Appendix Three: Interview with key informant on election strategy of JOC ALL NAMES HAVE BEEN REMOVED IN ORDER TO PROTECT KEY INFORMANTS IN THIS PROVINCE, BUT ARE TO HAND. The interview was conducted on 15 April. Firstly there was a meeting on XX April at Z Business centre at which the DISPOL (District Police Officer in Charge) B said that there might be a presidential rerun. He told the police to support the government of the day and told them that there would be a full briefing two days later. APRIL YY MEETING, 10 AM TO NOON. Attended by the following senior police officers: Snr Asst Commissioner X Asst Commissioner Y Asst Commissioner Z (a war vet) Asst Commissioner A All DISPOLs were present, from all the police districts in the province Attended by Zimbabwe National Army: Joint Operations Command (JOC) Lt Col B JOC Lt Col C (on list of 200 officers released last week) Brig Gen D Lt Col E Attended by Prisons Services: Asst Comm F Asst Comm G Attended by CIO: Cde H – Provincial Intelligence Officer Cde J – Regional Intelligence Officer Attended by senior war veterans: K – Provincial Chair, war vets All district war vet chairs from the province Attended by Governor of the province The meeting was to address the Police Ward Commanders from all wards in the province. The election was ward based, and the run off will be ward based. These officers will be stationed in every ward centre in their own office. The ward commanders will be answerable to a constituency commander. The constituency commanders are as follows: All names of police officer commanders and cell phone numbers given for every constituency in the province, with some information on actual schools, offices to which to be deployed L is the Regulating Authority for the area. The protocol of command is: 56