RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Kolář, Ondřej
T1 Gendarmery in Interpellations of the National Assembly in the years 1918-1925
JF Historica Olomucensia
YR 2012
VO 42
IS 2
SP 115
OP 123
UL https://historica.upol.cz/artkey/hol-201202-0007.php
AB In the inter-war Czechoslovakia the issue of security forces was treated very frequently as an object of interpellations in the National Assembly's House of Representatives. Objections were made to the gendarmery's real and alleged flaws, especially in Slovakia and frontier areas where the social conditions in the first years of the newly established republic were unstable. Other issues concerned the social security for active and retired gendarmes, questions of nationality and legionaries' status within the security forces and creation of gendarmery trade union. The majority of interpellators came from the left-wing and minority political parties.