Air Gendarmerie

Not to be confused with Air Transport Gendarmerie.

National Gendarmerie
Components

Departmental Gendarmerie Mobile Gendarmerie Republican Guard Maritime Gendarmerie Air Transport Gendarmerie Air Gendarmerie Ordnance Gendarmerie
Security and Intervention Group Intervention Group (GIGN) Parachute Intervention Squadron

The Air Gendarmerie (French: Gendarmerie de l'Air) is the unit of the French Gendarmerie responsible for provost (military police) functions within the French Air Force. It has a strength of 750 and is commanded by a colonel. It is divided into two groupings, each commanded by a lieutenant colonel.

It should not be confused with the larger Air Transport Gendarmerie which provides security for civilian airports and deals with civil aviation accidents.

Law enforcement in France

National Gendarmerie	Air Gendarmerie Air Transport Gendarmerie Departmental Gendarmerie Maritime Gendarmerie Republican Guard Mobile Gendarmerie National Gendarmerie Intervention Group Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic

National Police	Co-ordination Unit of the Fight against Terrorism Central Directorate of Border Police Central Directorate of the Judicial Police Central Directorate of Public Security National Police Intervention Groups Research and Intervention Brigades Banditry Repression Brigades National Police Intervention Force Paris Police Prefecture Bouches-du-Rhône Police Prefecture Protection Service Republican Security Companies Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence

Other	Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes General Directorate for Internal Security Municipal Police Rural Guard/Rural Police

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