The Northern Operational Forces Command (COMFOP Nord), originally named Northern Interregional Defence Forces Command, is responsible for the territorial activities related to the promotion of the recruitment or the management of the volunteer completion forces; it is also responsible for particular and important operations and competitions provided by the Armed Forces to Institutions and local Associations, to the Civil Protection and to the Police Forces in the Northern-Central Italy such as: remediation by war device, natural disaster, reinforcement of the Police Forces testified by the "Safe Roads" Operation (ongoing from 2008) in many Italian cities.
The Northern Operational Forces Command assumed its current name on 1st October 2016, when it passed at the dependencies of the Chief of General Staff of the Army.