Colonial Police Service

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The Colonial Police Service was a British organisation formed in 1936 with the intention of standardising police forces in the United Kingdom's Crown Colonies, Protectorates and Mandatory Palestine.^[1][2] Itself part of the overall Colonial Service, it acted as an umbrella organisation for existing bodies such as the Palestine Police Force.

1. ^ Sinclair, Georgina (June 1, 2010). "At the end of the line: colonial policing and the imperial endgame 1945-80". Manchester University Press – via oro.open.ac.uk.
2. ^ Jeffries, Sir Charles Joseph (1952). The Colonial Police. M. Parrish.

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