By achieve on 09 February 2010

National Police Force (Spain) The National Police of Spain (CNP) is an armed civilian in nature institute under the Ministry of Interior. The background to this corps dating from the need to equip the Spanish cities of modern security structure. Hence Ferdinand dictate a Royal Decree in 1824 which created the General Police of the Kingdom. Despite the long history of continuous public service of the Spanish police, the National Police, its structure and current name stems directly on the Constitution of 1978, where he devotes two core missions: "to protect the free exercise rights and freedoms and guarantee public security. " From this constitutional mandate on 13 March 1986, promulgated the Organic Law of Security Forces (Law 2 / 1986) which unified the National Police Corps and Senior Corps in the current Police National Body Police.Two corpses were very different in nature, since the upper body is engaged in research, compared with another body, which was essentially a police force of collision. Thus in the National Police joined by officials from the Higher Police Corps and National Police, were extinguished. In this body, unlike the Guardia Civil unions are permitted, but professional character. Among them we find, in order of representation on the Police Council, the following: Unified Police Union (SUP),
Spanish Confederation of Police (CEP), Federal Police Union (PFU), Police Trade Union (SPP) and Union of Police Commissioners (SCP). In 2008 the three members of the UFP in the Police Council, were torn off of it and created the Spanish National Police Union (SNPE).During 2008 the five trade unions, in unity of action, have presented "collective" against the police administration and government, due to repeated breaches of economic catch and media off the Autonomous and Local Police, which in some cases they amount about 500-800 a month less pay. The National Police consists of approximately 70,000 people, intending to increase in number due to the large number of touring promotions convened in recent years. The powers of the National Police varies the autonomous communities, because the assumption of some of this and the Civil Guard by fleet Waiters of Catalonia, the Ertzaintza in the Basque Country and Navarra Foral Police in Navarre.In Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Galicia and Valencia are the National Police units and functionally acting directly under the orders of the Autonomous Communities to which they are assigned.