Law enforcement in Madagascar explained

The law enforcement agencies of Madagascar include:

• The Gendarmerie Nationale (Malagasy: Zandarimariam-pirenena), the national police force of Madagascar, with 8,100 staff (in 2006) operating under the Ministry of Defense.^{[1] [2]}
• The Gendarmerie is supplemented by a Presidential Security Regiment.^[3]
• A 3,000-member Civil Police force under the Ministry of Interior, with a role in policing the cities.
• A General Directorate of Information and Documentation Internal and External (Direction Générale de l'Information et de la Documentation, Intérieure et Exterieure—DGIDIE), a secret political police, was established under the Presidency of Didier Ratsiraka.

See also

• Gendarmerie
• List of gendarmeries

Sources

1. World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto published by Taylor & Francis. 2004,
2. World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems,second edition, Gale., 2006
3. Sullivan, Larry E. Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Madagascar - State Security Services. www.country-data.com. 11 March 2018.
2. Web site: Gendarmerie of Madagascar . 2009-05-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110903095634/http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/org/org_29911.html . 2011-09-03 . dead .
3. Web site: Archived copy . 2017-09-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120722072532/http://www4.carleton.ca/cifp/app/serve.php/1082.pdf . 2012-07-22 . dead .