gendarmerie

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A French navy ship and two gendarmerie patrol boats were stationed nearby.

From Barron's

It would be overseen by a committee of officers from the army, gendarmerie and police.

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Meeting one of the demands of the protesters, the Senate announced Sunday the dismissal of its president, Richard Ravalomanana, a former general of the gendarmerie paramilitary police.

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Stating the country "no longer needs disturbances", his first appointments to his new cabinet were to the ministries of the armed forces, public security and the gendarmerie.

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According to the Irish Times, Winston Churchill demanded a “picked force of white gendarmerie” be deployed in Palestine after facing unrest in 1921.

From Los Angeles Times