African Police Resource Network

Tanzania

Country Background

Shortly after achieving independence from Britain in the early 1960s, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. One-party rule came to an end in 1995 with the first democratic elections held in the country since the 1970s. Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and popular opposition have led to two contentious elections since 1995, which the ruling party won despite international observers' claims of voting irregularities.

Extract from:

The World Factbook

Please find a list of all documents in our database relevant to Tanzania. Use the checkbox next to each line to expand more detail about the file, including the option to download.

Category	Date	Title	Detail
Publications	2005	Afrobarometer Round 3: Summary of Results of Survey in Tanzania
Description: This is part of a comparative series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, markets and civil society in Africa. This presents a summary of the results in Tanzania. Author: Afrobarometer Source: http://www.afrobarometer.org/Summary%20of%20Results/Round%203/tan-R3SOR-19jan07-final.pdf
Publications	2004	Governing Insecurity in Post-Conflict States: the Case of Sierra Leone and Liberia
Description: This paper is in Reform and Reconstruction of the Security Sector Edited by Alan Bryden & Heiner Hnggi DCAF Series: Yearbook 2 The paper demonstrates the complex nature of security sector reconstruction programmes by providing examples of two postconflict countries; Sierra Leone and Liberia. The paper "argues that the security sector reconstruction in the aftermath of conflict is often a product of the nature of transition from war to peace." Author: Fayemi, J.K. Publisher: DCAF Source: http://www.dcaf.ch/publications/kms/details.cfm?lng=en&id=18849&nav1=4
Publications	2007	Political Control and Politicization of the Policing in Tanzania
Description: This paper was presented at a conference on Police Reforms and Democratisation in Post–Conflict African Countries at the Zebra Lodge, Pretoria, South Africa From 12th to 15th March 2007. Jairo is the Director of Public Education and Training, Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance. www.chragg.org. Author: Jairo, R. Source: http://www.idasa.org.za/gbOutputFiles.asp?WriteContent=Y&RID=1936
Publications	2006	The Police, the People, the Politics: Police Accountability in Tanzania
Description: This report looks at the development of the Tanzanian Police Force, in the light of democratic policing principles. Author: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Publisher: Delhi: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Source: http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/publications/police/tanzania_country_report_2006.pdf
Publications	2000	Crime in Dar es Salaam: Results from a Victim Survey
Description: In March 2000 two studies were conducted into crime and violence in Dar es Salaam a victim survey and a series of in–depth interviews on violence against women. The studies were initiated by the Safer City project in Dar es Salaam and UN Habitat in Nairobi to gain an understanding of crime levels in communities within the city councils area of jurisdiction to assist in the development of a crime reduction strategy for the city. Author: Robertshaw, R., Louw, A & Stavrou, A. Publisher: Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies and UN Habitat, Source: http://www.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/1827_64144_darcrime.pdf
Publications	2000	Crime and policing issues in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Description: Crime and policing issues in Dar es Salaam, focuses on community neighbourhood watch groups and was presented the the 1st Sub Saharan Executive Policing Conference of the Internaional Association of Chiefs of Police in Durban, South Africa from the 27 30 August, 2000. Author: UN Habitat Publisher: UN Habitat Source: http://www.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/1825_12883_sungusungu.pdf
Legislation	1998	Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania of 1977
Description: "Although Tanzania’s Constitution of 1998 does contain provisions protecting human rights and freedoms, police abuse of power through the use of excessive force, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture and mistreatment of detainees and the lack of prosecution of guilty parties are prevalent in Tanzania, although the Inspector General of Police has indicated the need for the police to develop a respect for the constitution and the government had improved the human rights training of new police in 2004". Berg, J. Legislation and Policy Dealing with Police Oversight in Tanzania extract from: Julie Berg. Audit of Police Oversight in the East African Region. Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town. March 2005 http://www.policeaccountability.co.za/CurrentInfo/ci_detail.asp?art_ID=450 Author: United Republic of Tanzania Source: http://www.tanzania.go.tz/images/constitutioneng.pdf
Crime Information and Statistics	2004	Victimisation in Tanzania
Description: Surveys of Crime in Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara Author: Stavrou, A and ORiordan, J. Publisher: Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies Source: http://www.issafrica.org/index.php?link_id=14&slink_id=208&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3
Country Websites	2007	The World Factbook: Tanzania
Description: Uptodate information giving an overview of the country, its geography, demographics, government, economy, communications, transportation and military. A map is included. Author: Central Intelligence Agency Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tz.html