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The Chilean Gendarmerie, in Spanish ''Gendarmería de Chile'', (abbreviated to ''GENCHI'') is the title of Chile's uniformed national prison service. The title is historic, and the service is not an actual gendarmerie.〔Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes a gendarme as "a soldier who is employed on police duties" and a "gendarmery, -erie" as "gendarmes as a body"〕 The service evolved out of Chilean Army units which were given police and prison duties. It is an armed service responsible to the Ministry of Justice. It has two mottoes, "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers everything"), and "Deus Patria Lex" (God, Country, Law). Its symbol is a castle. The service is currently led by Director General of the Gendarmerie Colonel Juan Letelier Araneda, a veteran officer of the service appointed to this role by the Chilean president in 2014. ==Early History == Chilean Army units were used for policing and guarding prisons from the time of Chile's independence. Chile's first "professional" prison was built in Santiago in 1843. In 1871 the "Special Guard" was created (''Guardia Especial'') which was Chile's first prison service separate from the army. A Gendarme battalion, the Bulnes Battalion, fought as part of the Chilean Army during the War of the Pacific. In 1892, under the government of Admiral Jorge Montt, the service was called "Special Guards of the Prisons of Chile" (''Guardias Especiales de las Prisiones de Chile'') and was responsible for prisons, executions, and prisoner transport. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chilean Gendarmerie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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