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The state of alarm approved by the Government will represent a map of state security unprecedented in the history of democracy. Under a single command will be not only the State Security Forces, but also the autonomous and local ones. Thus, it will far exceed that single command that was launched after the approval of article 155 within the framework of the process and which meant that the Mossos d'Esquadra were under the command of the Ministry of the Interior.

On this occasion, it will be civil guards, national police, mossos and ertzainas who are unified, in addition to the different local police. According to official estimates, this represents a civilian army of more than 200,000 agents.

Under a single command would be the 78,000 civil guards of the staff, the 68,000 of the National Police, 16,500 mossos and the 8,000 ertzainas . In addition, local agents should be added. Only in Catalonia, in the different localities, almost 11,000 municipal police officers are accumulated, 3,000 of them in Barcelona, ​​in their Urban Guard. We must also add the almost 6,000 agents of the Municipal Police of Madrid.

Its work will be, in addition to participating in the shielding of borders, citizen security, participating in all those guidelines agreed by the Ministry of the Interior.

Fundamental will be their participation in devices aimed primarily at preventing concentrations of people and shielding services, such as supermarkets and pharmacies, so that there are no incidents among citizens.

Thus, the sole command will be in the hands of the Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska who will be the first to have to lead this army . Military personnel could participate in these tasks assigned to the Ministry of the Interior, depending on the demand of the Interior and in coordination with the Ministry of Defense.

Initially, there are military personnel to reinforce health work. As Defense sources recall, this establishment is made up of another 120,000 men.

The Executive has not yet specified whether it intends to carry out the armoring of some areas of the national territory, as claimed on Saturday by the President of Catalonia, Quim Torra, for this community. On the table was also the possibility of limiting the movements in the Community of Madrid or in its capital.

For this, the Police and the Civil Guard would recover old operations in which the capital was armored just after the terrorist organization carried out attacks. It was the so-called Cage operation , which in a coordinated and immediate way blocked the main exits from the capital with selective controls. In this case, they would not be selective, but fixed.

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