BOURGOGNE-FRANCHE-COMTÉ: A new crest for the greater gendarmerie region
A ceremony took place at the Deflandre barracks, in Dijon, this Thursday, September 1, to hand over the new crest accompanying the merger of the gendarmerie regions of Burgundy and Franche-Comté.
This Thursday, September 1, 2022, representatives of the eight departmental gendarmerie groups of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté gathered around a military ritual on the place d’armes in the Deflandre district, in Dijon, in order to be presented with the new crest. regional.
From that day on, they now belong to a single regional administrative organization and are united around a common crest. Major General Édouard Hubscher, former commander of Burgundy, takes over as head of the new gendarmerie region.
The ceremony took place in the presence of civil authorities including Fabien Sudry, prefect of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, Françoise Tenenbaum, regional councilor of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, and Thierry Pocquet du Haut-Jussé, public prosecutor of the Dijon Court of Appeal.
4,387 soldiers and regionalized means
The new gendarmerie region has eight departments comprising 4,387 soldiers supported by two research sections dedicated to the fight against crime and serious delinquency.
It also has special zonal and national means, namely the Gendarmerie air section and the GIGN antenna in Dijon. The staff with 187 people was reorganized by General Édouard Hubscher.
“I congratulate all these personnel for the work of reconciliation carried out in difficult conditions which has made it possible to reach where we are today and still count on their dedication to complete our organization”, he declared.
An organization that historically sticks to the regional administration
During his speech, General Édouard Hubscher recalled that the history of the gendarmerie has always been linked to the administrative history of France: “Since the Empire, each canton has had its gendarmerie brigade, each district its company, each department a group. When the administrative regions appeared, the gendarmerie regions were also created”.
The NOTRé law which had acted in 2015 the merger of the regional councils of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, a transitional period had been set up with a “switch of the attributions in operational and administrative matters from Besançon to Dijon”.
A new symbolic crest
A new crest is now the reference representing signs of Franche-Comté and Burgundy: respectively the crowned lion of Count Otho IV of Burgundy and the arms of the old house of Burgundy in reference to the line of the Capetians.
In addition, the gendarmerie groups will receive new flags, which will be the subject of future specific ceremonies in the presence of the departmental civil and military authorities.
Sabrina Dolidze
The cops present
A delegation of motorcyclists from the Departmental Road Safety Squadron
A delegation from the Dijon Research Section
A delegation from the Dijon Gendarmerie Company
Staff of the General Staff
The commanders of the Gendarmerie Companies of Is-Sur-Tille, Montbard and Beaune
A delegation from the Mobile IV/7 Gendarmerie Group of Dijon
The commanders of the eight gendarmerie groups making up the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté gendarmerie region as well as their flag bearers
The two commanders of the Research Sections of Dijon and Besançon