0 a police force that is part of the armed forces in France and some other countries where French is spoken:
She called the local gendarmerie.
Yet given the government's financial difficulties, which regularly resulted in months of delay for salaries, work in the gendarmerie, not surprisingly, lacked appeal.
In this period, placing gendarmerie forces under civilian administration ensured government control of the provinces.
From this perspective, the gendarmerie enables us to explore an understudied aspect of modern state formation: human interactions within the context of quotidian politics.
The reform plan included a critical reorganization of the gendarmerie (asakir-i zabtiye).
The result was a torrent of futile complaints to the gendarmerie and the judiciary.
Several demonstrations led to violent clashes with the armed forces (police, gendarmerie and army).
Yet, chronic budgetary problems that intensified in the 1870s and after constrained the government's ability to adequately finance the gendarmerie reform initiatives described previously.
The reorganization of the gendarmerie was the primary focus of the program, followed by judiciary and financial reform.
