NCJ Number
105225
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1987) Pages: 16-22
Date Published
1987
Length
7 pages
Annotation
The March 1986 Organic Law of the Security Corps and Forces marks the completion, so far as policing is concerned, of the legislative transition from Francoism to parliamentary democracy in Spain.
Abstract
This article gives an analysis of the overall structure of the police system created by current law and policy, including the unification of the plainclothes and uniformed branches of the national police, and the continuing separate existence of the paramilitary Civil Guard. Problems of demarcation and coordination between them, and between them and the new 'autonomous' regional police forces, created as a political response to Basque and Catalan nationalism, are discussed as are the functions of both regional and traditional municipal forces. A common ethical code for all police forces, trade union rights, disciplinary codes, and the development of a separate Judicial Police are also covered. (Publisher abstract)