Grises
The Armed Police (Spanish: Policía Armada), conventional long names Cuerpo de Policía Armada y de Tráfico, 'Armed and Traffic Police Corps') and Fuerzas de Policía Armada, 'Armed Police Forces'), —popularly known as los grises, 'the grey ones') owing to the color of their uniforms— was an armed urban police force of Spain established by the Francoist regime in 1939 to enforce the repression of all opposition to the regime. Its mission was "total and permanent vigilance, as well as repression when deemed necessary."
The first commander of the Policía Armada was General Antonio Sagardía Ramos. In its first years of operation the corps was inadequately equipped in armament and vehicles but this situation would be steadily straightened out.
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