Departmental Gendarmerie

The Departmental Gendarmerie has regular contact with the population and conducts local policing functions throughout the French territory.The basic organization is the gendarmerie squad or platoon sized "brigade", which includes from 6 to 40 gendarmes, and are generally located at the level of the canton.The gendarmes there receive the complaints, carry out the investigations administrative and legal and in a general way answer emergency calls.Each hierarchical level is ordered by an officer, person in charge for the units of the departmental gendarmerie placed under its spring.In addition to the brigades, the departmental gendarmerie contain units specialized in certain missions: This organization is in the course of modification with the recasting of the PRGD in PRSIG (group of reserve of monitoring and intervention of the gendarmerie) in order to better adapt to the needs of and the reinforcement of the commune units.
Renault Trafic Gendarmerie van
Gendarmes without kepis in an older uniform
Gendarmes in a relaxed uniform, with soft hats
Gendarmerie guard the Palace of Justice in Paris
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