• Military Menu                       

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Industry
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• WMD
• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Romanian Gendarmerie - The Great War

The 1st World War has given Romania the chance to use all political and military means to restore the ancient borders. The Romanian Gendarmerie, as component of the National Military System, totally engaged to serve the National Flag and the national interests. From the multitude of actions carried out in the 1916 Campaign, we mention the actions for ensuring the police of the front and also administrative organizing of the territories taken of the hand of Hungarians. The importance of organizing the gendarmes' stations in freed towns (Bifilar, Barsta, Satu-Lung, Tarlungeni, Sfantu Gheorghe, Covasna, Miercurea Ciuc) is revealed by Prahova Gendarmes Company Commander, in the telegram sent to General Inspector of Gendarmerie: " Today, for the first time and for ever, the Romanian Gendarmerie replace the Hungarian Gendarmerie, on the beloved territory of Transylvania ".

The following course of events was unfavorable for the Romanian Army, which, under the enemy' s pressure had to withdraw, giving a part of the national territory, until the front was stabilized in South Moldova.

During withdrawing the gendarmes participated in combat operations and strengthened the police of the front, the communications, the necessary order measures for military convoys movement, during the evacuations of the administration, of some objectives, and the evacuation of the population, which took refuge in Moldavia .

At the beginning of the year 1917, the Gendarmerie is reorganized in the same time with the army. At the Army Corps and Joint Brigades' headquarters a detachment of gendarmes has been constituted. This detachment was lead by an infantry commanding officer and has fewer men than before. The Prahova Gendarmes Detachment has been renamed: "The Mobile Police Detachment of Great General HQ". Other gendarmerie subunits have been, also, allocated to guard services, for the infrastructure assets, fortifications and some to Moldavia main cities, as reinforcements.

In July the 1st 1918 the Army was demobilized and the gendarmes organize check-points for the demobilized soldiers, posts, patrols and detachments to observe their behavior and ensure a peaceful demobilization.

Romanian Gendarmerie has contributed to the 2 nd mobilization declared in 1918 in the same time, organizing new services and ensuring order in the country. The Army engages itself again in the operations to free the entire national territory and the Gendarmerie starts restoring peace and order, creating police companies in the freed districts.

The creation of the Great Romania, by unifying all the historical regions, inaugurated in our society's life a large process of remodeling the antebellum structures, including those designated to maintain and defend internal order.

At 23 rd of April 1929, the Parliament set the bases of a new modern and complete law of Rural Gendarmerie. In the same year The Rural Gendarmerie Status is promulgated by under aged King Mihai I. This status granted stability, promotion, salaries and other wages, retirement pensions, conditions for marriage, rewards, etc.