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Originally Posted by CDAT
Some thoughts, as an American I am trying to figure out where in our system these would fit. Looking up the word Gendarmerie and I came up with "A gendarmerie or gendarmery is a military component with jurisdiction in civil law enforcement."
For the military you have Active, Reserve, and Guard (Army and Air Force only) except for the Guard they can not by law be used in a Civilian Law Enforcement capacity. You do have your Military Police (go by different names depending on the branch) but they as far as I know do not have police powers off base unless dealing with military.
For law enforcement we have federal, state, and local (includes city and county). Al tho not Law Enforcement or Military we also have security that can in some cases kind of fit into an almost Law Enforcement role (some times does fit into). Some federal security officers have no police powers but are equipped as well as the military.
So my best guess unless I am missing something would be here in the US the closest would be things like NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) were they are federal civilian police working inside of the military, so they have authority both on the civil and military sides.
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We don't have large paramilitary groups like Guardia Civil or the Gendarmes, the exception is the Coast Guard.