Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería
Law enforcement agency
- Counter terrorism, special weapons operations. Protection of internationally protected persons, other very important persons, and/or of state property of significance.
- Coastal patrol, marine border protection, marine search and rescue.
The Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería (Infantry Guard Corps, CGI) is the official denomination of all police riot control services of Argentina. Both federal and provincial law enforcement agencies have at least one.
The CGI are small, quick response teams, trained mainly in crowd control tactics and equipped with non-lethal shotguns, gas masks, police batons, plastic shields and other specialized riot gear.
See also
- Scorpion Group
- Albatross Group
- Hawk Special Operations Brigade
- Federal Special Operations Group
- Argentine Federal Police
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- Policía Federal
- Gendarmería Nacional
- Prefectura Naval
- Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria
- Federal Penitentiary Service
- Anti-Corruption Bureau
- Buenos Aires City Police
- Buenos Aires Urban Guard (defunct)
- Policía Metropolitana (defunct)
- Grupo Alacrán
- Grupo Albatros
- Grupo de Operaciones Federales
- Guardia de Infantería
- Grupo Halcón
- Grupo Uno
- Operaciones Especiales
