The Gendarmerie, responsible for internal security, has a strength of several thousand.

The Gendarmerie recruits Malagasy citizens between the ages of 20 and 30 ( or 35 if the recruit has prior military service ).

It has contributed to United Nations peacekeeping operations worldwide, with Argentine soldiers / engineers and police / Gendarmerie serving in El Salvador – Honduras – Nicaragua ( where Navy patrol boats painted white were deployed ), Guatemala, Ecuador – Peru, Western Sahara, Angola, Kuwait, Cyprus, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and East Timor.

While the French army has not included any grenadiers since 1870, the grenade badge is still a distinctive mark of the Foreign Legion, the National Gendarmerie and the French Customs which was a military unit until 1940.

The French Navy has a flotilla based in Réunion, comprising ( from left to right on the photo ): the Southern patrol ship Albatros, the frigate Floréal, the P400 class patrol vessels La Rieuse and La Boudeuse and the patrol boat of the Gendarmerie Navale Jonquille, the BATRAL La Grandière and the Garonne, behind the CIGH22 tank, and the swift boat Vétiver ( outside the water ).

In France, the gendarmerie has crowd and riot control units ( the Gendarmerie Mobile, along with some corresponding units in the civilian police ), counter-terrorism and hostage rescue ( GIGN, again along with some corresponding units in the civilian police ), maritime surveillance, police at sea and coast guard ( Gendarmerie maritime ), control and security at airports and air traffic police ( Gendarmerie des transports aériens ), official buildings guard, honorary services and protection of the President ( Garde Républicaine ), mountain rescue ( Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne ) and security of nuclear weapons sites.

The massacre of Brabant has also been linked to a conspiracy among the Belgian " stay-behind " network SDRA8 ( Gladio ) — operating as a secret branch of the Belgian military service — the Belgian Gendarmerie SDRA6 and the US secret service Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ).

The French Navy has a flotilla based in Réunion, comprising ( from left to right on the photo ): the Southern patrol ship Albatros, the frigate Floréal, the P400 class patrol vessels La Rieuse and La Boudeuse and the patrol boat of the Gendarmerie Navale Jonquille, the BATRAL La Grandière and the Garonne, behind the CIGH22 tank, and the swift boat Vétiver ( outside the water ).

* Gendarmerie Nationale, a gendarmerie ; it has primary responsibility for smaller towns and rural areas, as well as all military installations ; run by the Ministry of Defence but under operational control, for most purposes, of the Ministry of the Interior ; its strength is roughly 100, 000 agents.

The Gendarmerie has the foremost and best-known, the GIGN ; the Police has the RAID and the GIPN groups.

The Gendarmerie also has armored and paratroops squadrons.

Since the term Gendarmerie was noticed in the Assignment Decrees published in the years following the Tanzimat Declaration, it is assumed that the Gendarmerie organization was founded after the Tanzimat Declaration of 1839, but the exact date of foundation has not been determined yet.

The Fort de Charenton, constructed between 1841 and 1845, has since 1959 housed the Commandement des Écoles de la Gendarmerie Nationale.

The naval forces include two P400 class patrol vessels, a BATRAL and a patrol boat of the Maritime Gendarmerie.

In addition to the army, navy and air force, there are two forces controlled by the Interior Ministry: the Argentine National Gendarmerie, a gendarmerie used to guard borders and places of strategic importance ; and the Naval Prefecture, a coast guard used to protect internal major rivers and maritime territory.

The two French anti-riot forces, the CRS and the Gendarmerie Mobile are often mistaken with each other, as their missions are similar, but they can be distinguished by uniform.

After two days Laver and Mills were apprehended at Montlieu-la-Garde by the Gendarmerie and handed over to the Germans.

Thus, on 24 October 1912 the commander of the Cretan Gendarmerie with four officers, two senior non-commissioned officers and 150 constables left from Chania for Athens and thence to Thessaloniki aboard the steamer Arcadia.

Among the deployed troops were two Reconnaissance companies, a Military Gendarmerie unit, a component of the 10th Logistics Brigade, elements of the 5th Military Engineers Regiment, and three Mil Mi-8 helicopters.

It comprised three infantry battalions ( each of approximately 800 men ), seemingly including 6 Battalion at Watsa ,( under Lieutenant Colonel Merckx in 1960 ) two battalions of Gendarmerie ( each of approximately 860 men ), a reconnaissance squadron ( jeeps, trucks and armoured M8 Greyhound vehicles-approximately 300 men ), a transport company, a military police company ( approximately 100 men ), a heavy mortar platoon, a combat engineer company and a training centre at Lokandu.

* Province de Kivu: 3rd Instruction Centre, Lokandu ( 17 OSO and 1194 GS ), 11th Infantry Battalion at Rumangabo, HQ 7th Gendarmerie Battalion at Bukavu, two gendarmerie companies at Bukavu, two detached gendarmerie companies, and four detached gendarmerie platoons.

His hunting party consisted of eight gamekeepers from the Royal Captaincies of the Hunt, two mounted gamekeepers on loan from the Duke of Orléans, three aides of the Duke of Penthiévre, a servant of the Prince de Condé, two doghandlers, a valet, and Antoine's own son, de Beauterne, of the Gendarmerie Royale.

The Gendarmerie may call upon the assistance of the Municipal Police in cases of major crime or national security, and ( following revised regulations for both corps introduced by the Government of San Marino in 2008 ) may also call upon soldiers and border guards of the Fortress Guards Corps, in their secondary role as ' Criminal Police Officers '.

Black defended General Augustin Ndindiliyimana the former chief of staff of Rwanda's Gendarmerie or National Police Force, and highest ranking Rwandan military officer, before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania who was acquitted of all substantive charges against him in 2011 but convicted of genocide based on simple failure to punish some subordinates for alleged crimes which conviction is under appeal.

Gendarmerie Criminal Department was founded in Ankara in 1993 and Gendarmerie Regional Criminal Laboratory Superiorities were founded respectively in 1994 in Van, in 1998 in Bursa and in 2005 in Aydın.

The branches of Burkina Faso's military include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police, and People's Militia.

The Military of Chad consists of the Armed Forces ( includes Ground Force, Air Force, and Gendarmerie ), Republican Guard, Rapid Intervention Force, Police, and National and Nomadic Guard ( GNNT ).

The Luxembourg Army was integrated into the Force Publique ( Public Force ) which included the Gendarmerie and the Police.

The Gendarmerie was merged into the Grand Ducal Police in 2000.

Mali's armed forces are the Army, Air Force, Gendarmerie, Republican Guard, National Guard, and National Police ( Sûreté Nationale ).

The IISS listed paramilitary total force as 4, 800: 1, 800 Gendarmerie ( 8 companies ), 2, 000 Republican Guard, and 1, 000 Police.

* La Gendarmerie Maritime: Le Fulmar-Marine Police

: The Municipal Police ( Corpo de Polizia Civile ) is not part of the armed forces of San Marino, but it does work closely with them, particularly with the Gendarmerie.

The Municipal Police are required by statute to collaborate with the Gendarmerie and the Fortress Guard Corps in policing the state.

Bucharest also houses the General Inspectorates of the Gendarmerie and the National Police.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) ( ( GRC ), literally ‘ Royal Gendarmerie of Canada '; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘ The Force ') is both a federal and a national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world.

Although it is again difficult to determine their effectiveness, popular anti-German demonstrations, such as general strikes by the Paris Métro, the Gendarmerie and the Police, took place, and fighting between the opposing forces ensued.

* Gendarmeries, e. g. Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( Gendarmerie royale du Canada ), Egyptian Central Security Forces and India's Central Reserve Police Force

In 1813 it was dissolved following the attempted coup of General Malet and replaced by the Imperial Gendarmerie of Paris and then, under the Restoration, the Royal Guard of Paris and the Royal Mounted Police of Paris.

This differs from the situation in many countries such as France, where policing is split between the National Police and Gendarmerie, or such as the United States which have a layered system of national, state / regional and / or local law enforcement organizations.

The rank is also used by the Argentine National Gendarmerie and the Argentine Federal Police, which use the rank in the same manner as the Army, as well as the Argentine Naval Prefecture.

Until the police reformation around 2001, the Belgian Rijkswacht / Gendarmerie was, besides its civilian policing tasks, responsible for the nation's Military Police duties.

The Gendarmerie, or " Military Police ", known as the Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia is a paramilitary unit with about 7, 000 soldiers deployed in all provinces.

Since 1996 security check-points have transferred from the Police Nationale / Gendarmerie de l ' Air to private companies hired by the airport authorities.

In France, traffic policing on highways is the responsibility of dedicated units of the Gendarmerie Nationale ( France ), the Escadron départementaux de sécurité routière ( EDSR ) and the CRS autoroutières of the National Police ( France ).