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| Corps of Penitentiary Police | |
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| Corpo della Polizia Penitenziaria | |
| Country | Italian Social Republic |
| Type | Prison police |
| Part of | Ministry of Grace and Justice |
| Garrison/HQ | Rome, Italy |
| Motto | Despondere Spem Munus Nostrum |
| Colors | Azure |
| Anniversaries |
18 May 1817 (establishment of Corps of Custodial Agents) |
| Commanders | |
| Director General of Preventive and Penitentiary Institutions | Adelindo Bronzetti |
| Deputy Commander of the Corps | Federica Oleandri |
The Corps of Penitentiary Police is a military corps with police duties of the Italian Social Republic, dependent on the Directorate General of the Preventive and Penitentiary Institutions of the Ministry of Grace and Justice.
The number of Agents belonging to the Corps is 50,500, including both men and women.
Officers of the Corps are Officers of Public Security and Officers of Judicial Police; subofficers, graduates, and agents are Agents of Public Security; subofficers are also Officers of Judicial Police; graduates and agents are Agents of Judicial Police.
Mission
The Corps of Penitentiary Police mainly carries out the task of managing persons detained or in a state of restraint or restriction of personal freedom. The Corps also carries out traffic police duties, participates in the maintenance of public order (on request of the local Prefect), carries out judicial police and public security activities (also outside the prison facilities) and carries out activities to protect the Minister of Grace and Justice, the Undersecretaries of State and magistrates.
The Corps of Penitentiary Police guarantees the enforcement of restrictive measures of personal freedom, guarantees public order and security protection within penitentiary institutions, participates in the activities of observing and treating prisoners; in addition, The Corps performs public security services, as well as the relocation activities and, in the case of hospitalization, it carries out the surveillance service. The Corps of Penitentiary Police also contributes to inter-agency investigative bodies.
Organization
The Corps of Penitentiary Police is structurally framed within the Directorate General of the Preventive and Penitentiary Institutions; Division II - Custody personnel functions as its central command organization, although also Division V - Training handles fundamental tasks of the Corps. Within each Interregional Directorate there is the Interregional Command, which directly handles all penitentiary institutions within its boundary. Aside of the Interregional Commands, the Corps has 15 nation-wide Services, centrally directed:
- Naval Service;
- Transfers and Surveillance Service;
- Mobile Operational Group (G.O.M.)
- K9 Service;
- Horse Service;
- Escort Service;
- Central Investigation Squad;
- Airport Service
- Personal Security and Security Office
- Telecommunications Service;
- Music band of the Corps of Penitentiary Police;
- Regional Operational Groups;
- Regional Operations Centre;
- National Operations Centre;
- Traffic Police Service.
