under the minister of finance and economy, the corps is commanded by a general commander and a second-in-command.
caption: Generale di Corpo d'Armata Giorgio Toschi, general commander of the Guardia di Finanza since 2016 to 2019.
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