A beautiful sunny day, coming and going of cars, soldiers waiting for civil and military personalities to arrive. Along the avenue the 4 regiment of the carabinieri on horseback commanded by Colonel Paolo Galvaligi and the fanfare on horseback directed by the fanfare leader MAsUPS Fabio Tassinari.
On the other hand, the press, journalists, photographers and cameramen.
Here they are together reviewing the regiment on horseback: the general commander of the Arma, General Tullio Del Sette does the honors and welcomes Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti, the Chief of Defense Staff, General Claudio Graziano, the president of the council, the Claudio Gentiloni and the military councilor of Palazzo Chigi, General Carmine Masiello. Together they review the 4 ° regiment on horseback and enter the school to reach the assembly hall.
Students welcome personalities by singing Italians singing on stage.
The classroom is packed, among the many personalities present there are vice president of the constitutional court Giorgio Lattanzi, the vice president of the senate Maurizio Gasparri, the interior minister Marco Minniti, the deputy interior minister Filippo Bubbico, the undersecretary of state at the Ministry of the Interior Gianpiero Bocci and the Ministry of Justice Cosimo Maria Ferri, the president of the parliamentary defense commission Nicola Latorre, the rector of LUISS Paola Severino, the president of the national anti-corruption authority Raffaele Cantone, the general secretary of Palazzo Chigi Paolo Aquilanti , the chiefs of the armed forces and the secretary general of the defense, the general commander of the financial guard Giorgio Toschi, the head of the department of the penitentiary administration Santi Consolo, the president of the gold medal group at the general VM Umberto Rocca, the president of the national carabinieri general association of ca Libero Lo Sardo and exponents of Italy the representative bodies of the Weapon.
The ceremony was opened by the school commander, division general Vittorio Tomasone, who addressed his greetings to those present by explaining the educational activities carried out by the Institute.
The general commander Tullio Del Sette (photo) then took the floor and, after underlining how the absorption of the forestry corps into the Weapon was a "historical passage" that allowed the country to constitute "an environmental police force without previous, not only in Europe, for its breadth and potential ", he explained what the Arma has done in the training, logistic and operational sector to continue to keep efficient the operational model of the Arma," a built model, in over two hundred years of history , on the value of closeness to people ".
The 4.641 Carabinieri stations and legacies are the emblem: legality safeguards, but also places for listening, reassuring and welcoming, as happened during the snow emergency in Abruzzo, "real providers of proximity service". Presidia enriched by the almost 1000 forest Carabinieri and park stations.
General Del Sette illustrated the operational contribution of the weapon in the national security system, from interventions against organized crime to those against internal subversion and international terrorism, in synergy with other police forces and information agencies, and what has been done to strengthen the investigative and scientific investigation sectors.
The international commitment in 11 operational theaters has been mentioned with over 400 carabinieri employed in training and consulting tasks in support of local police in Iraq, Djibouti, Palestine and Somalia and the many technical collaboration agreements with countries that "they look with interest at the security model represented by the Weapon to support its development path", As well as the 450 carabinieri employed to protect the Italian diplomatic offices. The "blue helmets for culture" dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage in the event of natural disasters, international crises or armed conflicts are also included in the international cooperation sector.
The framework of apolice force with general jurisdiction, military status, territorial vocation, with international projection. An institution that innovates through the comparison with everyday reality also in communication”, For example with the opening to the main Social, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube platforms.
Lastly, General Del Sette, before inviting the Minister of Defense to declare the Academic Year open, recalled that the official school is first and foremost a school of values, declined in this year's historical calendar: ethics, honor, integrity , respect, competence, commitment, efficiency, cohesion, serenity, tradition, loyalty and faith.
"A Faith that must be, without rhetoric, unshakable, contagious of legality and trust for all citizens, testified by the example of those who preceded us and remembered in the words of General Carlo Alberto from the Church: we choose to be the officer of the carabinieri because it is believed".
The Minister of Defense Roberta Pinotti then took the floor, declaring the 2016-2017 academic year open, addressing the young officers, to whom she reiterated the importance of training and the quality of military training, underlining that "you are a carabiniere, you don't do it". It is leadership training, and the leader is the one who "he can decide by taking responsibility". "For you, the values remembered in the calendar will be polar stars. The carabinieri - he continued - they have always been and continue to be together and around our people and that's where you need to be".
The morning ended with the intervention of the President of the Council of Ministers Paolo Gentiloni who reiterated the gratitude of the Nation for the Arm, an essential component of the Country system. Today the carabinieri are called to respond to a widespread demand for legality that arises from the uncertainty of the present: "this is why I ask you to make an effort to be more and more an element of security in the country. I know that we can count on you, that Italy and Europe can count on our carabinieri".
