Torpedo
One Too Many
- Messages
- 1,332
- Location
- Barcelona (Spain)
Hello,
I work in Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalonia's authonomous police force. Catalonia is an authonomical community in Spain - more or less comparable to an US State.
Well, when this force was re-created in the 1980's, they took the traditions of historical Mossos d'Esquadra, founded in the XVIII Century as a militia-type security body fighting against bandoleers and the like. The name is also traditional. I would compare it with the retention of such names as Texas Rangers, or State Troopers.
Well, we have a Parade Squad that serves in ceremonial occassions, that is clad with a reenacted oufit recalling those old origins. Actually, it is more an evocation than a real, accurate, reenactment effort, but it is not a bad attempt.
Regards!
I work in Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalonia's authonomous police force. Catalonia is an authonomical community in Spain - more or less comparable to an US State.
Well, when this force was re-created in the 1980's, they took the traditions of historical Mossos d'Esquadra, founded in the XVIII Century as a militia-type security body fighting against bandoleers and the like. The name is also traditional. I would compare it with the retention of such names as Texas Rangers, or State Troopers.
Well, we have a Parade Squad that serves in ceremonial occassions, that is clad with a reenacted oufit recalling those old origins. Actually, it is more an evocation than a real, accurate, reenactment effort, but it is not a bad attempt.
Regards!