Municipal police (Spain)

The local police services of individual towns and cities supplement the work of the National Police Corps, dealing with such matters as traffic, parking, monitoring public demonstrations, guarding municipal buildings, and enforcing local ordinances.

They also collaborate with the National Police Corps by providing personnel to assist in crowd control.

Numbering about 37,000 individuals in 1986, municipal police officers are generally trained only with pistols and in a few smaller municipalities the local police do not routinely carry weapons whilst on normal duty.

[3] In Spain there are the following Local Police bodies, whose names depending on the institutional tradition of each place: And other municipalities where it has been created.

According to the provisions of Royal Legislative Decree 781/1986, of April 18, which approves the Consolidated Text of the current legal provisions regarding Local Regime, fourth transitional provision, "The Local Police will only exist in municipalities with population greater than 5,000 inhabitants, unless the Ministry of Territorial Administration authorizes its creation in those with a lower census."