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Historically in the Italian Republic there are 8 categories of police force those generally are called order forces. 6 of them are state-owned and 2 are local. The Italian structure provides that is one of the function of Minister of Defense through the Public Security Department to take the decision those regards the functions of the various police force and in particular the function of the police graduation. Surely the number of the employed in various type of responsibility of the different ranks are larger superior of the police forces of any other country in Europe, very far from the second that is Germany and the third that is Great Britain.
We can divide the Italian polices into different categories, national and local, those has different responsibility and different level into the public administration, and they have different uniforms those permits to distinguish the various kind by a first look. The five police forces, the sixth is the National Army, are under the direct control of the Minister of Defenze and are: State Police, the State Forestry Corps, the Carabinieri, the Guardia di Finanza and the Prison Police Service.
Surely the State Police is the biggest and the most known thanks to the very comprehensive location in the Italian country and the one that has the most know uniforms, marked by particular characteristics and particular object and colors. The State Police's uniform can be dressed in two different way: the winter's one and the summer' one those have common characteristic but changed the materials and the tissues. The uniforms are composed by different components: a white shirt with starched collar, a blue jacket with gold striped rounded buttons and epaulets edged with crimson, blue-gray trousers with threads of colors always crimson, black leather shoes and gloves, blue socks and tie, frieze cloth cap drive, blue visor, white or black belt holster with rapid extraction, "correggiolo", security handcuffs port, billy portcargo and brought. With cold weather the uniform can be integrated with a sweater with a V-neck and jacket in Goretex and fleece internal lining.
The women's uniform is marked by the black leather heel shoes and the blue-gray skirt always with crimson thread. The variant of the skirt can be worn only if explicitly ordered otherwise by the supervisor even female staff is required to wear the pants.
The Scientific department of the Police has de same uniform except that instead of the jacket they wear a white lab coat with the insignia on his lapel. Thestaff employed inofficesinsteadof wearingblue jacketoftheorder ofgray-greenshirtswiththeinsignia.Inthe caseof publicservicestaff arerequiredtowear,as a variantofarmyuniforms,thebluehelmet, an elementthatisperhapsmorerepresentativeofthatpolice forcedue to the numerous occasions whenthereisactiontokeep'orderinprocessionsor demonstrations.
Then there isa uniformthatiswornby thehistoricalhonorplatoonmakingthechanging of the guardof honoratthe Quirinale Palace andtheGangMusicinsomespecial occasions such asthemilitary paradeof 2 JuneandtheFeastofthe State Police.
