Groupe mobile de réserve

mobile reserve groups), abbreviated as GMR, were paramilitary gendarmerie units created by the Vichy regime during the Second World War.

The GMR was conceived at the time as a prefiguration of the renewal of the Vichy French Army, limited to 100,000 men by the armistice with Germany, and as a force to maintain order along the lines of the Gendarmerie mobile.

From autumn 1943 onwards, the GMR took part in offensives launched by the Vichy government against maquis formations, with the consent of the Germans.

[1] The main responsibility for larger-scale military actions fell on the German army with secondary participation by the Milice.

After the liberation on 8 December 1944, the GMR were dissolved, and a part of them were merged, after épuration (purging of collaborators), with elements from the French Forces of the Interior to create the Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (CRS).