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The larger towns have their police regularly employed, but the small towns are forced to do voluntary guard duty.  The community own arms & every able-bodied man among the villagers is on a list.  The community is then divided into guard sections which are each given their regular day of duty & are required to be on hand as noted.

These "vecinos," as they are called, are met in all sorts of out-of-the-way places & undoubtedly do much to make robbery difficult.