Gendarmerie

Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea on Thursday said the Romanian Gendarmerie have over the past years proved to be a modern organisation able to secure Romanians the exercise of their fundamental rights and freedoms in good faith.

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President Klaus Iohannis told Interior Ministry's employees upon their annual report on Monday he would plead for decent wages and working conditions for law enforcers.

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New boss cleans the Gendarmerie of Dikic's men

Goran Dragovic, chief of Serbian Counter-Terrorist unit, will be new commander of Serbian Gendarmery.

Dragovic will take the place of Milenko Bozovic, who will be reassigned to position of Border police Directorate.

Captain Silviu Farcas with the Brasov County Gendarmes Inspectorate at the end of this week will go to the Republic of Haiti, to participate in the United Nations Stabilization Mission, this being the first time when a representative of the Romanian Gendarmerie conducts an international mission in this country.

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Gendarmerie gets new commander - unofficial

BELGRADE -- B92 has unofficially learned that the new commander of the MUP Gendarmerie (Zandarmerija) will be Goran Dragovic.

Dragovic until now served as commander of MUP's Counter-Terrorist Unit (PTJ).

BELGRADE - The Military Security Agency (VBA) has provided the initial documents about the incident between the Gendarmerie and the military police in Belgrade in September last year and that is a step in the right direction, Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic has posted on his Twitter account.

A court in Turkey's northwestern province of Kocaeli has released pending trial three suspects who were questioned for stealing two English thoroughbred horses, worth around 100,000 Turkish Liras each, to use for pulling carriages.

The seized horses were handed back to the owners under the watch of the local gendarmerie.

Serbia's High Prosecution Office on Monday brought charges against eight members of the Gendarmerie special police unit, for attacking an army officers in the performance of theirduties, abuse and torture and abuse of office.

Gendarmes indicted over incident involving PM's brother

BELGRADE -- The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade has issued an indictment against eight members of the MUP Gendarmerie (Zanadarmerija) unit.

They are accused of attacking Andrej Vucic, the brother of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, and Predrag Mali, the brother of Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali.

Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala has attempted to justify the government's controversial homeland security bill by referring to the EU's 2014 Progress Report on Turkey, which stated that "reforms are needed to improve civilian scrutiny of the military, the police, the gendarmerie and the intelligence services."