The British colonial police round up Mau Mau suspects at the height of the State of Emergency in 1952. Home Guards were instrumental in search operations “My late husband was a colonial chief ...

This British Gendarmerie was ... principal recruitment and training ground for officers and NCOs for other colonial police forces: between 1933 and 1950, in excess of 2,500 BSPP personnel ...

British colonies experienced an extensive influx of migrants from Ireland. Given that the Irish were a major source of recruits for the colonial police forces, the degree of resemblance between ...