Gendarmerie
A gendarmerie (French) is a military body charged with general police duties. The members of such a body are gendarmes. Many countries that were once under Napoleonic influence have a gendarmerie (or used to have one: both the Belgian and the Austrian gendarmerie have merged with the police in 2001 and 2005, respectively). It is also used as a generic term for any similar force. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is named in French Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC).
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French - Military - Police - Gendarme - Napoleon - Belgian - Austria - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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The usual gendarmerie symbol is a flaming grenade.
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