French coast guard
French Coast Guard |
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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") |
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Chief of Staff of the National Gendarmerie | Denis Favier |
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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.