gendarmerie
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A bike racing controversy that doesn’t involve a rogue doctor and a midnight raid by the gendarmerie?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
A French navy ship and two gendarmerie patrol boats were stationed nearby.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
Four mobile gendarmerie squadrons are being deployed as reinforcements, including 15 gendarmes from an elite intervention unit.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
Alex Batty appeared to be keen to be taken to an embassy in a big French city, but the student decided to contact the gendarmerie, the French military police.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
But then, once the Miroslav gendarmerie learned that a man named Parmet whose home was at Zorki was missing, the secret could not last for any length of time.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan