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Chartered Police of Navarre is the regional police force for the
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NavarreNavarre , officially the Chartered Community of Navarre is an autonomous community in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Country, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Aquitaine in France...
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. It operates across the region, and was founded from a
traffic policeTraffic police or Traffic cops may refer to:*Police controlling traffic, see rules of the road*Traffic Cops, a BBC real-life documentary*Highway patrol*Road Policing Unit*Traffic Guard*Sri Lankan Traffic Police*Municipal police...
unit set up by the Provincial Council of Navarre in 1929.
The force currently has 925 policemen (2007) with medium-term plans to increase it to about 1,200.
Reference
- Fabian Hinrichs: Das Recht der spanischen Vollzugspolizei, Ergon-Verlag 2004