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The Polizia Municipale (municipal police) is responsible to the local mayor and limited to performing public order duties. Traffic control is their main function in addition to controlling commercial establishments to ensure they open and close according their license.
The Italian Polizia Municipale has 60,000 employees and the force’s vehicles have many different liveries depending on local tastes. The municipal police are also known as the Vigili Urbani which is an old term for local police. In some regions of Italy these forces can also be called Polizia Comunale, Polizia Urbana or Polizia locale.
In the South Tyrol region, which has a large German-speaking population, the municipal police is also called Stadtpolizei or Gemeindepolizei. Municipal police vehicles in this region have both German and Italian names on them.
Municipal police officers are still referred to as vigili (singular: vigile) but the official name is agente di polizia locale. In many regions they wear white helmets similar to those worn by British police officers.
See also
External link
Polizia Municipale homepage in Italian ]
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