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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719071393/|title=At the end of the line: colonial policing and the imperial endgame 1945-80|first=Georgina|last=Sinclair|date=June 1, 2010|publisher=Manchester University Press|via=oro.open.ac.uk}} Itself part of the overall Colonial Service, it acted as an umbrella organisation for existing bodies such as the Palestine Police Force.