The unit also specializes in CBRN defense.
Criminal investigations are run under the supervision of prosecutors or investigating magistrates. The military policing responsibilities of the Marshal of France were delegated to the Marshal's provost, whose force was known as the Marshalcy because its authority ultimately derived from the Marshal.
After conducting a controversial final series of six nuclear tests on Mururoa in the South Pacific, the French signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996. Under Napoléon, the numbers and responsibilities of the gendarmerie, renamed gendarmerie impériale, were significantly expanded. Its personnel remained unchanged, and the functions of the force remained much as before. [4] According to Credit Suisse, the French Armed Forces are ranked as the world's sixth-most powerful military. The Provost Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie prévôtale), created in 2013, is the military police of the French Army deployed outside metropolitan France. C'est la raison pour laquelle la Gendarmerie Nationale recrute 20 réservistes. The current Director-General is Général Christian Rodriguez who took office on November 1, 2019. France has also signed and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. In 1901, the École des officiers de la gendarmerie nationale was established to train its officers. Nuclear ordnance security — security force for the French nuclear arsenal directly subordinated to the Minister of Defence. As a result, the Maréchaussée Royale was not disbanded but simply renamed as the gendarmerie nationale (Law of 16 February 1791). Under the Third Republic the ratio of foot to mounted gendarmes was increased and the numbers directly incorporated in the French Army with a military police role reduced.[6]. [4] Internal political upheaval eventually led to 23 years of nearly continuous conflict in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Research units, who conduct criminal investigations when their difficulty exceeds the abilities of the territorial units. Région de Marseille, France. Despite their connection with the king, they were therefore perceived as a force favouring the reforms of the French National Assembly. Honour and security services for the highest national personalities and important foreign guests; Support of other law enforcement forces (with intervention groups, or horseback patrols); Staffing horseback patrol stations, particularly for the forests of the. The Allies, including the government in exile's Free French Forces and later a liberated French nation, eventually emerged victorious over the Axis powers. Apart from the three main service branches, the French Armed Forces also includes a fourth paramilitary branch called the National Gendarmerie. In May 2014, high ranking defence chiefs of the French Armed Forces threatened to resign if the defence budget received further cuts on top of those already announced in the 2013 White Paper. Many of its missions are classified, and members are not allowed to be publicly photographed. Key elements of the restructuring include: reducing personnel, bases and headquarters, and rationalisation of equipment and the armaments industry. Consolation came in the form of dominance in Europe and the American Revolutionary War, where extensive French aid in the form of money and arms, and the direct participation of its army and navy led to America's independence. White aiguillettes were a distinguishing feature. Only 25,000 men and women were signed up for reserve engagements (E.S.R.).
Maintaining law and order in public gatherings and demonstrations, including crowd control and other security activities; Security of airports, civil nuclear sites and military installations. Five battles are registered on the flag of the Gendarmerie: National Gendarmerie also took part in the Algerian War from 1954 to 1962 (more than 500 KIA). Under King Francis I (r. 1515–1547), the Maréchaussée was merged with the Constabulary. The Overseas Gendarmerie — in charge of French overseas departments and territories, bringing together the different gendarmerie branches under unified commands in the respective overseas territories. The 103,481 military personnel of the National Gendarmerie is divided into:[13], The Gendarmerie nationale's Prospective Centre (CPGN), which was created in 1998 by an ordinance of the Minister for Defence, is one of the gendarmerie's answers to officials' willingness to modernise the State.
Under the direct authority of the general director of the gendarmerie, it is located in Penthièvre barracks on avenue Delcassé in Paris and managed by Mr Frédéric LENICA, (assisted by a general secretary, Colonel LAPPRAND) "maître des requêtes" in the Conseil d'Etat.[15].