Somali National Army and Somali National Police Force
Initially, the Somali National Police Force was not a branch of the Somali National Army (SNA), and did not operate under the army's command structure. Until its dissolution in 1976, the Ministry of Interior oversaw the Force's national commandant and his central command. After that date, the SPF came under the control of the presidential adviser on security affairs.
The late Somali President, Mohamed Siad Barre, was the Somali National Police Chief during the last decade of the pre-independence period in Somalia. A section of the police force received military training soon after independence in 1960 to form the Somali National Army.
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