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MARITIME GENDARMERIE 1791 - 1970

A specialized military adapted to the maritime world

Positioned for the benefit of the Chief of

- A specialized adapted to the maritime world

- Positioned for the benefit of the French navy Chief of Staff LAYOUT

Historical overview

Organization

Missions

Assets

Units

Personnel / staff

Training

International issues

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

First mention in 1340 during the battle of the Écluse In 1648 Colbert issued a government decree organizing the provosts and archers of the Navy.

“They will ride their horses along the coasts and in the ports of our seas, clear and protect thereof from burglars and pirates, will pursue the naval forces deserters and will prosecute them, with a power of justice control for the execution of the judgements and commissions issued by the Navy.”

In 1970 the French maritime gendarmerie becomes a specialized component of the positioned for the benefit of the French navy Chief of Staff (Reasserted in the 2009 law related to the gendarmerie).

1974: First patrol boats 1986: PATRAS (fast patrol boats)

1991: Transfer of the DG patrol crafts 1997: PCG (Gend. coastal patrol boats)

2003: VCSM (coastal patrol crafts) PGNG (project of new generation patrol boats)

ORGANIZATION

ORGANIZATION

MIOMCTI (Ministry of Interior, overseas, Ministry of Defence local authorities and immigration)

Chief of Defence Staff Directorate General of the National Gendarmerie Chief of Navy Staff

Command Command Maritime of the of the of the of the Maritime Gendarmerie maritime area

Division of Research Squad of

National Instruction Groupings Overseas Units Centre

Command of the maritime gendarmerie (Headquarters) in Houilles

ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

Squad of Paris COMGENDMAR National Headquarters Instruction Centre

Grouping of Division of the English Channel Grouping Grouping of Division of the English Channel Grouping the Mediterranean Research and the North Sea of the Atlantic

Detachment ATHOS Patrol boat GERANUM Patrol boat of Cherbourg Patrol boat ATHOS Patrol boat GERANUM JONQUILLE

Detachment Patrol boat Detachment Patrol boat Company of Company of Toulon of Brest ARAMIS Brest and area

Detachment Company of Le Havre Company of Company of of Toulon Ile Longue

Company of Cherbourg Company of Lorient

COASTAL ORGANIZATION METROPOLIS ONSHORE UNITS

grouping of the English Channel and the North Sea

grouping of the Atlantic

grouping of the Mediterranean METROPOLIS NAVIGATING UNITS

grouping of the English Channel and the North Sea

grouping of the Atlantic

grouping of the Mediterranean OVERSEAS Territorial Brigade

Patrol craft nautical Brigade 3 N miles River Brigade

EFR BSL 6 N miles (Littoral Surveillance Brigade) VSMP PSMP 12 N miles (Port and Maritime Security Platoon)

VCSM Vedettes côtières 20 N miles (Coastal patrol crafts) NAVAL-AIR FORCES PCG Patrouilleurs (Patrol boats) 200 N miles Signal station SEMAPHORE

SEA / LAND Task Forces FORFUSCO LAND / SEA CONTINUUM GM FAG MISSIONS

A WIDE RANGE OF MISSIONS 11 million square kilometers of maritime spaces

Port and maritime security

State Action at Sea Security

Protection

Maritime defense Judicial missions MISSIONS TO THE BENEFIT OF THE FRENCH NAVY

Maritime surveillance and security Protection

Administrative and judicial police Intelligence STATE ACTION AT SEA MISSIONS

Safety of ships Protection of persons and property Maritime security

Protection of the environment Fisheries policing

Surveillance of maritime approaches / G20 - Nice SURVEILLANCE OF MARITIME APPROACHES 519305 hours of general surveillance including 96 % of maritime surveillance 3245 days at sea for 30 navigating units 10231 infrigements

Figures given for 2016 FISHERIES POLICING - Metropolis Navigating units and littoral surveillance brigades 2118 controls onshore 1448 controls at sea 1149 infrigements

Figures given for 2016 FISHERIES POLICING in Guiana 59 infrigement proceedings in fisheries policing by the maritime gendarmerie

VCSM Organabo Mahury

Figures given for 2016 FIGHT AGAINST ILLICIT TRAFFICKING BY SEA Drug trafficking in Guadeloupe FIGHT AGAINST ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BY SEA

Mayotte Island

Arrests of illegal migrants: 1580 by the maritime gendarmerie unit – VCSM Odet

Diversion of Kwassa (dhows): 136 by the maritime gendarmerie unit – VCSM Odet

Figures given for 2016 PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

JUDICIAL POLICE Maritime world – State Action at Sea – Military field

AF 447 Aircraft Crash Maritime piracy Tribal Kat Nice wholesalers- Trafficking

Mirage 2000 aircraft crash Homicide Lorient (56) Costa Concordia

Co-referral : PORT AND MARITIME SECURITY - 3758 ships targeted - 2824 ships escorted - 433 IP security appraisals - 1303 controls on board ships

Figures given for 2016 ASSETS

6 Patrol boats

GERANIUM and VIOLETTE

ATHOS and ARAMIS

JASMIN and JONQUILLE

24 twenty meter-long maritime surveillance coastal patrol crafts

8 twelve meter-long inshore patrol crafts

10 inflatable dinghies Littoral Surveillance Brigades

Inland waterways

UNITS

10 Littoral Surveillance Brigades (BSL)

•- Boulogne sur mer (2009) - Caen (2011) - Cherbourg - Brest - Lorient - Rochefort - Lège-Cap-Ferret (2006) - Port-la-Nouvelle (2004) - Marseille (2010) - Toulon

•- Bretagne north (project)

Naval bases units

Metropolis ● Brest ● Toulon

● Ile Longue (ALFOST)

● Landivisiau ● Lanvéoc-Poulmic BAN - ALAVIA ● Lann-Bihoué ● Hyères

Overseas

● Nouméa ● Papeete BN

Port and Maritime Security Platoons (PSMP)

●- Le Havre (2006)

●- Port de Bouc (2009)

●- Marseille (2010)

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● ●Project: ● ●- Montoir de Bretagne

●- Dunkerque

Military Port and Maritime Security Platoons

● Cherbourg (2013)

● Brest (2013)

● Toulon (2013)

Division of Research

● SR Houilles (command)

● Detachment of Cherbourg

● Detachment of Brest

● Detachment of Toulon

PERSONNEL / STAFF

PERSONNEL / STAFF 1094 soldiers - 243 navigating personnel - 50 % of judicial police officers - 41 sailors from the French navy embarked as ENGINEERS

Skills of the gendarmerie and of the navy

1094 members of personnel

500 Officers

450 Non-Commissioned Officers 400

350 Gendarmes

300 Volunteer gendarme assistants Administrative and Technical 250 476 Support Corps 200 380

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100 149 50 55 34 0

Personnel

onshore embarked

800 70 700 60 600 50 500 40 400 30 300 20 200 10 100 796 216 13 69 0 0

Metropolis Off Metropolis

TRAINING

Training in the maritime gendarmerie

•- in the instruction centres of the gendarmerie, CNFPJ and CNFM in Fontainebleau, CNING Antibes, CNFLIG in Rochefort.

•- in the instruction centres of the navy, Naval Instruction Centre and diving school in St Mandrier, navigation and maneouver instruction centre in Lanvéoc.

•- in the National Maritime Gendarmerie Instruction Centre (CNIGM) in Toulon.

•- in universities.

•- in joint forces instruction centres, CFIAR in Strasbourg, CFD in Bourges.

SKILLS

Common basics for any maritime gendarme (OPJ/APJ/APJA):

✔ Policing at sea 1st level ✔ PSMP : Port and Maritime Security training course ✔ Research units: Judicial policing at sea ✔ Littoral Surveillance Brigades / navigating units: fisheries policing training course

✔ Prerequisites: ✔ Pilot of the gendarmerie boats (PSMP/BSL) ✔ Pilot of the gendarmerie light crafts (all units) Personnel onshore Personnel embarked ➢ Motorcyclist ➢ All-terrain motorcyclist ➢ Navigator ➢ All training courses dealing with Research ➢ Engineer ➢ FREE, FRAD, FRTI, NTECH, RENS, ➢ Electrotechnician TIC,COCRIM, DEFI, ANACRIM, PEG, MIP ➢ Ship's diver ➢ Maritime transport ➢ CSFM engineer ➢ Reconedex ➢ TIS ➢ Dog handlers ➢ Ship pictures ➢ TIS

Skills layout

NTECH 2 COCRIM 1 DEFI 6 OPJ 427 ANACRIM 4 Cynophile 11 TIS 14 RENS 43 28 APJA 123 MIP CFIAR 28 RECONEDEX 65 APJ 392 TIC 6 Plongeur 77 Electro-technicien 40 Motocycliste 42 Mécanicien 66 Navigateur 121 PEG 265 Police en mer 599

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Duration of the training courses (in month)

40

35

30

25 Chef ENERG Engineering officer 20 BS Advanced training certificate 36 4 15 BAT Certificate of technical competency

10 8 14 5 7 6

0 OPJ Chef de quart Mécanicien BAT ELEC

Judicial police officer Officer of the Deck Engineer Electrician

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

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• Expert officer, • International operations in the Mediterranean, • Assessment missions, audit...

Services provided these last three years:

• Appraisal

European Union, Tunisia, Jordan, Algerie, the Baltic States, Togo, Benin

• Conference - presentation

Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, Katar, Guinea-Conakry

• Training courses (in situ or in the CNIGM)

Spain, Yemen, Tunisia, South Africa

• Regional cooperation

Belgium, Spain, Great-Britain Activity of the Maritime Gendarmerie in 2016

Hours of general surveillance: 519305 including 96% of maritime surveillance

Days at sea: 3 245

Number of identifications: 579721

FPR : 552233 / FVV : 10655 / SHIPS : 15685 / MOTOR OF SHIPS : 1148

Number of infrigements:

- Criminal offences : 12

- Nonindictable offences : 3216

- Tickets, fines : 7003

ISSUES AT STAKE FOR THE FUTURE

- Improving the land/sea & sea/land coordination;

- Renewing the patrol boats;

Carrying out the Port and Maritime Security measures.

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