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Comoros National Gendarmerie

Year of creation:

1978

Ministry of attachment:

Département de la Défense

Workforce:

952

General manager:

Lieutenant-colonel Mohamed YAHAÏA

Address:

Gendarmerie nationale - Place de France - Moroni - BP 465 - COMORES

Tél.: (00269) 773 09 81

Fax: (00269) 773 59 42

Email: Comgend@gendarmerie.km

Logistic service:

Aspirant Soulé Mohamed

Contracts service:

Lieutenant MARIAMA Bacar

History

On July 6th, 1975, the Government council president, Ahmed Abdallah, declares the independence of the Comoros, which becomes an Islamic Federal republic. The Comoros national Gendarmerie is created in 1978. The decree n° 83022/PR concerns the Gendarmerie internal service organization and functioning. In 1991, this corps merges with the Defence Comoran Force (DCF), become in 1996 the Development National Army (DNA). In 1997, the corps is equipped with specialized training such as the High Personalities Security Group (HPSG), the "Site Guard" and the motorized brigade. In 2011, the Comoran Gendarmerie structures are reorganized. Before the independence of Comoros, the French gendarmerie established in this archipelago belongs to the detachment of Madagascar.

Organization

Under the supervision of the Comoros Union presidency Defence Department.

Territorial organization

• A Gendarmerie Command.

• A Squad of gendarmes at each big island level (Grande-Comore, Anjouan, Mohéli). Every Squad includes Mobile Gendarmerie and "departmental" Gendarmerie forces.

Specialized Training

• The High Personalities Security Group (HPSG).

• The National Gendarmerie Intervention Platoon (NGIP).

• The Air Transport Gendarmerie Brigade (ATGB).

• The search and criminal investigation Brigade (RB).

• The Maritime Transport Gendarmerie Brigade (MTGB).

Missions

• Criminal investigation.

• Administrative police.

• Military police.

Staff

The corps counts 952 men and women. The feminine recruitment is dating from 1991. There is no conscript of the contingent. The recruitment of the officers is direct or semi-direct and for the non-commissioned officers, it is made by competition. The staff is partially accommodated in barracks according to the assignment.

Training institutions

The Gendarmerie and Armed Forces National School (GAFNS), located in Vwadju, is destined for the non-commissioned officers. The officers are trained in friendly countries.

Main equipment

Not communicated.

Cooperation

The Comoros Gendarmerie maintains privileged relationships with France, in particular with Reunion Island Gendarmerie command and the Gendarmerie for the South Indian Ocean security and defence zone. It benefits as such, every year, from technical cooperation actions for the motorcyclists and investigators training, but also in the field of the specialized intervention and from the maintenance of law and order.