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| The '''''polizia municipale''''' are the ] of ] responsible to the mayors of the various ]. Traffic control is their main function in addition to enforcing national, regional, and local laws regarding commerce, legal residence, pets, and other administrative duties. They also have all other police duties,{{huh|date=December 2018}}including public safety only in an auxiliary function. Thus, its member aren't automatically authorized to carry weapons while in their line of duty (like in Polizia di Stato, Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza, and so on). Each municipality decides whether to arm its municipal police corp. | |||
| The Italian ''polizia municipale'' (PM) forces have 60,000 employees, Rome having the largest at several thousand. PM uniforms and vehicles have many different liveries depending on regional laws and local tastes and traditions. | |||
| Some municipal police, including those of Rome, are known as the ''vigili urbani'' (urban watch), and thus derive their name from the '']'' of ]. In other regions of Italy, these forces are also called ''polizia comunale,'' ''polizia urbana,'' and ''polizia locale''. | |||
| In the autonomous province of ], where German is an official language, the municipal police is also called ''Stadtpolizei'' or ''Gemeindepolizei''. Municipal police vehicles in this region have both Italian and German names on them. | |||
| In the autonomous region of ], where French is an official language, the municipal police is also called ''police municipale''. Municipal police vehicles in this region have both Italian and French names on them. There also are three trilingual municipalities where official languages are Italian, French and German and so their municipal police is also called "Gemeindepolizei". | |||
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| In ], '''municipal police''' (]: ''polizia municipale'') are responsible to the mayors of the various ]. | |||
| In the provinces of Trieste, Gorizia and Udine of the autonomous region of ], where Slovene is an official language, the municipal police is also called "Občinska policija". Municipal police vehicles in this provinces have both Italian and Slovene names on them. | |||
| Municipal police officers are also referred to as ''vigili'' (singular: ''vigile'', meaning watchful, alert) but the official name is ''agente di polizia locale'' (APL), meaning 'local police officer'. In some regions, especially while regulating traffic, they wear white ]s similar to the black helmets used by some English police forces. These helmets are worn by female as well as male officers. | |||
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In Italy, municipal police (Italian: polizia municipale) are responsible to the mayors of the various municipalities of Italy.
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