(French: Antenne du Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale - AGIGN)
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Regional GIGN branches (AGIGN) are elite regional Intervention units of the French National Gendarmerie. As of 2016, there are 6 regional GIGN branches, which are each administratively attached to a separate Mobile Gendarmerie Grouping. They are under the operational control of their Zonal regions and operate under GIGN supervision. Manned by personnel selected and trained by GIGN, they complement its action in metropolitan France and in the French overseas departments and territories and are an intermediate force between the Intervention Platoons (PI) of the Mobile Gendarmerie and the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN). The AGIGN's missions include arrests of dangerous or deranged armed persons, escorts of dangerous prisoners, fight against organized crime, counter-terrorism.