In 1988 Colonel Koffi Botty was the high commander of the National Gendarmerie, having replaced Brigadier General N ' daw in 1983.

The National Gendarmerie was responsible for defending rural areas and maintaining domestic order, thereby complementing the conventional tactical capabilities of the regional military commands.

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.

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

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.

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

In popular parlance after 1970 it was often as the Gendarmeria and in 2002 it actually took the name Corps of Gendarmerie.

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

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.

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.

In January 2006, the European Gendarmerie Force was inaugurated in Vicenza.

The Gestapo and the Nazi Gendarmerie Burned Alive 1600 People July 10, 1941 .” In March 2001 this inscription was removed.

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

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.

There, after he was captured and disarmed by the Gendarmerie, he was murdered by Captain Jean-Marc Démaret.

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

The National Gendarmerie used it until the late 90s when it was phased out after all 7. 5 mm ammunition stocks were depleted.

In France the Maréchaussée was the forerunner of the French Gendarmerie.

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

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

** BG-Bundesgendarmerie ( federal police )-obsolete since 2005 when Gendarmerie and police merged, but still valid on Gendarmerie / police cars registered before 2005

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.

Paramilitary organisations include 2, 000 Gendarmerie in 20 companies, and a Presidential Guard, possibly organised into a battalion.

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

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 Gendarmerie Nationale of Niger opened another investigation into the former prime minister, this time on charges he had embezzled 100 million CFA ( 152 500 Euros ) of foreign aid for independent press and communications development during the 2000 to 2006 period.

Both were later to be among the first Cretans commissioned into the Gendarmerie.

In July 1913 the Cretan Gendarmerie was incorporated into the Greek Gendarmerie.

Captured by the Romanian Gendarmerie soon after their landing near Plosca, Teleorman County, he and his team were taken into custody as prisoners of war and held in a Bucharest apartment.

In 1836, the Gendarmerie of the Internal Guards was transformed into the Special Corps of Gendarmes, under the Chief of Gendarmes.

The Gendarmerie organization achieved its current legal status after Law No. 1706 entered into force on June 10, 1930.

Law No. 6815 which entering into force in 1956 assigned the Gendarmerie General Command such duties as protecting borders, coasts and territorial waters and fighting smuggling which had been previously carried out by Gümrük Umum Kumandanlığı that was a military organization at the level of division in affiliation to the Ministry of Customs and Monopoly.

In 1957, Gendarmerie Border Units were transformed into brigades and Gendarmerie Training Brigades were established.

Law No. 2803 on the Organization, Duties and Responsibilities of the Gendarmerie entered into force in 1983.

Law No. 3497 entering into force in 1988 assigned the duty of protecting the land borders and ensuring their security to the Land Forces Command, but Gendarmerie General Command still holds the responsibility for some parts of the Iranian and Syrian borders and the whole Iraqi border.

The Argentine security forces admitted to 43 army troops killed in action in Tucuman, although this figure does not take into account police and Gendarmerie troops, and the soldiers who died defending their barracks in Formosa province on 5 October 1975.

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 ).

* Grand Ducal Gendarmerie