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The Argentine National Gendarmerie has a strength of 12,000.

The Gendarmerie is primarily a frontier guard force but also fulfils other important roles. The force functions from four regional headquarters at Campo de Mayo, Córdoba, Rosario, and Bahía Blanca. Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountains on the Suquía River, about 700 km west-northwest from Buenos Aires. ... Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the third most populous in the country, after Buenos Aires and Córdoba. ... Plaza Rivadavia Bahía Blanca is a city located in the south east of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Atlantic Ocean, head town of Bahia Blanca Partido. ...

Personnel and training

Non-commissioned 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. The Argentine Army (Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land armed force branch of the Argentine military and the senior military service of the country. ...

History

The Gendarmerie was created in 1938 by the National Congress, 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. In many senses the Gendarmerie may still be considered an adjunct of the Argentine Army. The National Congress ( Spanish: Congreso de la Nación Argentina) is the legislative branch of the government of Argentina. ...

Activities

The emblem of the Argentine National Gendarmerie

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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 relationship with the Ministry of Defense, as part of both the National Defense System and the Interior Security System. It therefore maintains capabilities arising from the demands required by 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. ... The armed forces of Argentina are controlled by the Commander-in-Chief (the President) and a civilian Minister of Defense. ... Sistema de Seguridad Interior (Interior Security System, SSI) is the official denomination of the Argentine public security community. ...

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
  • Fighting crimes "against life and freedom" (children and organs trade, slavery, etc)
  • Dealing with economic crime
  • Dealing with environmental crime
  • Dealing with illegal immigration

• Military missions:
  • War-fighting missions (e.g. in the Falklands War)
  • Peacekeeping or humanitarian aid missions under the United Nations
  • Providing security for Argentine embassies and consulates in several foreign nations

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Organization

High Command

The high command includes:

• The National Director: 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 Directorate of the Gendarmerie.

Rank structure

The ranks of the Argentine Gendarmerie, in ascending order, are:

Sub-Officer Ranks

The ranks up to and including Sargento are classified as Subaltern Sub-Officers (Suboficiales Subalternos), and the remainder are classified as Superior Sub-Officers (Suboficiales Superiores). The sub-officer ranks are the same as Argentine army ranks, and wear the same insignia, but with a much thicker gold band for a Gendarmerie Principal Sub-Officer than is used in the Army. Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries, police forces or other uniformed organizations around the world. ... Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organisations around the world. ... An adjutant (from the Latin adiutans, present participle of the verb adiutare, to help; the Romans actually used adiutor for the noun) is an officer who assists a more senior officer. ...

Officer Ranks

The ranks up to and including Segundo Comandante are classified as Subaltern Officers (Oficiales Subalternos). Gendarmerie officers wear the same insignia as the equivalent Argentine Army rank. The National Director and his Deputy wear the insignia of an Argentine Lieutenant-General and Major-General respectively, although they have the rank of Commandant-General. (NB: Lieutenant-General is the highest Argentine Army rank.)

Unit structure

• A Section (Spanish: seccion) is a squad of several men.
• A Group (Spanish: grupo) consists of several sections and is the basic operational unit of the Gendarmerie.
• A Squadron (Spanish: escuadron) consists of three groups.
• A Grouping or Groupment (Spanish: agrupación) consists of several squadrons. This may be thought of as roughly corresponding to the level of command of a regiment.
• Above the groupments are the regional commands and the staff of the National Directorate.

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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

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Support units

• Logistics Squadron
• Telecommunications and Computer Service
• Expert Investigation Service
• Aviation Service
• Medical Assistance Service

See also

• Foreign relations of Argentina
• Argentine Naval Prefecture
• Argentine Federal Police

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External link

• (Spanish) Official website