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The Argentine National Gendarmerie (Spanish: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina, also abbreviated to GNA) is the gendarmerie of Argentina. A gendarmerie (pronounced ) is a military body charged with police duties among civilian populations. ...
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Background
The Argentine National Gendarmerie has a strength of 12,000.
The gendarmerie is primarily a frontier guard force and functions from four regional headquarters at Campo de Mayo, Córdoba, Rosario and Bahía Blanca. In many senses the gendarmerie essentially remains an adjunct of the Argentine Army. The Argentine Army (Ejército Argentino) is the land armed force branch of the Argentine military and the senior military service of the country. ...
The Argentine gendarmerie calls itself the "sentinel of the motherland and peace" (spanish: Centinela de la Patria y de la Paz).
Personnel and training Non-commisioned personnel of the gendarmerie are all volunteers and receive their training in the force’s own comprehensive system of training institutions. Officers graduate after a three-year course at the National Gendarmerie Academy. Both officers and non-commissioned personnel have access to the specialist training establishments of the Army.
History The gendarmerie was created in 1938 by the Argentine parliament, and replaced the regiments of the Army which previously fulfilled the gendarmerie’s missions. The gendarmerie was particularly tasked with providing security in isolated and sparsely populated frontier regions which had only been settled relatively recently. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Activities The gendarmerie’s mission and functions are fulfilled within the domestic security as well as the national defense framework, supporting the foreign policy of the country.
According to the Argentine Constitution, the armed forces cannot intervene in internal civil conflicts, so the Gendarmerie is subordinate to the Interior Ministry. However, it maintains a functional relation with the Ministry of Defense, as part of both of the National Defense System and the Interior Security System. It therefore maintains capabilities arising from the demands required by a joint military planning with the armed forces. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Constitution of Argentina The Constitution of Argentina is one of the primary sources of law in Argentina. ...
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The gendarmerie’s main missions are:
- Providing security for Argentina’s borders.
- Providing security for places of national strategic importance (e.g. nuclear plants).
The gendarmerie is also used for other security missions, which include : Nuclear power station at Leibstadt, Switzerland. ...
- Policing missions:
- Assisting provincial police sevices in maintaining public security in rural areas
- Preventing smuggling
- Fighting drug trafficking
- Fighting terrorism
- Crimes “against life and freedom” (children and organs trade, slavery, etc).
- Dealing with economic crime
- Dealing with environmental crime
- Dealing with illigeal immigration
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Organization
High Command The high command includes: The current national director is Commandant-General Hector Bernabé Schenone (since September 2005). - The Deputy National Director
The current Deputy National Director is Commandant-General Juan Obdulio Sainz (since November 2005). - The General and Special Staff of the National Direction of the GNA
Rank structure The ranks of the Argentine gendarmerie, in ascending order:
Sub-Officer ranks
- Corporal
- Corporal First Class
- Sergeant
- Sergeant First Class
- Sergeant-Adjutant
- Principal Sub-Officer
- Sub-Officer-Major
Officer ranks - Sub-Ensign
- Ensign
- First Ensign
- Second Commandant
- Commandant
- Principal Commandant
- Commandant-Major
- Commandant-General
Unit structure - The section (spanish: seccion) is the basic sub-unit.
- The group (spanish: grupo) consists of several sections and is the basic operational unit of the gendarmerie.
- The squadron (spanish: escuadron) consists of three groups.
- The grouping (spanish: agrupación) consists of several squadrons. The grouping may be thought of as roughly corresponding to a level of command between that of a battalion and that of a regiment/brigade.
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Operational units - Regional Headquarters
- Mobile Units
- Special Forces Units
- Intelligence Squadron
- Highway Security Sections
- Environment Protection Service
- Mountain Rescue Groups
- Scrubland Special Section
Support units - Logistics Squadron
- Telecommunications and Computer Service
- Expert Investigation Service
- Aviation Service
- Medical Assistance Service
See also In recent years, Argentina has had a strong partnership with the United States. ...
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External link - (Spanish) Official website
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