French Gendarmerie Air Force

[Vergennes]

The air component of the French National Gendarmerie is operating from 29 bases of which 23 are in mainland France and 6 in overseas territories.
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Its main missions are the surveillance of the territories,enforce public order,fight against criminality and terrorism,support forces on the ground in their daily missions. The control of illegal weapons flows,drugs,controlling immigration and to also operate/intervene in hostile zones and areas with difficult access. (Mountains,seas...)
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Its air component has carried out on average 19K flying hours per years.
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Its fleet are composed of x56 helicopters equipped with state of the art technology. (thermal cameras,modern live coverage devices,long range headlights...)

The fleet's manned by 146 pilots.

x26 Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil. (surveillance/intervention)

x15 Eurocopter EC135 (surveillance/intervention)

x15 (+1 on order) Eurocopter EC145 (rescue/intervention)

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The French Air Force and the Army can actually put helicopters at the disposal of police forces.
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The force is in the process of acquiring 23 drones that will be mainly used for observation missions and manned according to military regulations.

The force is actually already using small drones,their use are in expension.

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Contrary to the Gendarmerie,the French National Police doesn't have an helicopter fleet,it still can ask the Gendarmerie to provide helicopter support if needed. (1000 flying hours are provided each years to the National Police)

So,how are police helicopter fleets around the world ? @waz @Indus Pakistan @Wolfhunter @RescueRanger @Zarvan @Georg @anant_s @UKBengali @Cell_DbZ

 

[Georg]

in Germany it is a little bit more complicated... Germany is other than France decentralized..

There is the
Bundespolizei (Police of Germany)
and the much more important and larger
Landespolizei (federal state Police)

The Bundespolizei runs a fleet of 87 helicopter
Eurocopter EC-120 6 for pilot training
Eurocopter EC-135 42 utility
Eurocopter EC-155B 15 transport (5more on order)
Eurocopter Super Puma 19 transport (3 more on order)
Bell 212 5 rescue (on the way to get replaced by EC 155B)

Landespolizei
the number of helicopter is different between each state...
larger state like Baden-Württemberg Bayern Hessen or NRW have between 15 to 20 each, the state of Hessen even run a wing aircraft fleet of Vulcanair P68 Observer next to the EC 145, city states like Hamburg or Berlin have far less.

this MBB getting phased out and replaced by Airbus H-145 since 2016

All together i estimate that the Police in Germany runs all federal state and state police together a fleet of 130-150 helicopter...

 

[anant_s]

Pretty impressive fleet @Vergennes
Its good that use of newer technology allows better policing and optimization of resource (mainly man-power) for tackling increased workload.
also any idea if Drones are being deployed for surveillance?

 

[Mucahit]

@Vergennes where can we find more information about French Gendarme and how does it differ from the Turkish one?

 

[Vergennes]

@Vergennes where can we find more information about French Gendarme and how does it differ from the Turkish one?

I posted this thread nearly one year ago,maybe it would help you to know more about the French Gendarmerie ;

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/french-national-gendarmerie.529239/

I don't know much about the Turkish one,you should tell us if there are big or small differences between the two forces. @T-123456 @xenon54 @kartal1

 

[T-123456]

I posted this thread nearly one year ago,maybe it would help you to know more about the French Gendarmerie ;

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/french-national-gendarmerie.529239/

I don't know much about the Turkish one,you should tell us if there are big or small differences between the two forces. @T-123456 @xenon54 @kartal1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie_General_Command
The info is a bit outdated but it gives you a view on the set up,structure,tasks etc.


http://www.jandarma.gov.tr/
Official website.

 

[Vergennes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie_General_Command
The info is a bit outdated but it gives you a view on the set up,structure,tasks etc.


http://www.jandarma.gov.tr/
Official website.

Both forces are pretty similar in terms of organization,missions etc. Have yet to see major differences.

 

[T-123456]

Both forces are pretty similar in terms of organization,missions etc. Have yet to see major differences.

The names say enough,i think Jandarma comes from Gendarmarie.

 

[Vergennes]

The names say enough,i think Jandarma comes from Gendarmarie.

You would find interesting to note that before the revolution,this force was called the "Maréchaussée". (A term that's still used in the Netherlands)

Most (if not all) Gendarmeries of the world either modeled or inspired their forces from the French one. More recently,the French Gendarmerie heavily contributed to the creation of such a force in Mexico.

 

[xenon54 out]

I posted this thread nearly one year ago,maybe it would help you to know more about the French Gendarmerie ;

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/french-national-gendarmerie.529239/

I don't know much about the Turkish one,you should tell us if there are big or small differences between the two forces. @T-123456 @xenon54 @kartal1

Turkish gendarmerie is modeled after French exsample (just as civil rights) as far as i know, i dont know much about the differences today though.

@Neptune had a good post about it a while ago.

Edit: see post below.

 

[kartal1]

I posted this thread nearly one year ago,maybe it would help you to know more about the French Gendarmerie ;

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/french-national-gendarmerie.529239/

I don't know much about the Turkish one,you should tell us if there are big or small differences between the two forces. @T-123456 @xenon54 @kartal1

Well I wouldn't be able to put it better than our dear member @Neptune so I will quote him

It is worth mentioning that structurally and on practice, the Turkish Gendarmerie (JGK) is different than many gendarmerie forces in Europe which it was modeled after at late Ottoman period. Today this difference is still visible. At first, I must mention that (hence idk the case in Pakistan), security institutions in Turkey, excluding the armed forces, is highly centralized. Therefore JGK is the primary national law enforcement agency in the country's administrative regions outside the metropolitan areas (basically towns, villages and borderlines). What is not known by non-Turkish readers is that during the initial years of the Republic till late 1990s, JGK was the mother, teacher, doctor and everything of the villages and towns in Turkey through the initiative taken by the officers. When someone was sick at winter, at a mountainous village, with the request of local gendarmerie officer, JGK dispatches air evacuation for the sick civilian to a city hospital when the health sector was not developed; or when education on far villages was rough and female children were often not sent to school by their families one or two decades ago, the commanding officer of the local Gendarmerie post takes a platoon and a teacher then kicks in the house and makes sure that small children regardless of gender and ethnicity were provided their very own right of compulsory education as stated by the Constitution. The point is, apart from being a huge nightmare for PKK, Gendarmerie not only brought the reforms to the unreachable points of the country, it also maintained it till today and so on. Basically where there is Gendarmerie, there is the State.

Its functions are:
- Military Duties (Counter-terrorism; deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia; and border security).
During the counter-terrorism missions the following units are employed: Gendarmerie Special Operations and Public Order Command (JÖAK), Gendarmerie Special Operations (JÖH), Gendarmerie Commando Battalions stationed at southeastern Turkey, Gendarmerie Public Order Corps headquartered in far eastern Turkey, Hakkari Gendarmerie Mountain and Commando Brigade, and the Provincial Gendarmerie Commando Regiments. These units, Land Forces Commando units and the National Police's own special operations unit PÖH all operate under the command and control of the Gendarmerie 23rd Border Division which oversees the counter-terrorism operations throughout southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq.

- Law Enforcement Duties (in conjunction with its law and the Law on the Duties and Powers of the Turkish National Police)
- Other Duties (Security of courts and prisons)

The Gendarmerie air fleet consists of the following:

26x S-70 Black Hawk

18x Mi 17

13x AB 205

At least 4x T129 Atak

18x Bayraktar UAV/UCAV

5x ANKA A/B UAV/UCAV

Unknown number of Cessna Citation C608

Unknown number of Beechcraft King Air 350ISR

 

[vostok]

You would find interesting to note that before the revolution,this force was called the "Maréchaussée". (A term that's still used in the Netherlands)

Before Socialist revolution of 1917 Russian political police was called "Gendarmerie".