An Order for the Republic: The Celere and Mobile Police Units in Italy
Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Enzo Fimiani
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/309
Language Italian Pages 29 P. 123-151 File size 265 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2025-309005
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
Drawing on unpublished sources from public archives, as well as police documents made available to scholars for the first time, this contribution offers an innovative historical overview of the Celere and mobile police units. Established as early as 1944, both units were assigned in the postwar Republic the specific role of managing public order. First, this paper proposes a historiographical and methodological analysis of the current body of research on the general history of the Italian police — traditionally one of the most neglected areas of study in Italy. In the following sections, the origins of such special police units are reconstructed and interpreted. Thus, the paper explores the histories of the units and their relations with politics and society. Furthermore, it examines the perceptions, often negative, that have framed these police units throughout the decades from the post-war period to the present. Overall, the aim of this contribution is to reconstruct the controversial history of the Celere and mobile units, now recognised as an integral part of Italian history.
Keywords: Post-war Italy, History of Police, public order, riot police, Celere and mobile units
Enzo Fimiani, Un ordine per la Repubblica: i reparti celeri e mobili di polizia in Italia in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 309/2025, pp 123-151, DOI: 10.3280/IC2025-309005