acidmunky;325149 wrote:
do the french have to national service in the police force??
I’ve just had a check and although it appears they have removed the “compulsory” military NS shortly after the start of the 21st century, there is a “voluntary” national service for the public sector, and many young French do still volunteer for the gendarmerie! There must be some financial or other incentive for the French to keep up with their NS though or I would have thought no one would do it…
This is no different from British volunteering to be a special constable or the Rela in Malaysia – except they get to play with guns. Another interesting article I found was the abstract of a medical paper on treating gendarmes who accidentally gassed their own colleagues
