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.
New tensions were now apparent within the armed forces, the gendarmerie, and the police.
The gendarmerie remained entirely outside their purview.
The tasks of the gendarmerie did not require literacy, and regulations were tailored accordingly.
Seen from the institutional or "social control" perspective, disciplinary organizations such as the urban police and the gendarmerie fulfilled functions espoused by the administrative elite.
The gendarmerie was doubtless a mechanism for carrying out the ruling elite's policies in the provincial context.
From the second half of the 1860s on, the government replaced these irregular forces with gendarmerie.
After the 1879 reorganization, the gendarmerie became a police organization under the command of the chief of staff.
The reorganization of the gendarmerie was the primary focus of the program, followed by judiciary and financial reform.
