Mossos d'Esquadra
| Mossos d'Esquadra | |
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| Common name | Mossos |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 21 April 1719 |
| Legal personality | Police force |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Catalonia |
| Map of Mossos d'Esquadra's jurisdiction | |
| Size | 32,108 km2 (12,397 sq mi) |
| Population | 7,727,029 |
| Governing body | Generalitat de Catalunya |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Complex Central Egara, Sabadell (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain |
| Mosso/as | 18.355 (2023) |
| Minister responsible | |
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| Facilities | |
| Stations | 106 |
| Website | |
| mossos.gencat.cat | |
The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈmosuz ðəsˈkwaðɾə]; English: "Police Squad"), also known as the Policia de la Generalitat de Catalunya and informally as Mossos, is the police force of the autonomous community of Catalonia. Their origins can be traced back to squads formed in 1719, however, after various abolitions and refoundations, the body was definitively restablished in 1950, becoming the official police of Catalonia in 1983 and being progressively deployed throughout the Catalan territory between 1994 and 2008.