Barbados Police Service

In 1882, the Harbour Police Force was unified with the main land division after it had been established separately in 1867.

The prefix Royal was added to the title of the Police Force in February 1966 during a visit to Barbados by Queen Elizabeth II.

The name was selected to reflect the removal of the Queen as head of state and as stated by the Minister of Legal Affairs Dale Marshall, "...the police force as it is now and as we want it to be in the future, has to be more than the notion of brute strength, a force pushing against people and pushing against objects because policing has long ago stopped being centered on brawn and force".

[6] The headquarters for the BPS is in the former Barclays Bank Complex on Lower Roebuck Street, Bridgetown, Saint Michael.

These insignia were amended, removing St Edward's Crown and replacing it with the Coat of Arms of Barbados as country became a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 November 2021.