I am sorry, but I agree with you just partially. But I am sure we can continue to live bearing this.

No, sam… I do know what I am talking about. Although I am using a caustic way, I am telling the truth.

Yes, sam… I am knocker, a persistent critic. Anyone who lives in Italy and who has a funcional brain becomes a person like this. Blame the country, not me.

Regards.

First of all, thanks for your comments.

Well, I decided to not mention the specialized branches just to minimize somehow the post. Overall, you are right: considering the small departments, one could find many more (useless) police branches.

But regarding the infamous Lega Nord, I can not concede anything… I mean, they are morons. And, as such, they try use shortcuts to get votes and win elections. Bottom line, they use antagonism as political instrument. As any fascist party has been using, since the Stone Age… Today, they are using immigrants, extracomunitari… Tomorrow: skin color, religion… What makes me mad is the Italian experience with Fascism: one should learn with History.

I mean, if one is not able to learn with History, one should, at least, learn with the cinema. Anyone who sounds like Darth Vader has to be the villain. So, be careful with Bossi!

You can say Lega Nord does not consider itself a fascist party. But they look like, they smell like, they walk like… You know, like our friend Bill said: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But, this is just a quote… Lega Nord is far more related to a pig than to a rose…

About the boats… OK… You are right: I did not mention Venice. I was not completely fair. Without boats no deal in Venice. Congratulations you are a smart Italian (like me, by the way), a rare specimen. Move outside, stupidity can be contagious.

- you forgot local police, Italian coast guard, ambiental police and many other little police forces

- lega nord is not a fascist ( not officially ) but racist party, and with this I don’t want to defend in any way lega nord party wich is one of the main problems we have actually in Italy

- the Postal police controls the internet and the postal service, I don’t think it’s useless it protects the customers against buncos and pedophilia, there are many and many divisions which are more useless

- you forgot the digos police division ( political police) and the dia ( the antimafia department)

- the boats in the pitures ( police, carabinieri, polizia penitenziaria and guardia di finanza) are used just in Venice, which is a city (my city) without any car, so the boat is the most used convey to move in the city, there are infacts water bus water taxi and private boats because Venice hasn’t got any road, but we move by the canals.

By the way I agree with you, Italy is like the bananas republic.