1st Carabinieri Mobile Brigade
| 1st Carabinieri Mobile Brigade | |
|---|---|
| 1° Brigata Mobile Carabinieri | |
| Active | 15 September 2001-present |
| Country |
 Italy
|
| Branch |
 Carabinieri
|
| Type | Gendarmerie |
| Role | Riot control |
| Size | Brigade |
| Part of | Carabinieri Mobile Units Division |
| Garrison/HQ | Rome |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
Gen. B. Carlo Cerrina |
The 1st Carabinieri Mobile Brigade (Italian: 1° Brigata Mobile Carabinieri) is a Carabinieri formation tasked with riot control, civil defence and security duties.
While the 1st Carabinieri Mobile Brigade was established in its present form on 1 February 2001, together with Carabinieri Mobile Units Division, it can track its origins in the first formation grouping all Carabinieri units tasked with mobile, riot control and combat duties: the 11th Carabinieri Mechanized Brigade, established in 1963.
In 1963, with the 1960s Army and Carabinieri reorganization, the XI Carabinieri Mechanized Brigade was established directly under the General Command, in order to cope with the internal territorial defence needs. The establishment of the new Brigade was in order to adjust the organization of the Battalions and of cavalry units both for strictly military tasks, and those related to the protection of public order. The aim was to ensure Carabinieri Battalions the availability of all elements necessary to be in a position to act in isolation and overcome considerable resistance without having to rely on the competition of other Army Corps or other Armed Forces, to ensure Battalions speed of movement and concentration in large sectors of foreseeable use and a constant high training level.
In the reorganization, former Mobile Battalions were renamed simply Battalions and were marked with a sequential number, while remaining administratively dependent on the relevant territorial Legion; the Battalions Groups were renamed Carabinieri Regiments, and were given the conceptual role of a resolution unit in both riot and tactical tasks. The newly formed Mechanized Brigade exercised its operational and training authority on:
The command structure of the XI Carabinieri Mechanized Brigade consisted of:
Each Carabinieri Battalion was led by a Lieutenant Colonel or a Major and consisted of: 1 Command Company (1 Command Platoon, 1 Services Platoon, 1 Scouts Platoon), 2 Rifle Companies (command platoon, 3 rifle platoons, 1 company weapons platoon each), 1 Mortars Company and 1 Tanks Company (Command Platoon, 3 Tanks Platoons). It was therefore a robust tactical complex. The Carabinieri Battalions had to be used only when the police and the local organization of the Carabinieri they had found insufficient, in order not to deprive the General Command of a valuable combat tool. Within the VII Battalion, based in Laives, the Counter-terrorism Special Company was established in 1960s to counter South Tyrolean terrorism.p. 187 Both VII and XIII Battalions were to be always maintained at their full wartime force.
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