Egal’s regime centralized police power under the Interior minister

Evidence

Another part of the regime’s strategy meant bringing the national police under the immediate and direct authority of the minister of Interior. “The culmination of several actions limiting the autonomy of the police commandant included the hurried enactment by the GSR of a decree law on February 8 effectively transferring from the Commandant to the Minister of Interior the power to assign, transfer, and presumably promote all lower officials.” — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1490

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rights of assembly were won through struggle but then contained by new police forces. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1327