There’s some connection between their civilian police and their immigration services that handle passports etc.
That’s pretty common in socialist countries, in Poland for example all passport stuff were handled by militia before 1989, and afaik those militia passport departments employed mostly civilians.
That’s pretty common in socialist countries, in Poland for example all passport stuff were handled by militia before 1989, and afaik those militia passport departments employed mostly civilians.
Yeah it’s something like that. They aren’t the same people but they have the same ministry, share offices etc.
Also it’s their majority unarmed civilian police, not their miltarized police who are kind of like carabinieri/gendarmarie etc