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    The British South Africa Police (BSAP) was, for most of its existence, the police force of Southern Rhodesia and Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe in 1980)....
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    The British South Africa Company (BSAC or BSACo) was chartered in 1889 following the amalgamation of Cecil Rhodes' Central Search Association and the London-based...
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    The South African Police (SAP) was the national police force and law enforcement agency in South Africa from 1913 to 1994; it was the de facto police force...
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    The South African Police Service (SAPS) is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1,154 police stations in South Africa are divided...
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  • The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is the national police force of Zimbabwe, having succeeded the British South Africa Police on 1 August 1980. The predecessor...
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  • primarily based on the British model. It was formerly used in most British colonial police forces and in certain British police forces as well. The rank...
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  • An overview of South African police decorations and medals, which form part of the South African honours system. The South African Police was established...
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    Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the Union of South Africa was a self-governing dominion of the British Empire. Its full sovereignty was confirmed with...
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    and British South Africa Police, although used in smaller quantities by INTAF personnel. The design was also used on uniforms issued to South African Special...
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    officially designated the British South Africa Company Police (BSACP) accompanied by about 100 Bechuanaland Border Police (BBP). When they reached Harari...
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  • Police (nationwide; see also various state-wise police forces) Federal Police (Belgium) Bosnian police Federal Police of Brazil British South Africa Police...
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    The Police Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU) was a paramilitary auxiliary arm of the British South Africa Police (BSAP) in Rhodesia. The unit was founded in...
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    Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange...
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    were founded as a native police force but later developed into a counter-insurgency unit of the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian...
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    Rhodesian Security Forces (category Use South African English from October 2023)
    ground force (the Rhodesian Army), the Rhodesian Air Force, the British South Africa Police, and various personnel affiliated to the Rhodesian Ministry of...
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    horse-police accepted almost world-wide. Notable examples include the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Mexican Rurales, the Rhodesian British South Africa...
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    Battle of the Shangani (category Battles involving the British South Africa Company)
    with superior weaponry, the column, consisting of British South Africa Police troopers and African auxiliaries, repulsed them with a heavy loss of life...
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    Peter McAleese (category British South Africa Police officers)
    the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service (SAS), the Rhodesian Special Air Service and British South Africa Police, and South Africa's...
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    In South Africa, the Municipal Police are the separate police forces maintained by some municipalities for law enforcement in South Africa. Municipal...
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  • Central Intelligence Organisation (category Use South African English from May 2014)
    conceived as the external intelligence-gathering arm of the British South Africa Police Special Branch in the early 1960s, under the Southern Rhodesian...
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  • Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (category British South Africa Police officers)
    and Olave St. Clair Soames. He served for two years in the British South Africa Police in Southern Rhodesia and then in the Southern Rhodesian Civil...
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    Randolph Nesbitt (category British South Africa Police officers)
    for the British South Africa Police (a paramilitary Rhodesian force). He retired in 1928 after 40 years of service with the Rhodesian police and civil...
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    South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798...
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    the British South Africa Company (BSAC), a chartered company, on behalf of the British Government. From 1924, it was administered by the British Government...
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  • Army took part in a joint trial using these tactics with the British South Africa Police and Special Branch that year, but it was not successful for at...
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  • Battle of Sinoia (category Use South African English from December 2013)
    engaged with British South Africa Police forces near the northern town of Sinoia. The seven guerrillas all eventually died in the battle, the police killing...
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    system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised...
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  • jumped ship in Cape Town in 1886 and served in the British South Africa Police of the British South Africa Company (BSAC). He played a major role in the colonisation...
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    inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. In 1999, UNESCO designated the region the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site. South Africa's first...
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    Crime in South Africa includes all violent and non-violent crimes that take place in the country of South Africa, or otherwise within its jurisdiction...
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