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The Polizia Municipale are the municipal police of Italy responsible to the mayors of the various Municipalities of Italy and are usually 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 forces have 60,000 employees, Rome having the largest at several thousand. PM vehicles have many different liveries depending on local tastes.
Some municipal police are known as the Vigili Urbani (Urban Watch), which is an old term for local police, while in other regions of Italy these forces can also be called Polizia Comunale, Polizia Urbana, or Polizia locale.
In the province of Bolzano-Bozen, which has a large German-speaking population, the municipal police is also called Stadtpolizei or Gemeindepolizei. Municipal police vehicles in this region have both Italian and German 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 the black helmets worn by British police officers.
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| Law enforcement in Italy | ||
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| Arma dei Carabinieri | ||
| Guardia di Finanza | ||
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