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Policía Nacional (actually Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, "National Police Corps") is the countrywide urban police agency of Spain. These forces are under the sole authority of Spain's Ministry of the Interior. They handle criminal, judicial, terrorism and immigration matters mostly. However, these forces have limited deployment and competencies in the Basque Country and Catalonia territories, where Ertzaintza (Basque autonomous police) and Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan autonomous police) respectively, handle most matters. The issuing of DNI IDs and passports is restricted to the CNP in all the Spanish territory.
The Grupo Especial de Operaciones ("Special Operations Group") is their special operations brigade, trained against terrorism and security crisis.
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Their current uniform is navy blue. Their telephone number is 091. The prefix in their number plates is DGP (Dirección General de Policía).
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Its earlier uniform was brown, leading to their nickname la madera/los maderos ("the wood"/"the logs"). Among supporters of the violent Basque terrorist organization ETA, Policía Nacional is loathed as txakurrak (Basque for "the dogs").
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