Djibouti (Arabic: جيبوتي Jībūtī, Somali: Jabuuti), officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the
Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...
. It is bordered by
Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
in the north,
Ethiopia in the west and south, and
Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the
Red Sea and the
Gulf of Aden
The Gulf of Aden ( ar, خليج عدن, so, Gacanka Cadmeed 𐒅𐒖𐒐𐒕𐒌 𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒗𐒒) is a deepwater gulf of the Indian Ocean between Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea to the east, Djibouti to the west, and the Guardafui Channe ...
. The main police force is the
Djibouti national police and
Djiboutian National Gendarmerie
The Djibouti National Gendarmerie (french: Gendarmerie Nationale Djiboutienne) is the national Gendarmerie force of Djibouti, tasked with high-risk and specialized law enforcement duties. It is one of the two main police forces in Djibouti (the o ...
Secret police organizations
*
Brigade Spéciale de Recherche de la Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Special Research Brigade)
*
Service de Documentation et de Sedimentation (SDS) (Documentation and Security Service, meanly faded into the population; they have agent anywhere that could be imagined, and take their source of power in their attendance.)
Sources
* Das, Dilip K.; Palmiotto, Michael (2004). ''World Police Encyclopedia''. Taylor & Francis.
* Kurian, George Thomas (2006). ''World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems'' (2nd ed.). Thomson Gale.
* Sullivan, Larry E. (2005). ''Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement: International''. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
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