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.

The Gendarmerie is a new branch of the service in which training and education is being supported by the French Military Cooperation in Equatorial Guinea.

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.

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.

In response, Rome turned up the pressure, demanding that Tirana name Italians to direct the Gendarmerie ; join Italy in a customs union ; grant Italy control of the country's sugar, telegraph, and electrical monopolies ; teach the Italian language in all Albanian schools ; and admit Italian colonists.

As a direct result of the Cretan Gendarmerie's success in its duties, the organization of the Greek Gendarmerie was also assigned to Italian officers in July 1911.

Its mission, as detailed on Article 16 of the 1992 Interior Security Law 24. 059, is to be a federal agency within the Ministry of Interior to strategically coordinate and direct the functions and operations of the intelligence services of the Federal Police, the National Gendarmerie, and the Naval Prefecture.

There, they immediately run into trouble with the Gendarmerie, then Godefroy is sent to the mental hospital ( the police believes that he is suffering from amnesia ), and after Godefroy tries to destroy the postman's car ( which they mistake for a devil's chariot with a Moor in it ), they meet Béatrice de Montmirail, an aristocrat who looks exactly like Frénégonde ( being her descendant ).

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 was by the regular patrols of the newly founded National Gendarmerie that Johannes Bückler, later a well known robber and often called “ Schinderhannes ”, was caught, although at this time he was nothing more than a small-time livestock thief in the Hunsrück and the northern Palatinate.

Since 1941, the division of the zones of activity between the Police and the Gendarmerie was that cities with more than 10, 000 inhabitants were handled by the Police, and the remaining ones by the Gendarmerie ; however, with the development of suburban dwellings, this had increasingly proved inadequate.

One colonel suggested that Major-General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, chief of the staff of the National Gendarmerie, would be a more appropriate choice, but Ndindiliyimana declined to take responsibility, to the astonishment of some officers.

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

The National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, commonly abbreviated GIGN (), is a special operations unit of the French Armed Forces.

* most commonly Tombak in modern society is used in medals and awards of lesser importance, such as the Dutch Oldensburge Long-Service Medallion for their Gendarmerie ( Oldenburgse Onderscheiding voor Langdurige Dienst in de Gendarmerie ).

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.

* a section of the military responsible for policing in both the armed forces and in the civilian population ( most gendarmeries, such as the French Gendarmerie, the Italian Carabinieri and the Portuguese Republican National Guard also known as GNR )

Note: in Canadian French, only the federal police ( RCMP ) is known as " Gendarmerie " ( GRC ).

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.

" In the region of Đakovica, Montenegrin police-military formation Royal Gendarmerie Corps ( Kraljevski žandarmerijski kor ), known as krilaši, committed much abuse and violence against the non-Christian population.

For this reason, both the Police and the Gendarmerie maintain regional services dedicated to criminal investigations ( police judiciaire ); these are known as " regional services of judiciary police " in the Police, " research sections " in the Gendarmerie.

* Gendarmerie Repetier-Karabiner M1881: 11mm Gendarmerie Carbine ( also known as M1874 / 81 );

The Hundred Lances eventually became the company known as the Gendarmerie of France who distinguished themselves at Fontenoy in 1745.

The alleged coup was investigated by a revolutionary commission headed by Boyenge Mosambay Singa, at that time head of the Gendarmerie.

The principal instrument of American authority was the newly-created Gendarmerie d ' Haïti, commanded by American officers.

When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.

The security of Albania was to be provided by a Gendarmerie commanded by Dutch officers.

After 1862 the spiked helmet ceased to be generally worn by the Russian Army, although it was retained until 1914 by the Cuirassier regiments of the Imperial Guard and the Gendarmerie.

The component parts of the military ( other than the purely historical Crossbow Corps ) are distinguished ( as in many nations ) by distinctive cap badges, one each for the Fortress Guard ( uniformed ), Fortress Guard ( artillery ), Guard of the Council, Uniformed Militia, Military Ensemble ( band ), and Gendarmerie.

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 '.

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

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.

Although it was aborted by the French Gendarmerie, it gained a lot of popularity for his cause in Catalonia.

Military education in Grudziądz was also provided by the Centre of the Gendarmerie, the Air School of Shooting and Bombarding, and the N. C. O.

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.

* Used by Greek armed forces, resistance fighters, Gendarmerie and police units during World War II and immediately postwar.

After a short fight with the Gendarmerie ( both French and Belgian ), the town was conquered by the Germans.

The brigade of the Maison du Roi, the Carabiniers, the Gendarmerie, the finest cavalry of France, charged and charged again, but each time were driven back by the steady discipline and fire of the British infantry.

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.