Law enforcement in Madagascar

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.
• The Gendarmerie is supplemented by a Presidential Security Regiment.
• 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.