Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería

The Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería (Infantry Guard Corps, CGI) is the official denomination of all police riot control services of Argentina. Both federal and provincial law enforcement agencies have at least one.

Infantry Guard Corps Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería
Abbreviation	CGI
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Argentine
General nature	Civilian police
Specialist jurisdictions	Counter terrorism, special weapons operations. Protection of internationally protected persons, other very important persons, and/or of state property of significance. Coastal patrol, marine border protection, marine search and rescue.
Operational structure
Parent agency	Argentine Federal Police

The CGI are small, quick response teams, trained mainly in crowd control tactics and equipped with non-lethal shotguns, gas masks, police batons, plastic shields and other specialized riot gear.

See also

• Scorpion Group
• Albatross Group
• Hawk Special Operations Brigade
• Federal Special Operations Group
• Argentine Federal Police