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1907 Great Peasant Revolt, the Rumanian Gendarmerie is reorganized by new laws in
1908, 1911 and 1913.
During the Second Balkan war in 1913, and then during the World War I, the Gendarmerie
ensures the fast mobilization of the Rumanian army and was in charge for guarantees
military police activities,
borders police tasks and
the surveillance of
important military
installations. It organizes
the evacuation during the
1916 retreat and its forces
was also committed in
combats during the 1917
campaign. Then supervise
the demobilization of the
Army in July 1918, the
remobilization in October
1918 and the maintenance
Crowd Control Training of law and order in the new
territories after the armistice.
Upon the entry of Romania into the Second World War, on 22 June 1941, the Gendarmerie
took over its military police duties again.
After the war, the shifting of Romania in the “Soviet Bloc” provokes the Gendarmerie
disappearance in January
1949.
With the end of the cold
war, and then with the
dictator Ceausescu's fall
due to the “December 1989
Revolution” the
transformation process of
Romanian society, marked
by the resetting of
democratic institutions,
have decisively contributed
to the reformation of
Gendarmerie and an
elaboration of a new Special Gendarmerie Unit
concept concerning the position and the role of public order forces.
The Rumanian Gendarmerie was restored with a specific law voted by the Parliament on
18 June 1998, the Law 116/1998, concerning organizing and functioning of Romanian
Gendarmerie. This Law was an important moment in the process of reconstruction of
democratic Romania. The act may be considered as a decisive moment in the process of
reformation and stabilization of Romania on its democratic course.

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