This article explores the renewed role of chiefs in policing and justice enforcement from the perspective of every-day practices and modes of organising the relationship between chiefs and local state institutions. Based on ethnographic material from Dombe in Sussundenga District. in Mozambique. it asks what the newly forged relationship implies for local state and traditional authority. https://www.roneverhart.com/Back-Roads-Apparel-Circle-Back-Roads-Apparel-3x3/