gendarme
Example Sentences
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“They come to destroy, to injure and to kill police officers and gendarmes,” the minister said Monday when discussing the policing, according to The Associated Press.
From Washington Times
"We'll free them up from these tasks, by handing these tasks to administrative personnel, or through private or contract partnerships ... this will allow us to free up the equivalent of 3,500 police and gendarmes."
From Reuters
More than 50 gendarmes were killed in November in the largest attack on the country’s security forces in recent memory and at least 160 civilians were massacred in the Sahel region in June.
From Seattle Times
More than 50 gendarmes were killed in an attack last month.
From Washington Post
Sebastien Lecornu, the minister for France's overseas territories, said 70 gendarmes had arrived earlier in the day, in addition to two squadrons that were deployed from metropolitan France unannounced, to help clear road blocks.
From Reuters
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