'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎142r] (288/610)

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(6) Gendarmerie.
50. “The present gendarmerie is a resuscitation of the old General.
Swedish gendarmerie, which was broken up during the war by
the desertion of considerable numbers of its officers and men
to the Germans and Turks.
The present strength of the Gendarmerie is 3 Swedish officers,
242 Persian officers, 8,158 Persian ranks and 2,340 horses. The
estimates provide, however, for a force of 11,342 of all ranks
and 4,511 horses.
51. The gendarmerie is organized into a headquarters at Organization.
Tehran and a number of regiments and independent battalions.
The 1st regiment at Tehran has 4 battalions and is employed in
guarding roads. The 2nd regiment, also at Tehran, has 2
battalions, 3 squadrons and an artillery detachment and is
kept as a moveable column, the 3rd is an independent battalion
also at Tehran, and does police work in the town. The 4th
regiment has three battalions at Qum, Sultanabad and Daulata-
bad respectively. It has 2 mountain guns attached to it and
guards roads and does police work in the towns. The 5th is
, an independent battalion at Kazvin guarding roads and doing
police work in the towns. The 6th regiment has two battalions
at Isfahan and one at Kashan and has 4 guns attached to it.
It guards roads and furnishes a moveable column at Isfahan.
The 7th to the 11th are all independent battalions with head
quarters at Kirmanshah, Mazandaran, Meshed, Samnan and
Senneh respectively. The 11th battalion is engaged in opera
tions against the Kurds, the others are all guarding roads or
doing police work in the towns. The 7th finds a moveable
column at Kirmanshah and the intention is to raise this to a
a full regiment of 3 battalions, of which one is to be stationed at
Hamadan.
The battalions are all divided into four companies. Batta An extra allowance of pay granted to soldiers involved in special field service or to public servants on special duty.
lions vary from 700 to 300 men. Except in the second regiment
where the mounted men are separately organized, each com
pany contains a proportion, about one quarter, of mounted
men. The 3rd battalion, doing police duty in Tehran town,
has only 50 mounted men.
The guarding of roads is done by a system of dotting posts
of four to ten men over areas allotted to a section or a company.
A number of such section areas constitute a company area. The
men are only relieved from such posts at long intervals.
arm , ame11 ^ the corps is of various patterns. The Equipment.
1st and 2nd regiments and the 3rd independent battalion have