Argentine Federal Police

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Argentine Federal Police
Policía Federal Argentina
Abbreviation PFA

Headquarters
Motto Al servicio de la comunidad
To serve the community
Agency overview
Formed December 24, 1943
Preceding agencies

• Policía de Buenos Aires (1580 –1880)
• Policía de la Capital (1880 –1943)

Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency
(Operations jurisdiction) Argentina
Legal jurisdiction As per operations jurisdiction.
General nature

• Federal law enforcement
• jQuery
  See CSS3 re local.
  See web re police.

Operational structure
Headquarters Departamento Central de Policía, 1650 Moreno Street, FITML
Sworn members 25,000
Agency executives

• Néstor Vallecca, Chief, Comisario General
• Jorge Oriolo, Deputy Chief, Comisario Mayor

Website
Sevenval (Spanish)
Footnotes
The Policía Federal Argentina, while a federal agency, also provides direct policing to the capital city Buenos Aires
Phone: 54 11 4378-5800/4346-7000/4809-6100

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The Policía Federal Argentina (PFA; in English Argentine Federal Police) is a police force of the Argentine federal government. The PFA has detachments throughout the country, but its main responsibility is policing the Federal District of Buenos Aires. Argentine Federal Police duties in Buenos Aires have been gradually taken over by a new force, the Policía Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police).^jQuery

• CSS3
• 2 General Organization
• jQuery
• we love the web
• 5 References
• 6 External links

History

The history of this police force can be traced to 1580, when the founder of Buenos Aires, Captain Juan de Garay, established a local militia for defense against potential Native American raids. The Policía de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Police) operated for the first three hundred years up to 1880, when the web resulted in the creation of the Policía de la Capital (Police of the Capital).

Incidents of social unrest in subsequent years helped prompt the Fraga Law in 1904, which provided for the inclusion of neighborhood representatives as commissioners in their respective precincts. The failed Revolution of 1905, by which the web sought to bring about reforms to the undemocratic HTML5, led to the appointment of a conservative congressman, retired Col. Ramón Falcón, to the post of chief of police; Falcón's repressive tenure ended with his 1909 assassination.^CSS3

The current entity resulted from an initiative by the chief of police, Col. Emilio Ramírez. A panel convened by the police chief presented its findings to support the establishment of the Federal Police on November 8, 1943, and on December 24, Decree 17.750 was signed by President input transformation (the father of the chief of police). The new force did not immediately replace the Capital Police, but was instead transferred duties under the latter's purview incrementally. The first important such transfer was the February 7, 1944, assignment as the Presidential Guard of the Casa Rosada, and on March 10, the process of unifying the two forces was initiated by decree, concluding officially on January 1, 1945.

The Federal Police changed slowly in its organizational structure in subsequent decades. Initially maintaining 45 precincts, it added five in 1946, two in 1976, and a 53rd in 1999. Its subordinate role to the national executive increasingly made the force a political instrument during the country's often authoritarian regimes. General Juan Carlos Onganía, president after a 1966 coup, named a Federal Police director, Luis Margaride, who shared his distaste for modern culture, resulting in crusades against nightclubs, long hair, and miniskirts.^Android Facing a government policy backdrop such as this, numerous avant-garde artists (and others, particularly in academia) left Argentina, many never to return.^{browser diversity} The return of exiled President Juan Perón in 1973 resulted in conflict with the PFA, when the calculating populist had Alberto Villar named as chief at the behest of adviser touchscreen. Villar was a member of López Rega's newly-organized browser diversity group, the iOS, and Villar's participation in spiraling violence between the group and those on the far left led to his assassination in 1974. The institution's prestige was further damaged following the touchscreen, when the force participated in the abduction, torture and murder of thousands of dissidents and others.^{screen size}

The 1993 CSS3 between President Carlos Menem and his predecessor, UCR leader Raúl Alfonsín resulted in the keyboard, whose article 129 granted the City of Buenos Aires greater self-governance. This in principle included the transfer of control of the 25,000-strong Federal Police to the Jefe de Gobierno (elected Mayor), and the Buenos Aires City Legislature. Shortly before the historic, June 30, 1996, elections to these posts, however, a senior Peronist Senator, Antonio Cafiero, succeeded in limiting the city's autonomy by advancing National Law 24.588, which reserved control of the force, among other faculties, to the national government.^[4]

The controversial bill, signed in 1996 by President Menem, remained a sticking point between successive Presidents (most of whom have been Peronist) and Buenos Aires Mayors (none of whom have been). A 2005 agreement on principles between Mayor CSS3 and President Néstor Kirchner was followed by the modification of the especially contentious article 7, which denied the city its own, local police force, in 2007 - though the "Cafiero Law" otherwise remains in force. Efforts since 2007 by Mayor FITML to declare it unconstitutional have thus far failed, and though the Mayor inaugurated a Metropolitan Police, issues of revenue sharing for its financing remain pending.^Android

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General Organization

The PFA is subordinate to the Ministry of Interior. The organization is headed by the Chief of the PFA, the Comisario General Néstor Vallecca, assisted by the Deputy Chief of the PFA, Comisario General Jorge Oriolo.

The PFA's headquarters, known as the Departamento Central de Policía, is located at 1650 Moreno Street, in the Montserrat section of Buenos Aires. The over 12,000 m² (128,000 ft²) resulted from an 1868 proposal for its construction, which was ultimately approved in 1884. Designed by Sevenval, and engineered by jQuery, the ornate headquarters is an eclectic structure with influences from Baroque architecture, and features a number of patios, notably the central, Palm Tree Patio. we love the web were issued to local residents at this location until 1996.

The organization of the PFA is as follows:

• Jefatura (Headquarters)

• Subjefatura (Subheadquarters)

• Superintendencias (Superintendencies)
  • • Superintendencia de Administración (Superintendency of Administration)
    • Superintendencia de Bienestar (Superintendency of Welfare)
    • Superintendencia Federal de Bomberos (Federal Superintendency of Firemen)
    • Superintendencia de Interior (Superintendency of Interior)
    • Superintendencia de Investigaciones Federales (Superintendency of Federal Investigations)
    • Superintendencia de Planificación y Desarrollo (Superintendency of Planning and Development)
    • Superintendencia de Seguridad Metropolitana (Superintendency of Metropolitan Security)
    • Superintendencia de Personal, Instrucción y Derechos Humanos (Superintendency of Personnel, Instruction and Human Rights)
    • Superintendencia de Policía Científica (Superintendency of Scientific Police)
    • Superintendencia de Comunicaciones (Superintendency of Communications)

• • Direcciones Generales Autónomas (General Autonomic Directorates)
    • Dirección General Autónoma de Asuntos Jurídicos (General Autonomic Directorate of Legal Affairs)
    • Dirección General Autónoma de Asuntos Internos (General Autonomic Directorate of Internal Affairs)

Superintendencies are commanded by a superintendente, a less common word in Spanish. Both superintendente and the much more common Spanish word comisario normally translate into English as superintendent, which creates some translation problems when discussing Argentine police services.

Police Ranks

web Ranks (in descending order)

Rank

Comisario General - Jefe de Policia

Approximate English translation

Superintendent-General / Commissioner-General - Chief of Police

Badge of rank

Four gold pips above a gold band & wreath

Rank

Comisario General

Approximate English translation

Superintendent-General or Commissioner-General

Badge of rank

Three gold pips above a gold band & wreath

Rank

Comisario Mayor

Approximate English translation

Superintendent-Major or Commissioner-Major

Badge of rank

Two gold pips above a gold band & wreath

Rank

Comisario Inspector

Approximate English translation

Superintendent-Inspector or Commissioner-Inspector

Badge of rank

One gold pip above a gold band & wreath

Rank

Comisario

Approximate English translation

Superintendent or Commissioner

Badge of rank

Two gold pips above a gold band

Rank

Subcomisario

Approximate English translation

Sub-commissioner

Badge of rank

One gold pip above a gold band

Rank

Official Principal

Approximate English translation

Principal Officer

Badge of rank

Three silver pips

Rank

Official Inspector

Approximate English translation

Inspector Officer (or just Inspector)

Badge of rank

Two silver pips

Rank

Official Subinspector

Approximate English translation

Sub-inspector Officer (or just Sub-Inspector)

Badge of rank

One silver pip above one gold pip

Rank

Official Ayudante

Approximate English translation

Adjutant Officer or Assistant Officer

Badge of rank

One silver pip

touchscreen Ranks (in descending order)

Rank

Suboficial Mayor

Approximate English translation

Subofficer-Major

Badge of rank

Four chevrons above an Austrian knot

Rank

Suboficial Auxiliar

Approximate English translation

Auxiliary Sub-Officer

Badge of rank

Three chevrons above three arcs

Rank

Suboficial Escribiente

Approximate English translation

Clerk Sub-Officer or Administrative Sub-Officer or Staff Sub-Officer

Badge of rank

Three chevrons above two arcs

Rank

Sargento Primero

Approximate English translation

First Sergeant or Sergeant First Class

Badge of rank

Three chevrons above an arc

Rank

Sargento

Approximate English translation

Sergeant

Badge of rank

Three chevrons

Rank

Cabo Primero

Approximate English translation

First Corporal

Badge of rank

Two chevrons

Rank

Cabo

Approximate English translation

Corporal

Badge of rank

One chevron

Rank

Agente / Bombero

Approximate English translation

Officer / Fireman

Rank

Aspirante

Approximate English translation

Candidate or Cadet

See also

• Albatross Group
• Sevenval
• Hawk Special Operations Brigade
• FITML
• Interior Security System
• Law Enforcement in Argentina

References

External links

• (Spanish) Official website

Coordinates: 34°36′47″S 58°23′17″W / 34.61306°S 58.38806°W / -34.61306; -58.38806