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Gallic Navy Combined Fleet - Gendarmerie

Motto: For Gallia, Honor and Law (Pour la Patrie, l'Honneur et le Droit)

What is Gendarmerie? Simply put, they are the military and only police force of Gallia. The main distinction from other police forces is that Gendarmerie is comprised of only fully enlisted military personnel, being part of the Gallic Navy Combined Fleet ([GN])

History
Royal Gallia was policed by the Gallic Royal Police for centuries - a fully civilian institution. When the Confederacy came, they were renamed and restructured into the Gallic Gendarmerie, but remained (puzzlingly, as the very definition of Gendarmerie is being enlisted in the military) a civilian organization.

Now at last, Gendarmerie is what it is meant to be - a body of fully enlisted soldiers serving as the police force of Gallia, that also fulfils many additional duties as part of the Gallic Navy.

Structure
Although part of the Gallic Navy, the Gendarmerie enjoys a great degree of autonomy from the Main Fleet. It has it's own, distinct ranking structure, and it's highest rank, the Director General of the Gendarmerie (Général d'Armée) Is on par with the rank of the Fleet Admiral of the Main fleet (Amiral) , and both report directly to the Grand Admiral of the Combined Fleet.

Ranks
Deputy (Gendarme Adjoint)
Sergeant (Gendarme Brigadier)
Constable (Gendarme sous Contrat)
Marshal (Maréchal des Logis-Chef)
Major (Major)
Director General of the Gendarmerie (Général d'Armée)

Duties
The radical decision by the Gallic Union was made to have only a fully enlisted military police force. Therefore you will see the Gendarmes perform duties from completely mundane day-to-day activities to high level front line combat duty.

Civilian law enforcement - traffic and cargo control

Whether it's confiscating contraband, directing the flow of traffic, dealing with minor regulation breaches or performing random checks or assisting citizens in various ways, the Gendarmes are there, primarily in Core Gallic worlds.

In time of war and conquest, unlike it's civilian predecessors, the Gendarmerie moves onto the controlled territory to act as military police of the local populace.

Management of Gallic Prisons

Besides the deep dark secretive prisons of the GNI, all prisoners - civilian or otherwise - end up in prisons managed by the Gendarmerie. Whether it comes to prisoner transfer, management of the bases or punitive actions, Gendarmes do it all.

Criminal investigations

Gendarmes are in charge on investigating civilian crimes. From a missing Person's report, tracking down stolen industrial secrets to terrorist attacks.


Security of Gallic Navy installation, landmarks and important Gallic Bases

Although large scale defense from hostile fleets is the job of the Main Fleet, the enlisted Gendarmes are also responsible for day-to-day security of installations, civilian or Military.

The GIG - Gendarmerie Intervention Group(Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie)
Elite police tactical unit of the Gendarmerie. Its missions include counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, protection of government officials, and targeting organized crime.

Direct Combat
Due to their full military training they can be called into large scale Gallic Navy operations when such need arises.

Vessels used on top of standard Gallic Navy issues
Although fully part of the military, the Gendarmes are the only ones that make use of the cheaper and often faster civilian vessels, as unlike the Main Fleet they often engage in non-combat duties where speed and economical movement are more important than the size of armaments.

"Taureau" Gallic Frigate

A staple for prisoner transfer, more than a sufficient offence against petty smugglers.

LM Series "Tournez" Gallic Metal Service Light Miner

A surprisingly popular patrol vessel - light, speedy, economical yet with sufficient armaments to be a threat. Remnant of the past Gallic police iterations that carried over to modern Gendarmerie.

Capital Vessels.
Not used. Only the GIG has full-on armed Gunboats for special missions, and the ageing battleship Saumur serves as local headquarters in Picardy.



Main Targets of Interest
The Gallic Brigands

Brigands are the main targets of the Gendarmes in peacetime. Not only are they the main smuggling force of Gallia, but they also work in the loan shark business and effectively put the indebted and desperate into contractual slavery. They target civilians primarily with piracy and are the stench that follows many Maquisard extremist attacks that engage in opportunistic plundering in the chaos the misguided revolutionaries leave in their wake.

But the worst thing of all that makes them archrivals with the Gendarmes is the fact that they comprise large amounts of former Gallic Royal Police and civilian Confederate Gendarmes who refused to enlist and join the Gendarmes under the Gallic Navy. The fully enlisted Gendarmerie have a lot to prove - especially that the decision to remove civilian police entirely and give them power over the civilian populace in 744 A.G. was justified.

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