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The Mauritius Police Force ( MPF) is the national law enforcement agency of Mauritius. The MPF carries out police, security, and military functions on Mauritius, with about 12,500 police officers under the command of the Commissioner of Police. The MPF is part of the Home Affairs Division, which operates under the aegis of the Prime Minister 's ...
Commissioner of the Mauritius Police Force. The Commissioner of Police ( abbreviation: CP) is the top-ranking police officer of the Mauritius Police Force. He is assisted by various holders of the title of Deputy Commissioner of Police. The CP reports to the Home Affairs Division of the Prime Minister's Office. [2]
Years. v. t. e. The 1999 Mauritian riots were national-scale rioting and protests in Mauritius following the death of the popular "seggae" musician Joseph Réginald Topize, better known by his stage name "Kaya", in police custody. [2] [3] The rioting lasted for four days from 21 to 25 February 1999. Four civilians and one police officer were ...
September & October 1967 Riots. The government of Mauritius dismissed 10,000 relief workers and soon protesters started to demonstrate in the streets of Port Louis to protest against the loss of their jobs. For 5 months leading to the August 1967 elections the Labour government had boosted the number of relief workers by more than 60% (from ...
Duval was born in Rose Hill on 9 October 1930 in an upper middle-class Creole family of mixed ancestry. His father Charles was a civil servant and his mother Rosina Henrisson (1902-1989) was a housewife. [1] In 1933 when Gaëtan was only 3 years old his father died and his uncle Raoul raised him. The young Duval attended Saint-Enfant-Jésus RCA ...
Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon ( Cargados Carajos shoals ).
Joseph Réginald Topize (10 August 1960 – 21 February 1999), professionally known by his stage name Kaya, was a Mauritian musician and the creator of "seggae", a fusion of Mauritian sega and reggae, two popular music genres in Mauritius. Kaya died while in police custody (purportedly beaten to death by the police [citation needed] ); he was ...
1937 - Honorary Consulate of Poland opened. [21] 1942 - Airport established in Plaine Magnien, 48 km from Port Louis. 1943 - Mass gathering of Basdeo Bissoondoyal 's Jan Andolan at Marie Reine de la Paix on 12 December, a precursor to the proclamation of the new 1947 Constitution to grant voting rights to the mass.