Italy, for historical reasons, has two major and mostly overlapping police forces, plus another two specialized one: * The "Carabinieri", a branch of the milit

Italy, for historical reasons, has two major and mostly overlapping police forces, plus another two specialized one: * The "Carabinieri", a branch of the military which historically which mostly works against normal crime * The "Polizia di Stato", which became a fully civil force in 1981 and often compete with the Carabinieri * The smaller "Guardia di Finanza", which is another militarized force but at the direct dependence of the Ministry of Economy, and deal with financial crime and smuggling Until last year, we also had the State Forestry Corp which was its own corp and was, against many many resistances, absorbed into the Carabinieri.