THE ROLE AND PLACE OF GENDARMERIE FORCES IN INTERNATIONAL PEACE OPERATIONS

The article substantiates the role and place of the gendarmerie-type structures (including police structures with military status, which are part of the FIEP) among the military, police and civilian components in the multinational multidimensional  peace operation at various stages of conflict development, which allows more efficiently and  purposefully to distribute existing forces and means, including through the use of the “added-value” effect of the gendarmerie as structures of the hybrid (military-police) type.