(AGENPARL) – mer 23 ottobre 2024 Carabinieri General Headquarters
V Department – Press Office
Rome, 23rd october 2024
PRESS RELEASE
International Association of Gendarmeries and Police Forces with
Military Status (FIEP), the Carabinieri Corps relinquishes its presidency
to the French National Gendarmerie.
The annual Summit of the International Association of Gendarmeries and Police Forces with
Military Status (FIEP) opened today morning at Villa Madama, at the end of which the Carabinieri
Corps, which had assumed the presidency in October 2023, will hand over the baton to the French
National Gendarmerie. The meeting was attended by the Commanders/Directors General of the 21
military-statutory Gendarmeries and Police Forces who will be received by the President of the
Republic during their stay in Italy.
Annually, a general theme is identified as the object of study; during the Italian presidency,
FIEP focused on combating environmental crimes, with a priority focus on protecting biodiversity and
ecosystems. The particular issue is very much felt by the Carabinieri Corps, the most articulate
environmental police force in Europe, and the comparison with other gendarmeries and police forces
was useful and purposeful for a common commitment in defense of the environment, for the
development of shared best practices and common protocols.
In 2024, FIEP turned 30 years old. In fact, on May 12, 1994, the Tripartite Commission,
composed of the Carabinieri Corps, the French National Gendarmerie and the Spanish Guardia Civil,
was established in Madrid. In 1996 the Portuguese National Republican Guard joined, and the
following year the association, which in the meantime had become the Quadripartite Commission, was
definitively named FIEP, an acronym made up of the initials of the names of the Member Countries at
that time: France, Italia, Espa?a and Portugal. With subsequent Joint Declarations and amendments to
the statutes, the organization took on the character of an “International Association,” and there are
currently 21 gendarmes and police forces with military status belonging to FIEP as members.
In the 30-year history of the Association, prior to the appointment concluded with the meeting
these days, the Carabinieri had assumed the presidency in 1999, 2006 and 2014 in correspondence
with the bicentennial of the institution’s founding. Certainly positive experiences in the important field
of international cooperation.
At today’s summit, a unanimous vote was taken to grant membership status to the Moldovan
Carabinieri Inspectorate.
Their participation in the dynamics of the Association was supported by the Carabinieri in
adherence with the strategic lines of national foreign policy direction.