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Gendarmerie intelligence service goes into business protection in the absence of a greater counter-terrorism role

The gendarmerie's intelligence service, the SDAO, is only being allowed to play a marginal role in the domestic intelligence effort overseen by the DGSI, despite improved access to some police databases. [...]
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In the name of greater efficiency, the French Cour des Comptes wants to break an old taboo by merging the gendarmerie's intelligence units and the police-dominated Service Central du Renseignement Territorial (SCRT). For the time being, however, the government has no plans to do this.

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