The gendarmerie and the police were recently given a pay rise, but not the army.
The Belgian gendarmerie mounted their largest ever operation all for a game of football.
But the town's threadbare garrisons suggest the army and gendarmerie would be ill-prepared to take the offensive.
They believed that the gendarmerie, the paramilitary police force, was powerful enough to protect the state from any threat.
The deputy commander of the gendarmerie has denied any knowledge of the attack.
The penchant for military-style responses is stronger in those continental European countries (and their colonies) where a paramilitary gendarmerie backs up a civic constabulary.
The deployed security force includes 17, 000 gendarmerie members, the agency said.
Kabylia, a prosperous region east of the capital whose largely Berber population has begun pressing for autonomy, is now a no-go zone for the federal gendarmerie.
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He also plans to send a new national gendarmerie to patrol the most violent sections of the country and send out specially trained federal police units who will work to fight extortion and kidnapping.
"At the gendarmerie headquarters they undressed us, they hit us, they put us into a truck with bodies, they took us to Yopougon and there the soldiers opened fire, " said the man, identifying himself only as Ibrahim.
He's also discussed a plan to divide the country into regions to tackle security problems and to create a new national gendarmerie force, which could eventually send Mexico's military out of the streets and back into their barracks.
Its police force, the Gendarmerie, is hunting for the source of an unprecedented string of leaks, most of them apparently intended to get Pope Benedict XVI to dismiss Tarcisio Bertone, who as secretary of state is the Vatican's most senior official.
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