Mobile Unit (Italy)

Currently there are 15 mobile departments and are located in the cities of Rome, Turin, Florence, Reggio Calabria, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Catania, Bologna, Padua, Cagliari, Senigallia, Bari and Taranto.

At the end of the Second World War, the main requirement of the police apparatus was to restore public order in the chaotic period.

The Corps of Guards of Public Security had on the territory the so-called "Mobile Units", created for tactical purposes and therefore equipped with heavy weaponry that had to fulfill defensive tasks of the territory in case of external invasion: mortars, submachine guns, T17 armoured vehicles, "Lince" armored cars were part of the equipment of these operational units.

[5] In the following years, other Celere units were established in Bologna, Turin, Genoa, Florence, Naples, Reggio Calabria, Bari (with detachment in Taranto), Palermo, Catania and Cagliari.[6]p.

25 In the 1950s, the repressive aspect put in place by the Celere units began to tend to avoid as much as possible the physical battle between the guards and the demonstrators.

28 In the 1960s, the Celere units modernized their equipment, receiving Italian vans, FIAT 6640 armoured cars, more suited to the troops transport and to the breakthrough of road barricades.[6]p.

81 In terms of vehicles, in the "Celere" departments the new OM and FIAT "shielded" vans were introduced, with bulletproof glass, ventilation systems that prevent the inhalation of tear gas and equipped with movable metal gratings against the throwing of stones.

At each mobile department a personnel quota must consist of CBRN defense specialists as well as, in the past, also by a sufficient number of trumpeter agents, who have now disappeared since each charge is currently preceded and accompanied by the sound of the sirens.