Bessarabian Regional Inspectorate of Gendarmes

The gendarmes' institutional bodies, in accordance with the Law on the Organization of the Police of July 21, 1929, performed the functions of the administrative police, judicial police, and security in the rural settlements of Bessarabia Information reports of the Regional Inspectorate of Gendarmes Bessarabia on the detection of persons of Jewish origin, their mood and attitude; placement of the Jews to the concentration camps and ghettos; correspondence with the Romanian Gendarmerie; information reports about individuals suspected of activity in favor of the USSR and Hungary, as well as anti-Romanian activity Îndrumătorul Arhivei Naţionale a Republicii Moldova (partea II-a, 1918 – începutul secolului XXI, ediţia a II-a, revăzută şi completată). Chişinău, 2012: 63