Law enforcement in Rwanda
Encyclopedia
Rwanda's legal system is largely based on German
and Belgian
civil law systems and customary law.
Law of Germany
The modern German legal system is a system of law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws as for example most regulations of the civil code were developed prior to the 1949 constitution...
and Belgian
Law of Belgium
The law of Belgium is very similar to that of neighboring France, with Belgium having adopted the Napoleonic code which governs French society. Belgian law also derives from the Constitution of Belgium and the European Convention on Human Rights....
civil law systems and customary law.
Historical secret police organizations
- Service Central de Renseignements (SCR) (Central Information Service)
Sources
- World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto published by Taylor & Francis. 2004,
- World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems,second edition, Gale., 2006
- Sullivan, Larry E. Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.