gendarmes

The averagely ignorant foreigner, if he thinks about such matters at all, thinks of all French law officers as "gendarmes," whereas in fact the gendarmes are the rural constabulary, who operate outside the metropolitan districts which have their own police forces, whose officers are correctly called agents.

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

We begin the three-hour drive to Farchana with Claude, a retired Canadian marine in charge of overseeing the "gendarmes" - Chadians hired to provide security for refugee camps.

VQR 2010

Major Smedley Butler was storming through the doors of the legislative hall, leading squads of gendarmes from the national police force that he had organized to maintain martial rule on the island.

Devil Dog David Talbot 2010

The losers called the gendarmes, and Mr. Smith spent the night in the drunk tank.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Rare (Partial) Victory in Second Amendment Case: 2009

Villagers "stopped the mercenary, tied him up and called the gendarmes, who responded quickly," Maturafi said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

The one thing I omitted -- and I don't see how I missed it -- was to call the gendarmes there at Modane and denounce you to them.

The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

We have brought down a dozen gendarmes, that is all.

Mauprat George Sand 1840

Amadou Diagne Niang, a resident of Podor who is the local correspondent for Le Soleil, the state-owned newspaper, said the paramilitary police, known as the gendarmes, ran out of tear gas.

Breaking News: CBS News 2012

The gendarmes were the political branch of the military police.

Chinalyst - China blogs in English blacksmith 2010

The gendarmes were the political branch of the military police.

Chinalyst - China blogs in English blacksmith 2010