Law enforcement in Madagascar

The law enforcement agencies of Madagascar include:

• The (Malagasy: Zandarimariam-pirenena), the national police force of Madagascar, with 8,100 staff (in 2006) operating under the Ministry of Defense.
• The Gendarmerie is supplemented by a Presidential Security Regiment.
• A 3,000-member National Police 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
• List of law enforcement agencies
• List of secret police organizations

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.