In recent days, between 4 and 6 June, a delegation of officers of the corps, composed of the commander
of the Economic and Financial Police School, gen. D. Francesco Mattana, by the commander of the courses section, gen. B. Gianluca de Benedictis, together with eight officers attending the 51st secondary school, carried out a study mission at the Provincial Command of Reggio Calabria.
The higher economic-financial police course is a two-year course attended by a small number of senior officers chosen through a selective competition based on qualifications and exams. The course responds to the need to prepare very high professionalism in all sectors of institutional activity and represents the training course of excellence of the Guardia di Finanza by virtue of the disciplines covered, the teaching structure, the quality of the teachers and the professional and cultural level of the attending officers.
The delegation, welcomed by the Calabria regional commander Gen. D. Gianluigi D’Alfonso and the provincial commander Gen. B. Maurizio Cintura, visited the headquarters of the provincial command and the other dependent departments, where the peculiarities of the socio-economic fabric, the presence of the corps departments in the province and the main operating results achieved.
The visit continued at the Gioia Tauro Group, where there was the opportunity to delve deeper into the activity carried out by the body in the fight against international drug trafficking. The officers also carried out a navigation on board the naval units of the naval operational section of Reggio Calabria.
The study mission finally concluded with the meeting with the prefect of Reggio Calabria, Clara Vaccaro, the general prosecutor of the Republic at the Court of Appeal, Gerardo Dominijanni and the deputy prosecutor of the Republic at the DDA, Giuseppe Lombardo.
On this occasion, the officers went to some of the most important cultural heritage sites in Reggio Emilia, such as the National Archaeological Museum, the permanent contemporary art gallery of works confiscated from the ‘Ndrangheta at the Palazzo della Cultura and the Aragonese Castle.
