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FIGURE 26. Civil Guard police dogs and instructors (U/OU) (picture)
from selected enlisted personnel who graduate from a 9-month officers' training course at the Special Academy of the Armed Police, but most of the officers are on detached service from the army. Enlisted men are recruited from volunteers who have completed their compulsory military service. All personnel -- army officers on special detail and new enlisted men -- must attend a 4-month orientation course at the Special Academy of the Armed Police in Madrid. Training includes police techniques, with special emphasis on riot control.
The strength of the Armed Police is 32,000. The organization is mainly administrative, although units are roughly of battalion and company size. The force is administered through nine zones called circumscriptions, plus a separate command for the Canary Islands administered from headquarters in Madrid. The Balearic Islands are administered by the Third Circumscription, which is responsible for the mainland area near the islands. The circumscription boundaries generally follow the boundaries of the army's nine military regions. Operational units have no standard size; strength is determined by local requirements. Units of police mounted on horses are used in parades and for crowd control. There are a number of units that are highly mobile and capable of providing reinforcements rapidly to any metropolitan area where disorders may occur. The principal weapons are pistols, clubs, carbines, submachine guns, light machine guns, rifles, and grenade launchers for use with chemical riot control agents; some mortars are available for use as required. Transportation includes horses, motorcycles, a variety of trucks, including water trucks used in riot control and sedans.
FIGURE 27. Water trucks used by the Armed Police in riot control (U/OU) (picture)
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