Law enforcement in Madagascar

The Law enforcement agencies of Madagascar include:

• The Gendarmerie Nationale, the national police force of Madagascar, with 8100 staff (in 2006) operating under the Ministry of Defense. ^[1], ^[2]
• It is supplemented by a Presidential Security Regiment ^[3]
• There is a 3,000-member Civil Police force under the Ministry of Interior, with a role in policing the cities. ^[1]
• 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 Ratsiraka ^[1]

References

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.