page_title: BESCAM
section_title: Characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: BESCAM / Characteristics
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Locale politie - Villa del Prado
context_page_description: The BESCAM, an acronym for Brigadas Especiales de Seguridad de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, is a police body created by the government of the Community of Madrid in Spain. It is not a specific police organization but rather a project of the regional government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid 2500 which aims to fund local police distributed among the different municipalities of the Community in response to strict technical criteria, with particular emphasis on the population, geographic location or, in the case of those with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, taking into account the seasonal population increase, or other factors such as low levels of police staffing, industrial development and urban growth. In early 2008, 2,500 agents, distributed in 102 locations in the Greater Madrid area that have a local police force, were members of these units.
  Unlike the Ertzaintza or the Mossos d'Esquadra, BESCAM is not a full-blown police corps but a series of manpower and equipment contingents assigned to the already existing local police forces. Nonetheless, BESCAM contingents have different uniforms, and their vehicles have different livery to their local forces.
context_section_description: The local police whose posts belong to the BESCAM units are trained at the Police Academy of the Community of Madrid in the same manner as non-BESCAM officers of the municipal police who were not destined exclusively to public safety. BESCAM officers' functions encompass  all those functions assigned to the regular police and their uniform and equipment is the same as those used in previous promotions; the salary, working conditions and chain of command are exactly the same as those local police non-BESCAM posts, which results in a consistent service to the public.
  This does not affect the current situation, in which each municipality has a different convention, with specific working conditions, salary, equipment, staffing, internal rules, or guidelines when exercising their functions, which may be adapted to the unique characteristics of each municipality, provided they meet basic standards specified in Law 4/92 and the General Security Forces Law 2/1986 of 13 March.
caption: BESCAM Citroen C4 of the Colmenar de Oreja local police.
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