National Republican Guard (Portugal)

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Republican National Guard Guarda Nacional Republicana
Coat of arms of the Guarda Nacional Republicana
Motto	Pela Lei e Pela Grei (English: "For the Law and for the People")
Agency overview
Formed	1911; 114 years ago (1911)
Employees	22,608
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Portugal
General nature	Gendarmerie
Operational structure
Headquarters	Quartel do Carmo, Lisbon
Parent agency	Ministry of the Internal Administration (in peacetime) Ministry of National Defence (in wartime)
Notables
Significant operation	Overseas Deployment Angola UNAVEM III 1995–96 MONUA 1997–99 East-Timor UNTAET 2000–02 UNMISET 2002–03 UNOTIL 2005–07 UNMIT 2006–09 DR Congo MONUC 2003–04 EUPOL Kinshasa 2005–09 Iraq IRAQ FREEDOM 2003–06 (within MSU) Republic of North Macedonia OSCE Skopje 2002–03 EUPOL 2005 Liberia UNMIL 2004–05 Ivory Coast UNOCI 2004–05 Haiti UNSTAMIH 2004–05 Palestine EUPOL 2005–08 Bosnia EUPM 2007– EUFOR Althea 2007–09 Italy EUROGENDFOR 2005–11 Kosovo EULEX 2008–09 Georgia EUMM Georgia 2008–09>
Awards	Officer Order of the Tower and Sword Grand Cross Order of Christ Member Order of Aviz Member Order of Prince Henry Member Order of Timor-Leste Member Order of Liberty

The National Republican Guard (Portuguese: Guarda Nacional Republicana) or GNR is the national gendarmerie force of Portugal.

Members of the GNR are military personnel, subject to military law and organisation, unlike the agents of the civilian Public Security Police (PSP).

The GNR is responsible for the preventive police and highway patrol in 94% of Portuguese territory. At national level, GNR also has duties of customs enforcement, coastal control, nature protection, search and rescue operations and state ceremonial guards of honor.

Since the 2000s, the GNR has provided detachments for participation in international operations in Iraq, East Timor and other theatres.

As October 2023, the GNR is now partly in charge of controlling the Portuguese borders (alongside the PSP), with the dissolution of the SEF force.^[1]