nativename Ertzaintza commonname abbreviation logo Escudo de la Ertzaintza.svg logocaption patch flag ... www.ertzaintza.net footnotes File Edificio Ertzaintza.jpg right thumb 275px Ertzaintza Headquarters in Vitoria Gasteiz The Ertzaintza IPA eu erts aints a lang , lang en Public Guard or People s Guard ... communities of Spain . An Ertzaintza member is an ertzaina IPA eu erts a a IPA . History Origins The origins of the current Ertzaintza, as a police force of the part of the Basque Country under Spanish ..., the Ertzaintza a more grammatical form . Previously, a Royal Decree re established the Forales and the Miqueletes ... force Polic a Foral remains independent of the Ertzaintza. Officers Image Unifome Gala Ertzaintza.jpg ... the law required that Ertzaintza commissioned officers had to be previous members of the Spanish army or the State police forces, this was often ignored. Image Ertzaintza Volkswagen Bilbao.jpg thumb 240px An Ertzaintza Volkswagen Passat Image 2007 07 31 Ertzaintzak 2 BMW.jpg thumb 240px Ertzaintza ... The Basque Country has one of the highest ratios of police agents to population. Ertzaintza ... Alava . The Ertzaintza is currently a fullly fledged police force, except for border control ... violent Basque nationalist organisations is also part of their remit. Currently, the Ertzaintza ... Entertainments Division Problems with ETA and controversies Ertzaintza is not accepted by Communists ... power . As Ertzaintza took a more relevant role in the fight against ETA, it has become a target ... are forced to reside elsewhere and commute to work. Fourteen ertzainas ref name Ertzaintza http www.ertzaintza.net public wps portal ertzaintza kcxml 04 Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y QjzKL94s3d EASZnF ... terroristas. Todos los cuerpos tienen asesinados entre los suyos la Ertzaintza, la Guardia Civil y la ... has had reservations about Ertzaintza. Spanish parties have often accused the Basque Home Office always ... needed date February 2009 , Ertzaintza is not allowed by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior Spain ... more details
The beltzak blacks in basque language are the police officers that compose the riot police riot unit of the Ertzaintza , who is the police force of the Basque Country autonomous community Basque Country , one of the autonomous communities of Spain . An Ertzaintza member is an ertzaina. They are called beltzak because of their black fire proof uniforms. Basque stub law enforcement stub Category Basque Country autonomous community Category Law enforcement in Spain ... more details
Infobox Government agency agency name Department of the Interior nativename Herrizaingo Saila br Departamento de Interior nativename a nativename r logo logo width logo caption seal Basque home office logo.png seal width 170px seal caption formed 1936 jurisdiction Basque Government headquarters Vitoria Gasteiz region code ES employees budget chief1 name Rodolfo Ares chief1 position Minister chief2 name Ra l Oscar Fern ndez chief2 position Vice Minister for the Interior chief3 name Rafael Iturriaga Nieva chief3 position Vice Minister for Security parent agency child1 agency Ertzaintza child2 agency SOS Deiak child3 agency Basque Police Academy website http www.interior.ejgv.euskadi.net Official website footnotes The Home office of the Basque Government or the Department of the Interior , is the Ministry government department department responsible for the security of the Basque Country autonomous community Basque Country . This department was created in 1936 and restored in 1980. It is led by the PSE EE socialist Rodolfo Ares from 2009 . Organization This department is divided into two sub departments. It comprises 11 directorate s, 2 Cabinet government cabinets and 3 child agencies. Department of the Interior Cabinet of the Minister Directorate of Services Directorate of Legal Regime Directorate of Service to Victims of Terrorism Sub Department of the Interior Directorate of Emergencies Directorate of Gambling and Shows Directorate of Elections and Papers Documentation Sub Department of Security Cabinet of the Vice Minister for Security Ertzaintza Ertzaintza Basque Police Directorate of Traffic Directorate of City Police Coordination Directorate of Main Resources Directorate of Human Resources Departments Basque Government DEFAULTSORT Home Office Of The Basque Government Category Basque Government BasqueCountry stub Spain gov stub eu Eusko Jaurlaritzako Herrizaingo Saila ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 The BESCAM Brigadas Especiales de Seguridad de la Comunidad Aut noma de Madrid is a police body created by the government of the Community of Madrid in Spain . Unlike the Ertzaintza or the Mossos d Esquadra , it is not a full blown police corps but a series of manpower and equipment contingents assigned to the already existing local police forces. Nonetheless, BESCAM contingents have different uniforms, and their vehicles have different livery. DEFAULTSORT Bescam Category Organisations based in Spain Category Municipal law enforcement agencies of Spain Law enforcement stub Spain org stub es Brigadas Especiales de Seguridad de la Comunidad Aut noma de Madrid ... more details
Law enforcement in Spain is carried out by numerous organizations, not all of which operate in the same areas. National Guardia Civil Spain Guardia Civil Civil Guard Polic a Nacional Spain Cuerpo Nacional de Polic a National Police Corp Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera Customs Service Regional Ertzaintza in the Basque Country autonomous community Basque Country Mossos d Esquadra in Catalonia Polic a Foral Foruzaingoa in Navarre BESCAM in Madrid Local Polic a Municipal also known as Polic a Local or Guardia Urbana in some cities in every town and city of a certain size. See also Crime in Spain Law enforcement agencies of Spain Europe topic Law enforcement in Category Law enforcement in Spain de Polizei Spanien es Fuerzas y Cuerpos de Seguridad Espa a eu Polizia Espainian sv Polisen i Spanien ... more details
Spain has a long history of combating domestic and international violence and of training units for special warfare or intervention. The following military and police units currently operate under a Special Operations mandate Navy Unidad de Operaciones Especiales UOE Special Operations Unit Army Special Operations Command Spain Mando de Operaciones Especiales MOE Special Operations Command Air Force Escuadr n de Zapadores Paracaidistas EZAPAC Guardia Civil Gendarmery Unidad Especial de Intervenci n Unidad Especial de Intervenci n UEI Grupo de Acci n R pida GAR National & Regional Police Grupo Especial de Operaciones Grupo Especial de Operaciones GEO Grupo Operativo Especial de Seguridad GOES Grup Especial d Intervenci Mossos d Esquadra Berrozi BBT Ertzaintza See also List of special forces units Category Special forces of Spain ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2009 Egin was a Basque people Basque newspaper written in Spanish language and Basque language . It was published from Hernani by Orain SA , which also ran the radio station Egin Irratia . Its first issue was published on September 29, 1977. For many years Egin was accused of being used by the separatist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ETA . In 1994, the Ertzaintza Basque police searched the headquarters of Egin. At dawn on July 14 of 1998, Judge Baltasar Garz n ordered the precautionary closure of both media and the arrest of several of Orain, SA. In August 1999, the judge authorised the reopening of the newspaper, however by then the machinery had been dismantled or was useless by lack of upkeep and the promoters had no funds, since they were being used to pay bails and fines imposed on the defendants, and the newspaper remained closed. The newspaper Gara filled the void. Fact date June 2009 Category Basque language newspapers Category Newspapers published in Spain Category Publications disestablished in 1998 Category Publications established in 1977 Spain newspaper stub br Egin ca Egin es Egin eu Egin fr Egin gl Egin ... more details
Infobox terrorist attack title 2008 Getxo bombing image Getxo car bomb 2008.jpg caption Ertzaintza officers in front of a damaged building location Getxo , Biscay , Spain target date 19 May 2008 time begin 00 50 time end timezone UTC 01 00 UTC 1 type Car bomb Van bomb fatalities injuries susperps perps ETA Campaignbox ETA 2006 2010 The 2008 Getxo bombing occurred on May 19, 2008, when a car bomb van bomb went off outside a Yacht club boat club in the town of Getxo, Biscay in the Basque Country autonomous community Basque Country , Spain . The attack caused serious damage to the club, as well as nearby buildings and structures. No one was killed or injured after a warning call from the Basque nationalism Basque separatist organisation ETA . On May 31, the organisation claimed responsibility for the bombing. ref name gara1 cite web title ETA PSOE y PNV no ofrecen m s que un oscuro futuro lleno de l mites url http www.gara.net paperezkoa 20080531 80252 es ETA PSOE PNV no ofrecen mas que oscuro futuro lleno limites work gara.net language Spanish date May 31, 2008 accessdate 2010 12 06 ref Five days before the attack, another ETA car bomb in a Civil Guard Spain Civil Guard barracks in Legutio Legutiano , lava killed a Civil Guard member and injured four. Both attacks were blamed on the Biscay cell of ETA led by ETA Arkaitz Goikoetxea Basabe , which was most active after the end of the ETA s 2006 ceasefire declaration 2006 ceasefire , and was responsible for several attacks in the region ..., and four people were wounded in another car bomb attack on July 24. On January 22, 2001, Ertzaintza ... a vehicle in the middle of the road. Once Ertzaintza officers spotted the vehicle, the area ... were affected in some way by the attack. ref name elmundo1 After the attack, Ertzaintza kept the area ... were not arrested. ref name diariovasco1 cite web title Polic a y Ertzaintza intensifican la b squeda ... policia ertzaintza intensifican busqueda 20080731.html work diariovasco.com language Spanish date ... more details
Fernando Buesa Blanco 29 May 1946 22 February 2000 was a Politics of Spain Spanish Basque people Basque politician in the Basque Christian Democracy and in the Socialist Party of Euskadi Euskadiko Ezkerra PSE EE branch of the Social Democracy social democratic Spanish Socialist Workers Party PSOE . He was assassinated by ETA . Born in 1946 in Bilbao , Basque Country autonomous community Basque Country , Spain , Buesa studied law in Madrid and Barcelona and practiced from 1970 to 1986 in Vitoria Gasteiz . He was a councillor in Vitoria Gasteiz 1983 97 , a member of the Basque Parliament parliament of the Basque Country 1984 2000 and leader of lava province council 1987 91 . Buesa was also deputy lehendakari president of the Basque government and secretary of Education in a coalition PSE Basque Nationalist Party Basque Country autonomous community Government Basque government from 1991 to 1994. From this position, he steered the process that moved the Basque language Basque language schools ikastola k into either the Basque public education network or the Basque private education sector. Fernando Buesa was married and had three children. At the time of his death Buesa was the leader of the PSE EE in lava and the PSE EE spokesman in the parliament of the Basque Country. He was killed by the terrorist group ETA while he was walking through the university campus in Vitoria Gasteiz on the 22 February 2000. The car bomb ing also killed his bodyguard, the Ertzaintza ertzaina Basque policeman Jorge D ez Elorza. The killing inspired a celebrated documentary by the Basque filmmaker Eterio Ortega Santillana titled Asesinato en Febrero Assassination in February . His brother, an economics professor in Madrid, has become politically active analysing the economic implications of eventual Basque nationalism Basque independence . The sports arena of the Vitoria Gasteiz Saski Baskonia Baskonia basketball team, which was formerly known as Araba Arena , was renamed Fernando Buesa Are ... more details
police car and plate. Image Ertzaintza Volkswagen Bilbao.jpg thumb Ertzaintza police car and plate. Image 2007 07 31 Ertzaintzak 2 BMW.jpg thumb Ertzaintza motorcycle plates. CME Cos dels Mossos ... since 2008 Cuerpo Nacional de Polic a Spain Spanish Police E Ertzaintza Autonomous police force of the Basque ... more details
accused of taking part in a molotov attack against a Ertzaintza police station in Amorebieta . In 2000 ... in Galdakao , in which a policeman was wounded. ref name kaleborroka dos cite web title La Ertzaintza ... work europapress.es url http www.europapress.es 00066 20071123145649 ertzaintza identifica jurdan ... 4&DOCID 48A6CA93C5CB6AE5C125739C00454A34&ORIGENLLAMADA Internet Martitegi profile at Ertzaintza ... more details
, Ertzaintza police officers raided his home in connection with these attacks on May 3, 1998. ref ... in a molotov cocktail attack against two Ertzaintza officers in Portugalete on August 5, 2001 and failed ... 24, 2007 A 5 kg bomb explodes in front of an Ertzaintza police station in Zarautz , Gipuzkoa . No one ... more details
align right 24 style background efefef align left Ertzaintza align right 13 style background efefef ... , is shot dead by ETA members. ref name eta attacks correo July 7 Ertzaintza officers defuse a bomb ... off outside an Ertzaintza related union office in Bilbao . ref name mir january 2001 January 20 Two homemade bombs explode outside the houses of two Ertzaintza officers in Bilbao. No one was injured ... kills an Ertzaintza officer in Hernani. Hours later, a bomb went off at a post office in Beasain ... 14 A van bomb explodes in Leiza, Navarre, killing UPN councilor Jose Javier M gica. Hours later, an Ertzaintza ... 5 Two Ertzaintza officers are injured in Portugalete after being attacked with Molotov cocktails and stones ... exploded in front of an Ertzaintza officer house in San Sebasti n. ref name mir august 2001 August ... of the Ertzaintza in Vitoria. No one was injured. September 18 A bomb explodes in front of a social ... correo November 20 Two Ertzaintza officers are injured as they tried to remove a booby trapped banner with a pro ETA slogan in Bilbao. ref name eta attacks correo November 23 Two Ertzaintza officers ... February 18 A 6 kg bomb placed in front of a Ertzaintza police officer house in Murueta , Biscay ... September 14 ETA members ambush two Ertzaintza police officers in an lava road after faking a car accident ... more details
Infobox President name Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza nationality Spanish people Spanish image Karlos garaikoetxea.jpg office 3rd List of Basque Presidents Lehendakari of the Basque Country order term start 2 May 1979 term end 2 March 1985 predecessor Jes s Mar a de Leizaola successor Jose Antonio Ardanza birth date Birth date and age 1938 6 2 df y birth place Pamplona , Navarre , Spain dead alive death date demise place spouse Sagrario Mina party Basque Nationalist Party PNV ? 1985 , Eusko Alkartasuna EA 1985 vicepresident Mario Fernandez br 1979 1985 Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza born in Pamplona , Navarre , 2 June 1938 is a former Basque politician. He became the second elected Lehendakari President of the Basque Country autonomous community Basque Country , after Jos Antonio Aguirre politician Jos Antonio Aguirre , who had held that office in 1936 60. He was a leading figure in the Basque Nationalist Party EAJ PNV of Navarre in the period 1975 80. In 1979, he has elected president of the Basque General Council , the preautonomic body preparing the devolution of powers to the Basque Country prior to the approval of the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country Statute of Autonomy . Once approved, Garaikoetxea was elected Lehendakari in 1980 and reelected in 1984. During his presidency the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country basque statute of authonomy was developed. As Lehendakari inaugurated the emission of Basque Television EiTB on 31 December 1982. In his term, important self government institutions were created the Basque Health Public System Osakidetza and Ertzaintza , the Basque police service, which was directed by his close collaborator Juan Porres Azkona since 1982 until 1986. During the Bilbao The 20th century floods of August 1983 he managed both Basque and Spanish emergency services in order to solve the resulting problems. The economy recovered through the revision of the Basque Concierto Econ mico and the Basque language was established throughout ... more details
Over detailed date April 2009 File Atutxa 2.jpg float right 150px Juan Mar a Atutxa Mendiola Areatza , May 18, 1941 is a politician from the Basque Country autonomous community Basque Country an autonomous community in Spain with a Basque nationalism nationalist ideology . A member of the Basque Nationalist Party , he has been Basque Government Head of the Department of Interior 1991 98 and List of Presidents of the Basque Parliament President of the Basque Parliament 1998 2005 . He currently heads the Sabino Arana foundation . NOTOC Head of the Department of Interior 1991 1998 During his term as a regional minister, he was tasked with implementing the recently passed Basque Country Police Act which the regional police body Ertzaintza and mandated its extension to the whole autonomous community. Since then, the criminality rate s in the Basque Country have consistently ranked among the lowest in Spain according to the data published each year by the office of the Spanish Attorney General Citation needed date April 2009 . He also implemented the Emergency Response Act, a law unifying the protocols for emergency assistance in the Basque Country, and the Spectacles Act, which mandated periodic safety inspections on buildings authorized to hold public events. Electoral regulations were also under his responsibility. In this area, he drafted the reform of the electoral law establishing the possibility of a future use of electronic voting and leaving the actual date of implementation to the Parliament. Furthermore, the Department of Interior introduced many technological advances during his tenure, greatly increasing the pace of the scrutiny and offering election night data over the Internet , a first in Spain. President of the Basque Parliament 1998 2005 In the Basque parliamentary election, 1998 1998 election the Basque Nationalist Party renewed its ranks, dropping incumbent Lehendakari Jos Antonio Ardanza in favour of the younger, more nationalist oriented Juan Jos I ... more details
Image Ertzaintza Volkswagen Bilbao.jpg thumb 200px Ertzaintza police car in Bilbao. The former government ... year nationalist predominance. The autonomous community has its own police force the Ertzaintza ... more details
deadurl no ref ref name ertzaintza burgos cite web title Coste del terrorismo Perdidas econ micas ... authorities dismantled a cell of ETA ready to shoot king Juan Carlos I. ref name ertzaintza burgos ... attempted the magnicide once more in Majorca. ref name ertzaintza burgos cite web title ETA ... more details
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