French coast guard

French Coast Guard ; maritime gendarmerie
Lineup	1626/1662
Country	France
Armed forces	French National Gendarmerie
Type	Department
Strength	1,100 military policemen
Insinuation	National gendarmerie
Location	Paris , Cherbourg , Brest , Toulon and the French overseas territories
motto	"Honneur, Patrie, Valeur, Discipline" (Eng. "Honor, Fatherland, Bravery, Discipline")
management
Chief of Staff of the National Gendarmerie	Denis Favier
insignia
Airplane cockade of naval aviators

The French Coast Guard (French Gendarmerie maritime ; GM ) is the maritime component of the French Gendarmerie nationale and is subordinate to the Commander in Chief of the French Navy .

The GM has 1,100 soldiers on duty on over 30 patrol boats . In addition to the coast, inland waterways also belong to the area of responsibility. The tasks of the Gendarmerie Maritime include police work on inland waterways and in the exclusive economic zone of France (EEZ), criminal police work in the shipping sector, protection of French facilities at sea and search and rescue operations .

GM does not have its own aircraft, but relies on Aviation Navale (AVIA) , the French naval aviators .

deployment

Companies in France are stationed as follows:

on the English Channel and the North Sea in Cherbourg 2 companies
Atlantic group in Brest 4 companies
Mediterranean group in Toulon 2 companies
Company from Paris to the Career-on-Seine (under the authority of the state major);
National training center of the GM (CNIGM) in Toulon .

In the French overseas territories :

Guadeloupe : 1 patrol boat
French Guiana : 2 high-speed 20-meter motor boats
Mayotte : 1 patrol boat (20-meter high-speed motorboat)
French Polynesia : 1 patrol boat and a brigade
New Caledonia : 1 high-speed motorboat and 2 brigades
Martinique : 1 patrol craft.