Draft:Operation Strade sicure

Operation Safe Streets (Italian: Operazione Strade sicure) is a public security support operation launched in Italy in 2008 by the Fourth Berlusconi government and extended several times over the years, consisting of the use of the Italian armed forces personnel in the fight against crime. There are currently around 7,000 Italian Army soldiers involved in the operation.

History
It was established with the legislative decree of 23 May 2008, no. 92 - subsequently converted into law 24 July 2008, n.125. The first activities began on August 4th of the same year. From 7 February 2011, pursuant to law no. 220 of 13 December 2010 (stability law 2011), the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway was also placed under surveillance. It was extended several times with legislative decree no. 78 of 1 July 2009, until December 31st, 2013 (law no. 135 of 7 August 2012) and also for all of 2014. The operation was then extended until June 30th of 2015, with an increase in the number of army personnel employed - from 3,000 to 4,500 units - and by 600 for Expo 2015, subsequently until December 31st of the same year and then further extended for the following years.

Activities
It makes the personnel of the Italian armed forces available to the prefects of some provinces for the protection of of public order, the fight against petty crime and the surveillance of sites and objectives deemed sensitive, attributing to such personnel the status of public security agents with the extension of the faculties set forth in Article 4 of Law No. 152 (Royal Law), as well as reconnaissance and patrolling in conjunction and jointly with the police forces in order to increase deterrence against petty crime and for surveillance services at "sensitive" sites and objectives, as well as to carry out territorial control operations in metropolitan or densely populated areas. The planning and coordination of the operation was entrusted to the Joint Forces Operational Command (COI).

The activity includes patrolling streets and/or guarding sensitive objectives (such as first reception centers, identification and deportation centers), and takes place in thirty-eight cities: Rome, Milan, Florence, Naples, Vercelli, Verona, Turin, Chiomonte, Bologna, Treviso, Casert, L'Aquila, Catania, Vittoria, Palermo, Messina, Gela, Reggio Calabria, Modena, Gorizia, Crotone, Lamezia Terme, Catanzaro, Foggia, Bari, Brindisi, Trapani, Caltanissetta, Bergamo, Pisa, Pordenone, Monza, Brescia, Parma, Prato, Venice, Mestre, Padua, Agrigento, Ancona, Pescara, Rimini, Salerno, Genoa, Vicenza and other cities in Italy.