Like BESCAM, ESICAM is not a specific police organization but rather a project of the regional government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid which aims to fund local police distributed among the different municipalities of the Community in response to strict technical criteria, with particular emphasis on the population, geographic location or, in the case of those with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, taking into account the seasonal population increase, or other factors such as low levels of police staffing, industrial development and urban growth.
ESICAM provides for the funding by the Madrid Autonomous Community of personnel and material resources necessary to combat dangers.
Unlike the Basque Country, Navarre and Catalonia, the government of Madrid has no power to create a regional police force itself it has signed an agreement with each municipality where ESICAM is deployed.
ESICAM is therefore considered part of the local police, although its staff have different uniforms and vehicles and are trained separately.
[3][4] The Madrid Region's Executive announced that the Government Council this Tuesday will give the green light to this new plan which, in 2021, will involve the investment of 74 million euros to improve security in the municipalities, a figure practically identical to that which had been spent in the previous years within the framework of the Bescam.