Talk:National Gendarmerie

Contradiction: ranks

This article:

• regions - general
• legions - colonel
• groupements
• compagnies

Ranks in the French Army:

• légions - général de brigade
• groupement - colonel
• brigade - lieutenant

Could anyone with any knowledge on this subject fix either this article, or the Ranks in the French Army article? Shinobu 19:43, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

This is normal, the terminology varies according to the arm. Both are corect. Rama 21:26, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Areas of responsibility

The areas of responsability between Police Nationale et Gendarmerie Nationale are not 10.000 unhabitants but 20.000 unhabitants. (french gendarmerie Officer) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.199.56.216 (talk) 08:38, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

What are those fruit shaped things on their hats and uniforms?!?!

Officer Crabtree from Allo Allo has one on his hat and uniform, and it has leaves on the top! Or is it supposed to be an explosive? (Curvebill 04:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC))

This should be on Quora, not a Wikipedia talk page. WP:TALK#TOPIC. _TheKuygerian^contribs
_userpage 13:51, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

It's called a grenade, it's usually a symbol for infantry. The italian carabinieri have it as well, so do the coldstream guards in England. Not sure where it comes from though... Saebhiar

Close, but no cigar. It is called a "grenade" or sometimes just "bomb" although it is not the symbol for infantry, but rather for "Grenadiers" which is an elite type of heavy infantry. Infantry as a body is usually symbolized by crossed swords or rifles depending on country

V. Joe 02:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Looks like we're both right. Infantries in France, Spain, Italy and most South American countries use the grenade as their symbol. Just because Commonwealth and US armies don't use it doesn't mean I'm wrong. :-) Besides, I did my military service in the French Gendarmerie so uh well... As a matter of interest if you look at the flames on the grenade they are made to look as antlers as Gendarmerie was mainly a rural police force back then. Saebhiar Adishatz 09:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Sort of. U.S. troops (Marines, Soldiers or Sailors) don't use the grenade as a symbol at all, for either heavy infantry or light infantry, nor for other branches that handle explosives (i.e. Combat Engineers or Navy Seaborne Engineers) V. Joe 15:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

AND, to add fuel to the fire, in the USA, the infantry used to wear a bugle as its symbol.--68.80.207.22 00:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

AND AND the Grenade IS used by the US Army's Ordnance Corps--71.242.127.31 15:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

The flaming bomb or grenade is also a common Ordnance acceptance stamp found on US military equipment. --Naaman Brown (talk) 22:20, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Legions of Gendarmerie renamed Regions

Since the territorial reorganisation of the Gendarmerie (1st July 2005), the 'legions' no longer exist and have been renamed 'regions'. (user : jlcavey from fr.wikipedia.com 81.67.45.88 15:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC))

Legal Authority section

"In 2002, in accordance with commitments entered into by Jacques Chirac at the time of her countryside for the presidential election of 2002, the forces of gendarmerie were attached to the ministry for the interior for their missions of interior safety. The gendarmes continued however to raise of the military statute. The brigades were reorganized in communities of brigades to the broader sphere of activity. The Law of orientation and programming for interior safety also took part in a new distribution of the forces of gendarmerie and police force in France."

This section appears to have been machine-translated; I've tried re-writing the paragraph but there are a few places where I just had to guess that it meant, so it's a bit vague and may not be accurate. Phonemonkey 13:11, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

faces

why are their faces blacked-out or pixelated?209.129.168.31 22:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

because they're soldiers, simply.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.98.228.10 (talk) 13:01, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Not sure about this answer. France has very strict privacy laws in respect to publish photographs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.201.188.102 (talk) 12:15, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Picture

This page needs a different picture as it shows the channel islands as part of the National Gendarmerie authority when they are not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.254.9 (talk) 17:10, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

History during World Wars

Article contains no reference to their history during WW1 & WW2, as well as service under Vichy regime —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.2.208 (talk) 13:36, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Powers

This long article doesn't explain what their powers are, or whether or in what circumstances they have power of arrest. Clivemacd (talk) 17:26, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

2016 General update.

Hello, I have just done phase 1 of a multi-phase update as the article really needed it. Among the points I have modified:

• the Gendarmerie has been attached to the Ministry of Interior since 2009 (after a transition phase started in 2002).
• In 2016, France reduced the number of its metropolitan administrative regions (ie not including overseas territories) from 22 to 12.
• The Mobile Gendarmerie organization has been slighty modified (the Paris-based FGMI has been disestablished).

There is still plenty to do, which I intend to do in the near future.

Please feel free to edit, correct etc. as my English is far from perfect. And of course, feel free to ask questions if some of my changes surprise you. Best regards, --Domenjod (talk) 15:13, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Title: National Gendarmerie (France)

Should we change the title to this? There are many countries that have a National Gendarmerie, like Mexico, Chile, etc. I don't think we should give France's National Gendarmerie the main title for this. MX (✉ • ✎) 21:56, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

External links modified (February 2018)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on National Gendarmerie. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://archive.is/20121218092644/http://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/eng/ to http://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/eng/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 18:56, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for deletion:

• OF6 GBR Rank French AirGendarmerie.png (discussion)
• OF6-GBR Rank French Maritime Gendarmerie.png (discussion)

Participate in the deletion discussions at the nomination pages linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 22:56, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Copy edit help

I don't really know how to modify this sentence:

In 1720, the Maréchaussée was officially attached to the Household of the King (Maison du Roi), together with the gendarmerie of the time, which was not a police force at all, but a royal guard. During the eighteenth century, the marshalcy developed in two distinct areas: increasing numbers of Marshalcy Companies (compagnies de marechaussée), dispersed into small detachments, were stationed around the French countryside to maintain law and order, while specialist units provided security for royal and strategic sites such as palaces and the mint (e.g., the garde de la prévôté de l'hôtel du roi and the prévôté des monnaies de Paris.) _TheKuygerian^contribs
_userpage 13:52, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

• Gendarmerie nationale logo.svg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 04:33, 21 October 2021 (UTC)