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Encyclopedia > Gendarmes

A gendarmerie (French) is a military body charged with general police duties. The members of such a body are gendarmes. Many French-speaking countries have a gendarmerie, but the national police of Austria is also a gendarmerie. It is also used as a generic term for any similar force. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is named in French Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC).


List of Gendarmerie and similar forces

In Belgium, the Gendarmerie (Rijkswacht in Dutch) was passed to civilian control in 1991. In 2001, the Gendarmerie was suppressed; the Belgian police forces were streamlined into federal and local police forces.


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BBC NEWS | Africa | Gendarme sentenced over Berber death (384 words)
The gendarme is reported to have served most of his time in jail and is expected to be free in five months' time.
The gendarme, Merabet Mestari, was convicted of involuntary homicide and involuntary injury with a firearm.
The gendarme, whose trial lasted 15 minutes, was sentenced on 29 October in the garrison town of Blida, 50km south of Algiers.
Gendarme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (103 words)
A gendarme (from French: gens d'armes, "men at arms") is a military policeman belonging to a gendarmerie.
The word is often incorrectly used to refer to any French policeman.
In mountaineering, a gendarme is an isolated rock pinnacle.
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