Talk:Royal Bahamas Police Force
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 | Text or other creative content from this version of Drug Enforcement Unit was merged into Royal Bahamas Police Force with this edit on 14 June 2025. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
Article assessment
[edit]START class assessment Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 17:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Historical discrepencies
[edit]1. This article and the RBDF information on which it was based says the Force was established by in 1840 but it's not clear what the source is for this information. The Colonial Office Annual Reports maintain that the Force was established by an Act of Parliament in 1864.
2. It is often said that Salathial Thompson was the first Bahamian Commissioner of Police but it appears that Edward Dewitt Sears was the first Bahamian Commissioner of Police in 1954-1955.
- ash (talk) 21:48, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
3. Gail Saunders in her book Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas 1880-1960 wrote, page 77:
A small police force that was parochially based, with churchwardens and vestries appointing honorary constables from 1789, came under the overall authority of a colonial provost marshal. An act set up a formal constabulary for the first time by authorizing the police magistrate to appoint six able bodied men as salaried policemen for New Providence and enabled the Out Island justices of the peace to add up to a further dozen for the other islands. The police force was expanded by the 1950s, and complaints of police brutality began to be heard.
Merge proposal
[edit]I propose merging the article Drug Enforcement Unit into Royal Bahamas Police Force. I think this police unit is not nearly notable enough to warrant its own article and all the content here can easily be covered in the main article without causing any WP:UNDUEWEIGHT issues. Aŭstriano (talk) 13:43, 14 June 2025 (UTC)
- Closed and merged per WP:MERGECLOSE. Aŭstriano (talk) 22:26, 22 June 2025 (UTC)