gendarmerie

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The woman's partner, aged 55, is a former French gendarmerie officer who left the force in 2010.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

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

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

A rural police officer was on the line, asking if he could come down to the gendarmerie for a chat.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2023

“It’s very ambitions and it’s true that many experts have voiced opposition,” said Bertrand Cavallier, the former commander of France’s national gendarmerie police training center, speaking in a phone interview.

From Washington Times • May 23, 2023

Sweet told us that on first landing he had seen the commandant of the local gendarmerie, whom he had no difficulty in bluffing, as the skipper had foretold.

From A Kut Prisoner by Bishop, H. C. W.