ITS MISSIONS DEAL WITH : .

National defence

- Protection of the military facilities of the French navy ;

- Protection and control of the population and the goods ;

- Public order on the French navy sites ;

- Intelligence gathering, in and around the French navy facilities ;

- Surveillance of the territorial waters ;

- Protection of the prominent harbours (Marseilles, Le Havre)

Marine policing

- Criminal investigations on the sea ;

- Coastal and deep-sea fishing, boating police ;

- Protecting the maritime trafic ;

- Public health control ;

- Tackling trafficks (irregular immigration, drugs, illegal work, counterfeiting...).

When needed the maritime gendarmerie can help the divisional gendarmerie or other departments of the gendarmerie according to its competences and knowledge.

In the European legal framework, it is one of the major actors of border policing working alongside the UK, Spain, Belgium, and others...