gendarmerie
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The government has mobilized 70,000 officers nationwide from the police and gendarmerie, a branch of the armed forces with policing duties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
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
It would be overseen by a committee of officers from the army, gendarmerie and police.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
Four mobile gendarmerie squadrons are being deployed as reinforcements, including 15 gendarmes from an elite intervention unit.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
Determined to investigate the matter to the utmost, he had already despatched two of his servants to the town of St. Flour, to command the instant attendance of a detachment of gendarmerie.
From A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
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