The MPF is part of the Home Affairs Division, which operates under the aegis of the Prime Minister's Office.

[1][3] Military advisers from India and the United Kingdom work with the Special Mobile Force, the National Coast Guard, and the Police Helicopter Squadron, and Mauritian police officers are trained in India, the United Kingdom, and France.

India and the United States provide training to National Coast Guard officers in such fields as seamanship and maritime law enforcement.

In 2020, CP Khemraj Servansingh transferred Seewoo to the Pointe-aux-Cannonniers police station and dismantled the ARS.

[10][11][12] The Maritime Air Squadron (MAS) was established in 1990 and operates a fixed wing fleet of three HAL Dornier 228 and one Britten-Norman Defender BN-2T for search-and-rescue missions and surveillance of territorial waters.

[15][16] The Commando Unit trains with the Indian Navy's MARCOS and the French Army's 2nd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (2e RPIMa), based in Réunion as part of FAZSOI.

[17][18] In March 1990 one radar equipped HAL Dornier 228 was ordered from India to form a maritime surveillance element by July 1991.

This aircraft was reinforced in 1992 by a single twin turbo prop BN-2T Maritime Defender for coastal patrol work.

Established in 1974, its main roles are search and rescue and casualty evacuation both inland and at sea, combatting gandia cultivation, traffic patrols, convoy escorts, and VIP transport.

[32][33] The SMF recruited World War II veterans and select police officers and was led by British commanders until 1978.