gendarme

Outside, TV crews stood at the ready and a comedian dressed as a gendarme sold “genuine fake Swiss passports.”

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Mali's gendarme police force said Ms Pétronin was reportedly in the Sikasso area, close to Mali's south-eastern border with Burkina Faso.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021

After 35 years of digging, investigators determined that the suspect had worked as a gendarme in the Paris region between 1986 and 1994, and summoned 750 current or former officers for questioning this week.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

Dinghies used by migrants to try to cross the channel are seen at the French gendarme brigade in Marquise, France, August 20, 2020.

From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2021

After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

Soldiers from France’s counterterrorism operation will also be deployed to guard government buildings and other sensitive sites, freeing police and gendarmes to respond to unrest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Almost 2,000 people were arrested on Thursday alone and 305 police officers and gendarmes were injured, according to the Interior Ministry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The number of gendarmes patrolling the coast within Dieppe and further to nearly the Le Havre area have been increased, she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Nearly 16,000 French police, gendarmes, troops, firefighters and border guards will be deployed, using boats, motorcycles and drones, alongside mounted police and dog-handling units, France's Haute-Savoie regional prefecture said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

A week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gendarmes, those despicable military police.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque