Civil Guard (Spain)
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The Civil Guard is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain. As a national gendarmerie, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the authority of both the
First ever photograph taken of a Guardia Civil, somewhere between 1855 and 1857 in Reinosa, Spain.
Column of Guardias Civiles during the 1934 Asturian Revolution, Brañosera
The Spanish Civil Guard patrol ship Rio Segura moored in Dakar, Senegal, during the counternarcotics and proliferation exercise Saharan Express on March 8, 2014.
Guardia Civil's CASA CN235 surveillance aircraft
Gendarmerie
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A gendarmerie is a military or paramilitary force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population. The term gendarme is derived from the medieval French expression gens d'armes, which transl
Civil Guard (Spain)
…Guard (Spanish: Guardia Civil ) is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain (the other being the National Police Corps). As a national gendarmerie, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the authority of both the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defence…
Members of Italy's Carabinieri on public order duties in Florence
A Turkish Gendarmerie General Command trooper, holding an MP5 sub-machine gun, on guard at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul
Members of the counter-attack unit of the Public Security Service in Lithuania.
1888 pamphlet by George Fraser Black defending Peelian principles