The Gendarmerie Human Rights Violations' Investigation and Evaluation Center (JIHIDEM) is in Ankara (Beştepe),  an annex (Beştepe) to the main Headquarter. Its other units have been founded in the Operation Centers of Provincial Gendarmerie Commands and all activities are being carried out in coordination with this provincial centers.

The main missions of JIHIDEM are;

1.to receive complaints and applications about human rights violations forwarded to JIHIDEM by means of various ways (telephone, fax, mail, petition, personal application etc.).

2.to evaluate whether or not the  complaints and applications received are within the scope of human rights violations.

3.to investigate allegations and to initiate judicial and administrative investigations in accordance with legal procedures.

4.to reply complaints and applications after investigation.

5.to prepare reports about the replies given to the complaints and applications and statistical information about those replies and finally  inform the public about activities of JIHIDEM.