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Sep 16, 2026
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Paramilitary forces do not exist in the United Kingdom, where there are provisions for the army to act in support of the civil power, or in the United States, where the part-time soldiers of each state's National Guard can be called out instead, but such forces are extensively employed in many other countries.
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In France, for example, there is a civilian police force, the Police Nationale, but there is also a paramilitary force, the Gendarmerie.
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that normally acts as the rural police.
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The gendarmerie is controlled by the Ministry of Defense, and its officers are integrated in the ranks of the armed forces.
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It numbers about 13,500, trained and equipped like the mobile units of the Gendarmerie, minus the armored cars.
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The CRS is staffed with personnel who have been carefully screened politically, and it is headed by an assistant director of the Ministry of the Interior.
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The Police Nationale also has an intelligence service that concentrates on the more sophisticated forms of crime, and a counterintelligence service that also carries out political work and the surveillance of aliens.
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Both intelligence organizations operate all over France.
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This has enabled us to study their infiltration in terms that are generally applicable.
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Police forces, however, are shaped by local social and political conditions and are therefore very diverse.
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Police officers can be armed very heavily or not at all.
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They can be concentrated in mobile and hard-hitting units or dispersed in small groups.
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They can be controlled by the Ministry of Defense and thus have a military training and outlook, or by the local community and be extremely civilian-minded.
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Though their structure is so diverse, police forces resemble each other in the purposes they serve.
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The prevention and detection of crime, and the maintenance of public order, which is the task of separate paramilitary forces in some countries where there are no such forces, is secured by concentrating and deploying ordinary police taken from their other work.
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Police work also includes an intelligent element.