#INTJ2606320AFrance updates promotion board rules for national gendarmerie non-commissioned officers
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This order updates who sits on promotion boards for non-commissioned officers in the French national gendarmerie. It replaces the existing annex with a detailed list of chairs, substitute chairs, and members for each branch, including departmental gendarmerie, mobile gendarmerie, overseas units, central bodies, specialist units, and technical specialties. The impact is internal. It mainly affects gendarmerie HR teams, commanders, and eligible non-commissioned officers by clarifying which officers take part in promotion decisions across different services and specialties.
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Key Changes
- Replaces Annex III of the 2010 order with a new structure for gendarmerie non-commissioned officer promotion boards
- Defines the chair, substitute chair, and members for promotion boards across departmental, mobile, overseas, central, specialist, and technical branches
- Adds or clarifies representation for newer or specialized units, including cyber, environmental and health, national judicial police, and air-related specialties
Obligations
What this law requires
For promotion boards concerning non-commissioned officers in departmental gendarmerie formations under a regional commander, constitute the board with the regional second-in-command as chair, the most senior highest-ranking officer present as substitute chair, and the listed departmental group commanders, research section commanders, judicial police assistant officer, and regional command assistant officer or designated substitutes as members.
For specialist departmental branches including air and space gendarmerie, maritime gendarmerie, air transport gendarmerie, and armament gendarmerie, constitute each promotion board with a colonel from the relevant branch or, failing that, an officer designated by the national gendarmerie HR director, plus the specified senior officers and branch commanders listed for that branch.
For mobile gendarmerie formations under each regional commander located at a defence and security zone headquarters, constitute the promotion board with the regional second-in-command as chair, the operational support chief as substitute chair, and the group commanders or their acting substitutes as members.
For Republican Guard non-commissioned officer promotion boards, constitute the board with the Republican Guard second-in-command as chair, the most senior highest-ranking officer present as substitute chair, and the chief of staff, regiment commanders, military household commander, and administrator-regulator of musical formations or their substitutes as members.
For personnel serving overseas, in provost formations, in technical military assistance, or in embassies, constitute the relevant promotion boards under the overseas gendarmerie command with the command second-in-command as chair, the overseas gendarmerie chief of staff as substitute chair, and the territorial, external mission, provost, and designated headquarters officers specified in the annex as members where applicable.