Spain's paramilitary police protest for better pay < Spanish news | Expatica Spain: "Several thousand Spanish paramilitary police officers protested Saturday in Madrid over salaries and work conditions that they say should at least match the national police force.
Madrid's top court allowed the officers to hold the demonstration despite normally being forbidden from protesting and opposition from the interior ministry.
Dressed in civilian clothes, the officers began their protest at midday, shouting 'no to budget cuts' and holding banners with statements such as 'that's enough mistreatment'.
'We are the ones who have fought terrorism (the Basque separatist group ETA) far better than the national police, yet it seems the interior minister is marginalising us', one 62-year-old member of the guards' reserve brigade said.
Spain's civil guard, a police force with a military status like the French gendarmes or Italian Carabinieri, want work conditions on par with the national police, which has a civil status and less difficult working hours."
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