One communal administrator, when asked why police had never attempted to disarm the groups, explained, “Because they work together. When they see something, they tell the police, and the police intervene.”[37] An official in a different commune linked the démobilisés to the SNR rather than the police, complaining, “There is a problem here of managing the démobilisés who work with the [SNR].... They are a corps who walks over the police; the police are afraid of them.”[38]