'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎143v] (291/610)

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Cost,
General.
General.
Organization.
Equipment.
exists in the country. Its organization goes considerably beyond
the scope of a road pohce, which is the ordinary accepted func
tion of a gendarmerie. As it stands the gendarmerie is a mili
tary force but without the training necessary for serious opera
tions.
55. “ The annual cost of the gendarmerie, at its present
strength, is about 30,400,000 krans.”
Noth —During 1920 the Gendarmerie have proved very inferior to the
Cossacks’ A detachment in Rasht went over en masse to the Bolsheviks, and
detachments in the East of Gxlan, in Tunakabun and in Alamut all retired m
some cases quite unnecessarily, at the rumour of the approach of Bolsheviks with
out waiting to meet them or ascertain their numbers. The rank and file are ot
poor physique, many of them- townspeople and the proportion of undersized
hoys among them is striking. Control of the Gendarmes when distributed m
posts along roads is extremely difficult, but on the whole their behaviour
towards the inhabitants is better than that of the Cossacks.
The Amnia.
56. t£ In. many provinces there exists an Amnia or road
police, administered by local governors. The numbers and cost
of these cannot be ascertained accurately but probably amounts
to a million krans per annum. Their rates of pay are variable
and in some cases they are a menace rather than a security to
the routes they are supposed to guard.”
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57. The regular police extends only to the towns of Tehran,
Kazvin, Rasht and Meshed. Its functions are those of ordinary
town police, but even at these towns it does not perform all
police duties, such as guarding private houses that require
protection and considerable numbers of troops are used to
supplement it.
Its total strength is 6 Swedish officers and 2,250 Persians,
including officers.
58. The police consists of a headquarters, under a Swedish
Organizer in Chief, with the police of Tehran (1310), Rasht
(370), Kazvin (200) and Meshed (370). The other Swedish
officers act as instructors both at headquarters and in the towns
named. The regular police organization is being extended to
Tabriz.
59. Every policeman is armed with a Russian rifle, officers
and Non-Commissioned Officers with swords and automatic
pistols while a number of policemen carry batons. Ball
ammunition is carried as required. Clothing at the rate of
two outfits per annum is issued free to each policeman. The
estimated cost to Government is 15 tumans, per head per
annum.
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