As of July 2011, General Soumaïla Bakayoko is the chief of staff of the army, and colonel-major Gervais Kouakou Kouassi is the Chief of the Gendarmerie.

There is also a Gendarmerie, but the number of members is unknown.

Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches — army, navy, air force, the paramilitary National Gendarmerie and the Republican Guard — whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is subordinate to the Minister of Defense.

The Gendarmerie is the direct descendant of the Marshalcy of the ancien regime, more commonly known by its French title, the Maréchaussée.

According to an international commission report released by the Romanian government in 2004, Antonescu's dictatorial government of Romania is responsible for the murder in various forms ( including deportations to concentration camps and executions by the Romanian Army and Gendarmerie and the German Einsatzgruppen ), between 280, 000 to 380, 000 Jews in Romania and in the war zone of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria.

There is also a military Gendarmerie which is part of the military forces of the republic.

Established in 1842, the ' Corps of Gendarmerie of San Marino ' () is a militarized police service, under the control of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Politics.

The Gendarmerie has two ' Divisions ' entitled ' Criminal Police Division ' and ' Flying Squad Division ', each of which is further divided into operational ' Brigades '.

: 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 Gendarmerie is a military force which provides policing and security.

The commander is General Abdoulaye Fall ( a different person from the current Armed Forces Chief of Staff of the same name ), whose rank is Divisional General, and whose full job title is " High Commander of the Gendarmerie and Director of Military Justice ".

The Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City is a civilian force maintained by the Vatican City.

The Military of Madagascar is made up of the People's Armed Forces and the National Gendarmerie.

As of 2010, the military of Madagascar is composed of the 8, 100 paramilitary of the National Gendarmerie and the 13, 500 members of the People's Armed Forces.

The National Gendarmerie ( Gendarmerie Nationale ), a paramilitary body, is used mainly as a police force in rural areas.

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.

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.

This was one of the reasons cited for the decision to disband the Belgian Gendarmerie, absorbing its functions into those of a new national police force.

The original GIGN absorbed the Gendarmerie Parachute Squadron ( EPIGN ) and the thirty gendarmes of the GSPR to form a " new " expanded GIGN.

For example the Italian Police demilitarised in 1981, or the Austrian Gendarmerie merged with the national police making up a new civilian body.

It was agreed that a new body of Gendarmerie would be formed and recruited only from Cretans.

The core of the new Cretan Gendarmerie were the small units that the powers had created.

In the summer of 1899, Carabinieri Captain Federico Craveri was named commander and organizer of the new Cretan Gendarmerie.

The first objective of the Greek mission was the creation of a militia and the equipping of the Gendarmerie with new rifles of the Mannlicher-Schönauer type.

The new army was to consist of no more than 19, 000 soldiers and 6, 000 Gendarmerie.

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 ).

During a Cabinet meeting on 11 May 1920, the Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill, suggested the formation of a " Special Emergency Gendarmerie, which would become a branch of the Royal Irish Constabulary.

The collar patch and shoulderboards were backed, and the sleeve eagle ( below the rank of Leutnant ) embroidered, in truppenfarbe, a color-code which indicated the branch of police: green for Schutzpolizei ( municipal police ) and police general officers, orange for rural Gendarmerie, carmine-red for fire brigades, gold for maritime police and so on.

The battalion is a branch of the French Navy ( Marine Nationale ), and consists of fully military personnel, like the Paris Fire Brigade ( a branch of the French Army ), and PGHM ( a branch of the French Gendarmerie ).

The Turkish Gendarmerie (: Gendarmerie General Command ) is a branch of the Turkish Armed Forces and it is responsible for the maintenance of the public order in areas that fall outside the jurisdiction of police forces ( generally in rural areas ), as well as assuring internal security and general border control along with carrying out other specific duties assigned to it by certain laws and regulations.

As of June 2008, service commanders were Colonel Boubacar Togola ( Armée de Terre ), Colonel Waly Sissoko ( Armée de l ’ Air ), Lieutenant-Colonel Daouda Sogoba ( Garde Nationale ) et du Colonel Adama Dembélé ( Gendarmerie Nationale ).

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

By the end of this month, they are assigned either to a civilian service or to the Army, Navy, Air Force or Gendarmerie.

In Chile, the word “ gendarmerie ” refers for historic reasons to the prison service ( the " Chilean Gendarmerie "), while the actual gendarmerie force is called the " carabineros ".

The Northern headquarters of French national meteorological service Météo-France, large barracks of the National Gendarmerie ( 450 gendarmes and their family ), the Northern headquarters of French national information and traffic center ( Centre régional d ' information et de circulation routière ).

* VBC-90: Armoured car variant in service with the Mobile Gendarmerie.

Enlistment in the Gendarmerie, which also had military duties ( the foundation of Militia having been postponed permanently due to lack of funds ), was considered an honorable service to the nation.

Inteligencia de la Gendarmería Nacional Argentina ( Argentine National Gendarmerie Intelligence ) is the intelligence service of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, commonly referred as SIGN ( Servicio de Inteligencia de la Gendarmería Nacional, National Gendarmerie Intelligence Service ) inside of the Intelligence Secretariat.

Despite this, by September 1960, following the four-way division of the country, there were four separate armed forces: Mobotu's ANC itself, numbering about 12, 000, the South Kasai Constabulary loyal to Albert Kalonji ( 3, 000 or less ), the Katanga Gendarmerie which were part of Moise Tshombe's regime ( totalling about 10, 000 ), and the Stanleyville dissident ANC loyal to Antoine Gizenga ( numbering about 8, 000 ).

It includes the Djibouti National Army, which consists of the Coastal Navy, the Djiboutian Air Force ( Force Aerienne Djiboutienne, FAD ), and the National Gendarmerie ( GN ).

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

This detachment ( which became today's Red Guard of Senegal ) was the cadre around which the " Colonial Gendarmerie " was formed.

The Gendarmerie and the Coast Guard, both of which have law enforcement and military functions, operate as components of the internal security forces in peacetime, and are subordinate to the Ministry of Interior.

He ruled Sardinia from Cagliari for the next twelve years, during which time he constituted the Carabinieri, a Gendarmerie corps, still existing as one of the main branches of the military of Italy.

By May, the Greek forces consisted of approximately 9, 000 troops: three battalions of the 5th Division of the Hellenic Army, which had been left behind when the rest of the unit had been transferred to the mainland to oppose the German invasion ; the Cretan Gendarmerie ( a battalion-sized force ); the Heraklion Garrison Battalion, a defence battalion made up mostly of transport and logistics personnel ; and remnants of the 12th and 20th Hellenic Army divisions, which had escaped to Crete and were organised under British command.

A number of these men joined the Palestine Gendarmerie, which was recruiting in the UK at this time.

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.

First appearing in 2001, the Beretta 92G-SD and 96G-SD models evolved from the 92G version which was designed specifically for the French " Gendarmerie Nationale " ( French military designation of " PAMAS-G1 " which was initially manufactured in Italy by Beretta with steel supplied by France, and subsequently manufactured under license from Beretta in France by GIAT ; 1987 – present ) and used also by the " Armée de l ' Air " ( French Air Force ) and other law enforcement agencies.

The appendix of the book contains documents such as the 1994 phone directory of the General Command of Gendarmerie, which contained the numbers of the JİTEM Group Commander and JİTEM units in each city.

His term was marked by the Susurluk scandal, during which he admitted the existence of the JİTEM counter-terrorist Gendarmerie unit.

The French Gendarmerie also uses a variant of the VAB, which replaced the VXB, called VBRG ( Véhicule Blindé de Reconnaissance de la Gendarmerie ) for riot control.

As a result, Crete was policed by four independent units of Gendarmerie, which were organised on completely different models.