Gendarmerie

Bucharest, Jan 12 /Agerpres/ - Fourteen Romanian gendarmes, who participated for almost 6 months in the NATO mission to advise Afghan public order and security forces, returned home on Sunday.

A drone launched by the Turkish police to fly over Istanbul's Taksim Square on New Year's Eve for security purposes was shot down by the Turkish gendarmerie forces on Dec. 31. 

"We were not informed about the [drone] flight. We shot it down because we considered it a threat," a gendarmerie officer told police officials.  

According to RTS, the strong forces of the Gendarmerie are deployed in the village district of Malca and the final "tightening of the ring around the abductor" is being performed.
Last night, in the late evening, police also searched the village of Jasenovik, however, that search did not yield a result.

The US Coast Guard is seeking a 7-person touring helicopter under "extreme" weather conditions, AFP reports.

Coast Guard crews are searching for a helicopter that failed to return from a tour off Kauai's Napali coast in Hawaii late Thursday

Monika's disappearance was reported as early as Friday afternoon, but despite efforts by police and locals, she has not been found yet.

Members of the police and gendarmerie units are intensively searching the grounds.
According to unofficial information, the abducted girl is alive and is currently with the suspect, TV Prva has learned.
Earlier today, police and a gendarmerie surrounded the village of Oresac on suspicion that the suspect was hiding there.

Nearly 1,924 liters of bootleg alcohol was seized by police on Dec. 24, according to security sources.

In Çanakkale, teams of provincial gendarmerie command conducted operations in addresses previously set in Ezine district said a security source on condition of anonymity.

The operation seized 688 liters of bootleg alcohol in bottles bearing various brands, the source added.

Five people were detained on October 17 in a joint investigation of the Special Prosecutor's Office, the State Attorney's Office and the Interior Ministry in Plovdiv, with the assistance of the Gendarmerie Directorate, the Interior Ministry said.

The General Inspectorate of the Romanian Gendarmerie started on Monday, at the National Cryogenic and Isotopic Technology Research and Development Institute (ICSI) of Ramnic, Valcea County, a wide-encompassing exercise training gendarmes and other departments of the Interior Ministry in emergency interventions at nuclear facilities.

A Turkish drug detection dog retired on Sept. 12 after working a decade for gendarmerie forces in the capital Ankara.