MALAGASY NATIONAL POLICE

maneuvers with the French troops-that.are still stationed in Madagascar.*
It was noted that the Gendarmerie served as Military Police.during the
maneuvers, escorting columns and convoys, directing traffic and acting
as messengers.
4. The strength of the Gendarmerie was reported by the Attorney
General and the Director of the National Polie as approximately 3,800
while the FY - 1961 national budget states 3,960 officers and men with
total expenditures of $6,103,028,.almost three times the budget of the
National Police.
5. 'The organization wds nationalized on 1 January 1961, but is still
-commanded by French officers.
6. The Gendarmerie camp in Tananarive is located in the outskirts
of the city, on the Majunga road. The General Headquartersbuilding is
a large modern structure of masonry consiructio. In the same compound
are large warehouses, quartetmaster depots, barracks for single men and
very spacious and modern family quarters for officers, non-commissioned
officers and enlisted'men. Similar modern, well kept camps were ob­
served in Tamatave, Majunga, Tulear and Fort Dauphin.
7. The automobiles, trucks and'motorcycles of the Gendarmerie appear
.to be well maintained and fairly new. Their transportation is propor­
tionately much better than that of the National Police.
8. The Team was told by Police officials that the Gendarmerie have
an excellent and extensive radio communications network. They stated
that due to jealousies between the two services these facilities were,
*French Army strength in Madagascar was definitely fixed by United States
Embassy Officers as in the vicinity of 11,000 officers and men in 1960.
These same sources now feel that this strength has been reduced to the
neighborhood of 6,000.
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