Algeria mobilises over 5,000 Gendarmes

Head of training department at the National Gendarmerie Colonel Youcef Boulessnane said 5,600 officers will be mobilised in 2009-2010. Of them, some 2,000 student gendarmes will be trained at a school in eastern Algeria.

• “Two training centres in southern Algeria will train gendarmes mobilised as border guards,” Colonel Boulessnane told Echorouk. 
• Head of communication at the Gendarmerie National Colonel Ayoub Abderrahmane said the Gendarmerie is preparing a security plan in coordination with the Algerian public works ministry on the East-West motorway.
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• 1,570 new gendarmes at judicial police
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• A total of 1,570 students graduated from the Officers’ School in the province of Sidi Belabbes (west of Algiers). The school which includes three military barracks offers a two-year- training.