Gendarmerie
Gendarmerie noun - French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively.
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Police and gendarmerie are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Police" instead a noun "Gendarmerie".
Police
Police noun - The department of government that keeps order, fights crime, and enforces statutes.
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- This is because they have to deal with a number of crimes that are sometimes done by the Mafia, duties important enough that when they were disbanded their job (and almost all their members) was taken over by the Carabinieri, the highest-ranking gendarmerie/police force of Italy.
Source: Almighty Janitor -
The Carabinieri (military police and gendarmerie) are despised by the rest of the armed forces, with a contempt second only to the one reserved for the military cooks (Cordon Bleugh Chefs by Italian standards).
Source: Interservice Rivalry - In countries that have a gendarmerie (regular soldiers trained as cops who enforce the law among the civilian population) there is often a rivalry between the gendarmerie and the local police.
Source: Jurisdiction Friction
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