BESCAM

The BESCAM, an initialism for Brigadas Especiales de Seguridad de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (Special Security Brigades for the Autonomous Community of Madrid), is a police body created by the government of the Community of Madrid in Spain. It is not a specific police organization but a project of the regional government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid 2500 which aims to fund local police distributed among the different municipalities of the Community in response to strict technical criteria, with particular emphasis on the population, geographic location or, in the case of those with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, taking into account the seasonal population increase suffering, or other factors such as low ratio police, industrial development and urban growth. In early 2008, 2,500 agents, distributed in 102 locations in Madrid that have a local police force, were members of these brigades.

Unlike the Ertzaintza or the Mossos d'Esquadra, it is not a full-blown police corps but a series of manpower and equipment contingents assigned to the already existing local police forces. Nonetheless, BESCAM contingents have different uniforms, and their vehicles have different livery than their home forces.

The BESCAM were created in 2004 by initiative of the regional government, led by Esperanza Aguirre, and the president of the Federation of Municipalities of Madrid (FMM), Luis Partida, by signing a framework agreement between the Community and the various municipalities that unfold in these brigades under their respective mayors. The agreement provides for the funding by the Madrid Autonomous Community of personnel and material resources necessary to combat insecurity.

The objectives of this plan are the guarantee of public safety as the first responsibility of government and guarantee the free exercise of fundamental rights of all citizens in society.

Since the government of Madrid has no power to create a regional police force itself, as happens in the Basque Country, Navarre and Catalonia, the Community of Madrid signed an agreement with each municipality in which is started a brigade. BESCAM is therefore considered part of the local police, although the staff of these bodies have uniforms and vehicles and do their own training separately.

The local police whose squares belong to the phases BESCAM trained at the Police Academy of the Community of Madrid being the same as that received by the local cops who are not part of this project and were not intended exclusively for public safety among its functions fall all that the law gives the police, his uniform and equipment endowment is the same as it has been used in previous templates, salary, working conditions and hierarchical controls are exactly the same as those local police non-BESCAM squares, resulting all in a consistent service to citizens.

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