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Originally Posted by Jubal Early

police officers and soldiers are two very different things. one enforces the law, the other goes to war.

What about the cases where soldiers are ALSO in charge of enforcing the (civilian) law?

A gendarmerie or gendarmery (pronounced /dʒɛnˈdɑrməriː/, or /ˌʒɑndɑrməˈriː/ after the French) is a military body charged with police duties among civilian populations

List of modern gendarmeries

* Algeria: Gendarmerie Nationale (El Dark El Watani)
* Argentina: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina
* Belarus:OMON and Internal Troops
* Benin: Gendarmerie
* Bhutan: Royal Bhutan Police
* Brazil: Polícia Militar and Força Nacional de Segurança
* Bulgaria: Zhandarmeriya (Жандармерия)
* Burkina Faso: Gendarmerie
* Cambodia : The Gendarmerie, or "Military Police", known as the Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia is a paramilitary unit with about 7,000 soldiers deployed in all provinces. It is headquartered in Phnom Penh. The unit's chain of command is through the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces High Command. The Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia is deployed in every province and cities to keep the law in orders. Military police in Cambodia play an important role in Cambodia society which keep law and orders in cities like the National Police.
* Cameroon: Gendarmerie
* Canada: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (civilian status)
* Central African Republic: Gendarmerie
* Chad: Gendarmerie
* Chile: The Carabiniers of Chile
* China: People's Armed Police
* Colombia: Colombian National Police especially the Cuerpo de Carabineros aka "EMCAR" Escuadrones móviles de carabineros - Caribiners Mobile squadrons
* Comoros: Gendarmerie
* Costa Rica: Fuerza Pública
* Congo: Gendarmerie
* Djibouti: Gendarmerie
* Egypt: Central Security Forces
* France: Gendarmerie Nationale
* Gabon: Gendarmerie
* Germany: There are two levels of gendarmerie in Germany:
o At the Federal level there are the German Federal Police and the Alert Police are the gendarmes.
o At the State level there are the Landespolizei and the state Alert Police. Some states call their Schutzpolizei gendarmerie.
* Guinea: Gendarmerie
* Hungary: Rendészeti Biztonsági Szolgálat
* Iran had a gendermerie, (which is forgotten in the map above).
* Iraq: National Police (not to be confused with civilian Iraqi Police Service, although at present both are highly militarised)
* Israel: Israel Border Police (Mishmar HaGvul)
* Italy:
o Carabinieri (Carabiniers) and
o Guardia di Finanza (limited role)
* Ivory Coast: Gendarmerie
* Lebanon: Gendarmerie Libanaise (Amen el Dakhli also known as El Darak)
* Madagascar: Gendarmerie
* Mali: Gendarmerie
* Mauritania: Gendarmerie
* Mexico: Policia Federal Preventiva (PFP) (civilian status, but largely composed of military personnel transferred en masse from the Mexican army's 3rd Military Police Brigade)
* Moldova: Trupele de Carabinieri
* Monaco: Carabiniers
* Morocco: Gendarmerie Royale
* Netherlands: Koninklijke Marechaussee
* Niger: National Police of Niger, which includes the National Gendarmerie and the Forces nigerienne d'internale securite- FNIS.
* Pakistan: Pakistan Rangers, Frontier Corps, and Mehran Force
* Poland: Żandarmeria Wojskowa
* Portugal: Guarda Nacional Republicana
* Romania: Jandarmeria Română
* Russia: Internal Troops and OMON
* Rwanda: Gendarmerie
* San Marino: Gendarmeria and Guardia di Rocca
* Senegal: Gendarmerie
* Serbia: Žandarmerija (Жандармерија) (1860–1945; reformed 2001)
* Spain: Guardia Civil
* Switzerland: There are two levels of Gendarmerie in Switzerland:
o The Federal level are the Border Guard Corps and Federal Office of Police who could be regarded as gendarmeries for the Swiss Confederation.
o The cantonal police of the French-speaking cantons are called Gendarmerie, but are in fact civilian police.
* Togo: Gendarmerie
* Turkey: Jandarma
* Ukraine: Internal troops
* United States of America: the State Police
* Vatican City: Corpo della Gendarmeria dello Stato della Città del Vaticano

Plus

* European Gendarmerie Force - Formed by five members of the European Union: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, Its purpose was the creation of a European intervention force, which would have militarised police (aka a gendarmerie) functions and be specialized in crisis management. More countries will be allowed to join in the future.

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