ABSTRACT
The Study of colonial policing was, for many years, the neglected stepchild of colonial and imperial history, preserving and perpetuating untested generalisations and myths as undifferentiated assumptions were reiterated and reified. In an academic process that resembled nothing so much as the colonialism it described, the multiple roles of colonial police forces went unexplored, their positions in colonial power structures for the most part went unexamined, and their status as key apparatuses of the state was underplayed.1
