There’s two types of police in Italy: The Polizia Locale (Local Police) and the Carabineri (Federal Police). The Local Police are great, friendly people: they give you directions, they help you when your car breaks down, they let you use their police station toilet when the bathroom is closed and you’re stuck in a train station for 6 hours (see: Milan).
The Polizia Locale have silly, bright yellow on their uniforms, and ride motorcycles and vespas and bicycles, and walk around town together having friendly chats (and getting gelato and coffee on night patrol--hah!) The Carabineri are terrifying. They wear camo, they have guns. They have big trucks and vans and jeeps. You do not talk to them. They are pretty much the Italian military.
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