National Gendarmerie Day in Argentina

The Force is framed in Law 48, Law 18.711, Law No. 23.554 of National Defense, Law No. 24.059 of Internal Security and in its Organic Law No. 19.349, which regulates its organization, mission, functions, jurisdiction and competences, as well as the legal regime of its personnel.

It was created in 1938 by the National Congress, due to a real public need, especially to consolidate the International Boundary, to guarantee the security of settlers and settlers settled in the National Territories, remote and isolated regions of the country and to replace the old Line Regiments of the Argentine Army in their function of border protection.

The particularities of the territory where the mission was to be carried out and its nature, determined that the Force was born as a Corps with organization, military training and strict discipline, a circumstance that is still maintained to date.

That was the genesis of its creation and the spirit that legislators have printed in the project that was later enacted as Law No. 12,367: "to contribute decisively to maintain the national identity in border areas, to preserve the national territory and the intangibility of the international boundary".

Its personnel were subject to a military disciplinary regime, with structure, training, military doctrine and legal training that allowed them to perform police functions in peacetime and in wartime to integrate the military land component: a concrete case was their participation in the Malvinas War in 1982.

They also participated in missions and were part of Annual Antarctic Teams in Argentine Antarctic Sector Bases.