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JANDARMERIA ROMÂNĂ No. 5 / 2017 Member of ELEMENT Network summary GENDARMERIE TODAY 2. "Gendarmerie, we bow" Captain Gheorghe ENE 8. 100% CT Captain Gheorghe ENE GENDARMERIE AND PUBLIC ORDER CULTURE 12. Stability operations, the solution against threats Ernest J. HEROLD 16. NATO Stability Policing Centre of Excellence, a key role for the Romanian Gendarmerie Colonel Andrea PARIS 18. A new concept in the field of security Colonel Mihai CRISTIAN GENDARMERIE IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT 22. Security, a challenge of this millennium Captain Casandra ILIE 25. Romanian Gendarmes abroad... Captain Casandra ILIE 30. European Union Police Services Training II Antonio ANAYA LORITE EDUCATION, TRADITIONS AND MILITARY HISTORY 32. History file Captain Casandra ILIE JANDARMERIA ROMÂNĂ Magazine published by the General Inspectorate of Romanian Gendarmerie EDITORIAL OFFICE - founded on the 15th of December 1922 Lieutenant-colonel Sorin DESPINA entitled ”Gendarmerie Magazine” - Captain Casandra ILIE General Inspectorate of Romanian Gendarmerie Captain Gheorghe ENE Magazine “Romanian Gendarmerie” NCO Cristian DUMITRU ISSN-L 1843 - 388X NCO Nicoleta SANDU Address: Strada Jandarmeriei nr. 9-11, Sector 1, Bucureşti NCO Florian GRIGORE Telephone: 0040 21 409.65.01 Fax: 0040 21 319.80.52 E-mail: [email protected] Translation by: Captain Mihaela IVANOVICI (S.A.O.J.R.M.V.), The authors are fully responsible for the opinions/views Major Liliana RUSU (S.M.S.J. Fălticeni) expressed in this magazine. editorial Together We talk more and more about national and international security. Until lately, the risks and vulnerabilities were related to the geographical position and the size of the neighboring states. In the new era of globalization, the states, as actors of granting security, are facing new challenges, which are determined by the economic, political, financial, social relations and even by image factors. In a world of great conflicts, the poverty, organized crime, lack of food, access to different resources, migration are the main factors that influence citizens’ life on a daily basis. Under these circumstances, the public order forces must foresee the intercourses between the international threats and the internal evolutional processes and to expand their cooperation, including common use of their own capacities. I sincerely hope that the countries and the international bodies, to whom we belong to, will always find a way to solve peacefully the present and future conflicts. There could be a lot to say about the international organizations in which Romania, through the Romanian Gendarmerie, takes part, about the causes of today’s conflicts or international security’s threats, but I underline only the need to learn how to cooperate, to accept one another, with good and bad sides, as individuals, nations or regional and international organizations. Only through cooperation, mutual understanding and acceptance, the world we live in can survive and prosper. Moreover, the institutions must accept an enhanced pro-active participation of the civil society in the decision making process, in order to respond more adequate to the possible situations that can easily evolve into riots, affecting the public order and safety. When we succeed to develop a capacity truly capable to react to the future threats, to fight against terrorism and to ensure the public order, only then we could say that we achieved to bring back our freedom. This freedom will contribute to the development of good governance and its results of success will be in the benefit of us all! e Brigadier-General Marin ANDREIANA JUNE 2017 - ROMANIAN GENDARMERIE 1 GENDARMERIE TODAY ”Gendarmerie, we bow” Most of the time, they know when they go on mission but do not know when they're back. No mission resembles the other. It sometimes happens to leave the base to ensure public order at a protest, then to be announced that a team needs to support another in order to execute a warrant or a search warrant. Then perhaps they need to go ensuring public order at another protest and, in the next second, to intervene for its restoration or even maintaining public order, working side by side with other structures. So monotony cannot find its place in the missions of our colleagues. Between two identical missions to ensure public order there are always other situations, other people. The gendarmes come to the unit as in any other day, regardless of the activities they are to perform. 2 ROMANIAN GENDARMERIE - JUNE 2017 GENDARMERIE TODAY ”Gendarmerie, we Captain Gheorghe ENE bow” They get all the equipment, and this does not just involve the baton, the helmet, the protective mask, but also the necessary documents for the mission. The officer determines how they are assigned on that day, then they follow a briefing about the missions they have to accomplish. They go in the field, in the street. #The risks are high and there is no rule and not everything ends like in the movies. Sometimes things are not so good for people who wear the uniform. Citizens, most of them, have figured out who the gendarmes are and what’s their role in the society. The missions aren’t so easy, but they are always present, no matter what. And they often risk their lives, though they are also people with family and children... JUNE 2017- ROMANIAN GENDARMERIE 3 GENDARMERIE TODAY Perhaps this plea that I support for my gendarmerie colleagues is more or less subjective, but reality equalizes this collegial subjectivism and comes to reinforce what I said earlier. The facts, however, cling to objectivity. The best example that comes to mind now is that of the wounded gendarme during the protests in Victory Square. Some hooligans wanted to infiltrate among the peaceful protesters and ruin the good course of the demonstration, turning it into a street fight. This has not happened, of course. It would not have been the first time the gendarmes were confronted with such situations. And they managed! They isolated the turbulent ones and protected the people who had gone to the street in a civilized way. Yes! But what’s the price for all this? Three gendarmes were injured. One of them, in serious condition. He lost his ability to see with one eye again! He was there to protect the people. Newspapers, television, facebook are feeling sorry for him and they are being supportive for the gendarmes in those moments. Everywhere there are titles such as "The gendarme wounded in Victory Square’s protests was lifely injured. A man forever mutilated." A brick in his eye was fatal. On Facebook, the ophthalmologist Monica Pop said that "the young gendarme seriously injured with a brick in the eye in Victory Square, unfortunately remained with an eye condition: he still has about 25 percent of the normal sight. It’s an aggression with serious and irreversible consequences! Sacrifice! A man who has been mutilated by some lunatics!" Reality or news topic? Breaking news? Social empathy? Who cares? The gendarme who lost his sight certaintly did not. He will be a news subject for a month, two, three, then he will be forgotten. Perhaps no one will remember him. Will he be rewarded? Who knows? And what reward could exist that would ever compensate for his health? None! Whatever it is, things are irreparable! He is a man who is mutilated not only physically, but also mentally, spiritually. He is a man who will never be the same again! Sometimes the natural course of things can be interrupted by... a brick that is moving in Photos: Răzvan BĂLTĂREŢU a slow-motion to a man, hitting a family. 4 ROMANIAN GENDARMERIE - JUNE 2017 GENDARMERIE TODAY #11 years... Her name is Marilena Şoavă and she is an N.C.O at the Bucharest Gendarmerie General Directorate. Her work has been in the field of public order since the beginning, nearly 11 years since he had fulfilled her dream of becoming a gendarme. Asked why she wanted to wear the military uniform, Marilena replied that the Gendarmerie had certain values, and "dignity is the supreme value that attracted her to this institution. The uniform must always be worn with dignity." #Protest in Victoria Square This time, the protesters were among each The agitators had serious thoughts! Molotov social categories, regardless of age. Unlike other cocktails and knives were seized. The gendarmes situations, when people who participated at the succeeded in creating a cordon of order and protests belonged to a certain category of groups separating the peaceful people from violent (for example, only supporters organizing protests groups. People in the square booed! They did not on different themes or retirees who pleaded for agree with the violent actions of the agitators! their rights), this time, things were different. Other colleagues, since the intervention, have "There were people who wanted to communicate removed the violent groups from the square that with us, they did not come in order to be violent, have withdrawn on Lascăr Catargiu Boulevard but on the contrary, they were civilized. And they and Victoria Street Way. An advertising stand were really open! They had certain dissatisfactions, was on fire... but they understood that we were there to make sure that the protests would unfold without violence" our Following the incident, peaceful protesters colleague said. retreated to the Antipa Museum, Kiseleff Road, and Aviatorilor Boulevard. Some of them started But at one point, on the evening of February to leave. A strong smell of tear gas was felt in the 1, a group of agitators, members of the galleries, square, and people covered their mouths with threw with crackers, stones, snowballs with ice, collars and retreated because of the smell. Some bricks or pyrotechnic objects to the gendarmes, came with the kids. challenging them. The intervention was necessary, and our colleagues used tear gas.