1   CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND DEFENCE POLICY

The army kicked out the militias and rogue soldiers and sent in trained mining police to monitor the sites. [...] The official role the mining police is to oversee mining activities on behalf of the state, permanently deployed to mining sites. [...] The Mining Code does not include requirements pertaining to the role of the Mine Police, thus there is some ambiguity on the role in conjunction to the state’s mining policy and where security lies. [...] Madagascariii The police forces in Madagascar are divided between the National Police and the Gendarmerie. [...] For more information please contact; Bethlehem Solomon Researcher | Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP) Queen’s University 138 Union Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Tel: (647) 923-7993 Email: 12wbs@queensu.ca Website: www.queensu.ca/cidp                                                                                                                 i .