Editing Armed Forces of Senegal (section)

== National Gendarmerie ==
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The Gendarmerie is a military force which provides policing and security. It includes a Territorial Gendarmerie with general policing duties, and a Mobile Gendarmerie for special tasks and serious public disorder.

The Senegalese gendarmerie evolved out of a French colonial [[Spahi]] detachment sent to Senegal in 1845. This detachment (which became today's [[Red Guard of Senegal]]) was the cadre around which the "Colonial Gendarmerie" was formed. On independence this became the National Gendarmerie.

The commander is General Abdoulaye Fall (a different person from the current Armed Forces Chief of Staff of the same name), whose rank is [[divisional general]], and whose full job title is "High Commander of the Gendarmerie and Director of Military Justice".