Air Transport Gendarmerie

The Air Transport Gendarmerie (French: Gendarmerie des Transports Aériens) is a branch of the French Gendarmerie placed under the dual supervision of the Gendarmerie and the Direction of Civilian Aviation of the Transportation Ministry. Its missions include:

  • police and security in civilian airfields and airports
  • filtering access to aircraft, counter-terrorism and counter-narcotic activities, freight surveillance
  • surveillance of technical installations of the airports (control towers etc.)
  • traffic control on the roads within the airports
  • protection of important visitors stopping for a layover
  • judiciary inquiries pertaining to accidents of civilian aircraft


Law enforcement in France
National Gendarmerie
  • Air Gendarmerie
  • Air Transport Gendarmerie
  • Departmental Gendarmerie
  • Maritime Gendarmerie
  • Republican Guard
  • Mobile Gendarmerie
    • Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale
    • Groupe de sécurité de la présidence de la République
    • Escadron parachutiste d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale
National Police
  • Brigade de recherche et d'intervention
  • Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité
  • Direction Centrale de la Police aux Frontières
  • Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire
  • Direction Centrale de la Sécurité Publique
    • Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale
  • Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur
  • Préfecture de Police de Paris
    • Brigade de répression du banditisme
  • Préfecture de Police des Bouches-du-Rhône
  • Unité de coordination de la lutte anti-terroriste
    • Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion
  • Service de Protection des Hautes Personnalités
Other
  • Directorate-general of customs and indirect taxes
  • Municipal Police
  • Garde champêtre

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