GENERAL COMMISSARIAT
OF ALIENISM AND BORDERS
STRUCTURE AND
FUNCTIONS
This presentation aims to show the organizative
structure and the functions of the general
commissariat of aliens and documentation.However,
and for a better vision, we consider it suitable
explaining in a superficial way the Spanish police
system,where the general commissariat assumes
with an exlclusive character the competences in
terms of borders control , alienism, illegal
immigration and both spanish and aliens
documentation.
PUBLIC SECURITY IN SPAIN
AUTONOMOUS
POLICE
SECURITTY STATE
CORPS
CIVIL GUARD
CATALUÑA AND
BASQUE
COUNTRY
MUNICIPAL POLICE
NATIONAL
POLICE CORPS
STATE SCOPE
MUNICIPALITIE
S
STATE SECURITY CORPS
MINISTRY
OF
INTERIOR
SECRETARÍAT OF
STATE FOR
SECURITY
GENERAL
DIRECTORATE OF
THE CIVIL GUARD
GENERAL
DIRECTORATE OF
POLICE
CIVIL GUARD
CORPS
NATIONAL
POLICE CORPS
NATIONAL POLICE FORCE
FUNCTIONS
GENERICS
SPECIFICS
•Citizens security
• Issuing Identity cards and Passports
• Judicial Police
• Controlling the entry and departure
from the national territory
• Information
• Administrative Police
TERRITORIAL SCOPE:
• Alienism Regime
• Combating drug trafficking
• Private Security control
PROVINCE CAPITALS AND BIG URBAN
CITIES
TERRITORY SCOPE:
ALL THE NATIONAL TERRITORY
NATIONAL POLICE FORCE
COMPOSITION
• SUPERIOR SCALE
•PRICIPAL COMMISSIONER
•COMMISSIONER
65
383
• EXECUTIVE SCALE
•CHIEF INSPECTOR
•Inspector
2.417
4.063
• SUBINSPECTOR SCALE
•Subinspector
4.142
• BASIC SCALE
•POLICE OFICIAL
•POLICE
TOTAL
5.065
36.805
53.113
SUPPORT OFFICERS
TOTAL
5.358
58.471
GENERAL POLICE DIRECTORATE
GENERAL TECHNICAL
OFFICE
SUBDIRECTORATE
GENERAL OPERATIVE
SUBDIRECTORATE
GENERAL
COMMISSARIAT OF
INFORMATION
GENERAL
COMMISSARIAT OF
JUDICIAL POLICE
GENERAL
COMMISSARIAT OF
PUBLIC SECURITY
GENERAL
COMMISSARIAT OF
ALIENISM AND
DOCUMENTS
GENERAL
COMMISSARIAT OF
SCIENTIFIC POLICE
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
AND HUMAN RESOURSES
SUBDIRECTORATE
PERSONNEL
DIVISION
PERIPHERIC
ORGANIZATION
20 SUPERIOR POLICE
HEAD QUEARTERS
52 PROVINCIAL
TRAINING
DIVISION
POLICESTATIONS
137 LOCAL
POLICESTATIONS
TECHNICAL AND
ECONOMICAL
COORDINATION
DIVISION
67 DISTRICT
POLICESTATIONS
13 ALIENISM AND
DOCUMENTATION
UNITS
4 JOINT
POLICESTATIONS
67 BORDER POSTS
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
FUNCTIONS
 Issuing National Identity Cards, Passport and Residencey
Cards.
 Controlling
the entry and departure from the national
territory of spaniards and aliens.
 Illegal inmigration networks investigation.
 Alienism police regime, refugee , asylum and immigration.
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
FUNCTIONS WITH REGARDS TO ALIENISM AND IMMIGRATION
 Controlling the entry and departure from the national
territory of spaniards and aliens.
 Issuing aliens Residence Card.
 Investigation of the illegal immigration nets.
 Procedure of return and expulsion files.
 Management direction regarding to Aliens Internment.
 Execution of expulsions and repratriations.
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
CENTRAL STRUCTURE
GENERAL
SECRETARIAT
CENTRAL UNIT FOR
SPANISH
DOCUMENTATION
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
NETWORKS AND FALSE
DOCUMENTS UNIT
EXPULSION AND
REPATRIATION CENTRAL
UNIT
BORDER
CENTRAL
UNIT
BILATERAL
COMMUNITARY
RELATIONS UNIT
TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE
PROVINCIAL
SQUADS
LOCAL
SQUADS
JOINT
ALIENISM AND
POLICESTATIONS
DOCUMENTATION UNIT
BORDER POST
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
GENERAL
SECRETARIAT
FUNCTIONS
 Assistance and support to the General Commissioner
 Planning of the mejor objectives
 Personnel and resources management
 Data base control of the General Commisariat
 Management of documentation of the foreigners residing
in Spain
 Management of the Central Police Archive
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
GENERAL
STRUCTURE
SECRETARIAT
CENTRAL
ARCHIVE
ALIENS
DOCUMENTATION
SERVICE
PLANIFICATION
AND
CONTROL SERVICE
COORDINATION
ROOM
APPEALS
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
UNIT AGAINST IMMIGRATION NETS AND FALSE
DOCUMENTATIONS (U.C.R.I.F.)
FUNCTIONS
 Investigation of the human being trafficking nets
 Obtaining and analysis of important police information
 Investigation, analysis and study of document forgeries at
the illegal inmmigration scope
 Territorial coordination of the U.C.R.I.F.
 Cooperation with Ministry of Work Inspection
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
UNIT AGAINST IMMIGRATION NETS AND FALSE
DOCUMENTATIONS (U.C.R.I.F.)
STRUCTURE
INVESTIGATION
SQUAD FOR FALSE
DOCUEMNTS
SQUAD FOR
INVESTIGATION OF
IMMIGRATION NETS
FORGERIES
INVESTIGATION
AMERICA
ASIA
TECHNICAL
SECTION
EASTERN
COUNTRIES
INTELLIGENCE
SECTION
AFRICA
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
UNIT AGAINST IMMIGRATION NETS AND FALSE
DOCUMENTATIONS (U.C.R.I.F.)
La Coruña
Vigo
Lérida
Gerona
Barcelona
Tarragona
TERRITORIAL
DEPLOYMENT
Madrid
Valencia
Palma Mallorca
Alicante
Murcia
Sevilla
Almería
Málaga
Campo de Gibraltar - Algeciras
Ceuta
Melilla
Tenerife
Las Palmas
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
BORDER CENTRAL
UNIT
FUNCTIONS
 Management and control of entry and departure from the
national territory of spaniands and aliens
 Border posts coordination
 Management of police regime regarding asylum and
refuge
 Operational cooperation at the European Union borders
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
CENTRAL BORDERS
UNIT
STRUCTURE
BORDER POSTS
COORDINATION
ASYLUM AND
REFUGE
STATISTICAL
CONTROL
OPERATIONAL
SERVICE
NATIONAL
BORDERS
E.U. BORDERS
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
UNIT FOR THE SPANISH
DOCUMENTATION
FUNCTIONS
 Organization and management if issuance services of the
national identification card and passaport
 Coordination and control of the issuance equipements
 Elaboration of studies and reports on the matter
 Coordination and control of the management of the
F.N.M.T.
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
UNIT FOR THE SPANISH
DOCUMENTATION
STRUCTURE
SPANISH
DOCUMENTATION
SERVICE
TECHNICAL
OPERATIONS
GENERAL
ISSUES
VERIFICATION
(FNMT)
ISSUANCE
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
CENTRAL UNIT FOR EXPULSIONS AND
REPATRIATIONS
FUNCTIONS
 Direction, coordination, organization, control and
executions of expulsions, devolutions and repatriations of
minors.
 Management
and obtaining of documentation of those
people for expulsion, return or repatriation
 Control
and coordination of Aliens Internment Centres
(C.I.E.)
 Any functions concerning borders, alienism and
documentations
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
CENTRAL UNIT FOR EXPULSIONS AND
REPATRIATIONS
STRUCTURE
EXPULSIONS
SERVICE AND
INTERNMENT CENTRES
DOCUMENTATION
MANAGEMENT
EXPULSIONS
AND RETURNS
INTERNMENT CENTRES
AND PENITENCIARY
CENTRES
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
UNIT OF BILATERAL AND COMMUNITARY
RELATIONS
FUNCTIONS
 Canalization
and following up of the execution of the
international and communitary law respecting the General
Commissariat matters
 Coordination
of the participation of the General
Commisariat in the working groups of the European
Union
 Elaboration
of studies and reports in relation with the
participation of the General Commisariat at the
international level
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND DOCUMENTATION
UNIT OF BILATERAL AND COMMUNITARY
RELATIONS
STRUCTURE
INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION
COMMUNITARY
COOPERATION
BILATERAL
COOPERATION
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND
DOCUMENTATION
PPERSONNEL STAFF
• SUPERIOR SCALE
•PRINCIPAL COMMISSINER
•COMMISSIONER
3
65
• EXECUTIVE SCALE
•CHIEF INSPECTOR
•Inspector
166
379
• SUBINSPECTOR SCALE
•Subinspector
321
• BASIC SCALE
•POLICE OFICIAL
•POLICE
341
2.618
TOTAL
3.846
SUPPORT OFFICERS
1.723
TOTAL
5.941
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENISM AND
DOCUMENTATION
PRINCIPAL FIGURES OF THE DEVELOPPED
BORDER CONTROL AND REPATRIATIONS
• RETURNS AND READMISSIONS:
• EXPULSIONS Y DEVOLUCIONS:
67.265
25.468
NETWORKS INVESTIGATIONS
• DESMANTLED NETS
• ARRESTED
333
1.469
REPATRIATIONS AND REMOVAL WITHIN THE NATIONAL TERRITORY
• CHARTERED FLIGHTS
•ABROAD:
. WITHIN THE NATIONAL TERRITORY
• REMOVED PEOPLE
•ABROAD:
•WITHIN THE NATIONAL TERRITORY
41
374
2.862
12.181
ESTRATEGICAL LINES OF
ACTION
GENERAL COMMISSARIAT OF ALIENIMS AND DOCUMENTATION
STRATEGICAL PLANS OS ACTION
 Efficient control at the borders
 Strengthening of the investigation respecting illegal
immigration nets
 Improvement of means concerning internment and
repatriations
 Promoting of a high international cooperation
 Implementation of electronic Identity Card (e-DNI)
EFFICIENT IMPROVEMENT OF BORDER CONTROLS
 Increasing of the human resources at the main post borders
and at the alienism units


Main international airports
E and D Units situated at the border with France
 Setting up technical systems of Control



Document checking
F.A.D.O. system
Advanced Information System of Passengers (A.P.I.)
 More participations in international joint operations

External borders of the E.U.
 Border programmes


Work post plans in the Catalogue
Training improvement
STRENGTHENING OF INVESTIGATION OF NETWORKS DEALING
WITH ILLEGAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING
 Increasing of information obtaining

At the internal and external level
 Promoting a bigger information exchange

With specialised police of those countries being a point of starting trnasit or
destination
 Promoting the international operational colaboration

Joint operation of investigation
 Adding to the investigation financial means

Implementing in an efficient way the investigation aspects
 Priority of certian aspects of investigation

Organized forgery of travel documents
STRENGTHENIG OF THE INVESTIGATION OF NETWOKS
DEALING WITH ILLEGAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING (II)
 Strengthening of the central UCRIF structure

A new operational section with two Operational Groups
 Starting of new UCRIF


1 phase: Girona, Lleida y Galicia
2 phase: Gradual extension to the rest of the national territory
 Increasing of human and material resources of the territorial
UCRIFS


1 phase: 10 %
2 phase: 20 %
 Strengthening colaboration with Information and Judicial
Police

Conections with organized delinquency and Islamist terrorism sphere
 Increasing of the cooperation with Work Inspection
IMPROVEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE MEANS
RESPECTING INTERNMENTS AND REPATRIATONS
 Creation of the Central Unit for Expulsions and Repatriations


Disign of the organizative Unit structure
Action in the P.T.Catalogue and its functioning
 Increasing of the numbers of cualified expulsions

Foreigners involved in delective activities
 Promoting a bigger coordination with the Penitenciary Centres

Expulsion of illegal foreigners who serve Sentence
 Extension and improvement of Internment Centres for
Foreigners


Construction or Improvement of Internment Centres in Madrid, Barcelona,
Murcia y Valencia
Proyect for the creation of new Internment Centres in the Spanish Northen
Area
PROMOTING OF A BIGGER INTERNATIONAL COLABORATION
 Promoting a general common policy of borders in the
European Union


Bilateral contacts
European Border Agencies
 Promoting bilateral contacts

Countries of preference: origin, transit
or destination flows
 Extension of the Officers liaison Nets

Subsaharan African Countries
 Promoting readmission agreements signature

Countries of origin for the migratory flows
 Strengthening Police and Customs Cooperation Centres
ELECTRONIC IDENTITY CARDS (e-DNI)
 Advantages of the electronic identity card e-DNI


Bigger reliability for the identification
Possibility to add the electronic signature
 Technical aspects of the proyect


Hardware (card)
Technical support (chip)
 Organizative aspect



Territorial implementation plan
Offices adaptation
Trainig programme
 Proyect starting


Beginning : March of 2006 (Pilot project)
Conclusion : Decembre of 2007
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