Division of Powers
The PN also includes their own paramilitary wing, the Nigerien Internal Security Forces (Forces nigerienne d'internale securite- FNIS), which, with the GN, provides security for government officials and sites and control of large scale civil disorder. The FNIS also conducts military missions in time of armed conflicts, patrols borders, and is armed and trained in military fashion similar to the Internal Troops of the nations of the former Soviet Union. When the Police Nationale was moved to the Nigerien Interior Ministry in 2003, the FNIS fell under their jurisdiction, while the Gendarmerie remained under the Nigerien Ministry of Defense.
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