English: Photo taken on 8 May 2019 at Lofoten War Memorial Museum (Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum) in Svolvær, Norway. The museum exhibits uniforms, smaller items, etc. from World War II and the German occupation of Norway 1940–1945:

• Uniform for a German gendarm, an officer in the state rural police and part of the Ordnungspolizei, the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1945.
  • Visored (peaked) field cap (Feldmütze, Bergmütze ski cap)
    • National colours/cockade/roundel (Reichskokarde)
    • Metal police emblem (Mützenabzeichen, "cap badge", Mützenadler, "cap eagle"): Wreathed national Nazi style Reichsadler (German imperial eagle with swastika), the police version of the 'eagle-and-swastika' (Hakenkreuzadler).
    • Single button front closure
  • Waffenrock (tunic) with four patch pockets, turn-back cuffs (Maschetten) and collar (Kragen). Branch or corps colour (Waffenfarbe, Truppenfarbe der Ordnungspoizei) on piping (Paspel), cuffs and collar ; brown indicates Schutzpolizei and    orange Gendarmerie (as here).
    • Double braids (Doppellitzen), on collar tabs/gorget patches (Kragenspiegel, Kragenpatten) for field and junior officers; piped (trimmed) in orange corps colour (Truppenfarbe) indicating Gendarmerie.
    • Ordnungspolizei rank insignia of Hauptmann der Polizei on shoulder straps (Schulterklappen, Schulterstücke); piped (trimmed) in orange corps colour (Truppenfarbe) indicating Gendarmerie.
    • Wreathed Nazi Germany Reichsadler (German national imperial eagle with swastika), the police version of 'eagle-and-swastika', as police insignia on upper left sleeve and cap front. Officer's sleeve eagle (Polizei Ärmeladler) in aluminum (yellow/gold for general ranks).
  • Brown leather belt with support straps and pistol holster. German Third Reich Polizei (police) belt buckle with a mobile Nazi swastika design within a circle with oak leaves and Gott Mit Uns ('God With Us') motto above.
  • SA Sports Badge (SA-Sportabzeichen, SA-Wehrabzeichen) on left breast pocket, a Nazi decoration and physical fitness badge issued 1933–1945, originally only to members of the Sturabteilung (SA), from 1936 to members of all German military and paramilitary organizations.
• Beneath the tunic are seen two shakos, Polizei Tschako being the characteristic headdress ("bump hat") of the Schutzpolizei
• Carved walking-stick with Nazi Police emblem
• To the right: Nazi Germany police bayonet (Drittes Reich Polizei Seitengewehr Paradebajonett), parade sidearm as symbol of authority, with eagle's head pommel (Adlerkopfknauf) and wreathed eagle-and-swastika police emblem, produced by Alexander Coppel, and scabbard with portapee/sword knot

etc.

Gendarmerie (state rural police) were tasked with frontier law enforcement to include small communities, rural districts, and mountainous terrain. With the development of a network of motorways or Autobahnen, motorised gendarmerie companies were set up in 1937 to secure the traffic. (The regular military field police of the Wehrmacht, Feldgendarmerie, was separate from the Ordnungspolizei.)