The Police of Republika Srpska (Serbian: Полиција Републике Српске, romanized: Policija Republike Srpske) is the executive and operative agency of the Ministry of Interior of Republika Srpska, and is headquartered in Banja Luka.

Police officers are uniformed members of the Ministry of Interior and its executive agency that act objectively to the Constitution, laws, and other regulations of Republika Srpska.

There is a group of women in the Ministry of Interior that focuses on providing better conditions for female officers.

[4] After the fall of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, most institutions, including the Ministry of Interior and Special Unit, were disbanded.

The Police of Republika Srpska was founded on April 4, 1992, when the Ministry of Interior established the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit.

Mile Lizdek and Milorad Pupić were killed in action, Duško Jević, Miodrag Repija, and Risto Lubura were wounded and Miroslav Marić was injured.

After the war, the Ministry of Interior and the Police of Republika Srpska were planned to be merged into the Ministry of Interior of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the merge was drafted in a referendum in 2006.

[11] In 2018, a member of the Serb Democratic Party fired a projectile from a M80 Zolja at the Agrama building in Banja Luka to blame the Police of Republika Srpska and Ministry for the incident.

[15] The police is geographically organized into ten administrations: Banja Luka, Prijedor, Mrkonjić Grad, Gradiška, Doboj, Bijeljina, Zvornik, East Sarajevo, Foča and Trebinje.

and it contains seven municipalities: Mrkonjić Grad, Ribnik, Šipovo, Jezero, Petrovac, East Drvar, and Kupres (RS).

Othern than Šamac, it administers for the City of Doboj and the Stanari, Teslić, Petrovo, Derventa, Modriča, Vukosavlje, and Brod municipalities.

It oversees Trebinje, Ljubinje, Berkovići, East Mostar, Nevesinje, Gacko, and Bileća.

[28] Crime Police Administration is an administration whose duties include processing most complex crimes; controlling, supervising, and directing activities of all organizational parts and support units of crime police; detecting criminal offences; fighting narcotics producing and trafficking; suggesting and determining deadlines of police administration obligations; monitoring, studying and analyzing situations, crime activity, forensic techinques, crime-intelligence analyses, and special operative duties; finding and arresting criminal offenders; providing criminal evidence; publishing arrest warrants and sub-law documents; cooperating with other state organizations; and acting on relevant information by security intelligence services.

[30] Counter Terrorism and Extremism Administration processes criminal offences in field of terrorism and extremism, war crimes and criminal offences according to International Humanitarian Law, for needs of analytic investigations uses all usable data bases of the Ministry and also all public informations, follows realization, studies and analyzes situation and moving of crimes and use of crime-intelligence analyses, crime-technical methods and special operative affairs, prepares sub-law documents that regulate acting against terrorism and extremism and cooperates with other state organs.

The emblem was shown on the right arm for the first time and the officer's name badge was placed on the chest.

The financial crisis of 2007–2008 prevented the Ministry of Interior from changing old uniforms of police officers.

In 1998 the Ministry of Interior started with improving the Framework Agreement for Restructuring, Reform and Democratization of the Police of Republika Srpska, and aside from changing laws, regulations, and organizations, the ministry also changed the look of uniforms and ranks of the police.

Educational institutions that officers attend are Police Academy and Faculty of Security Sciences.

The unit has two detachments: The Faculty of Security Sciences was founded on July 1, 1995 as the High School of the Interior, which began operations on November 21, 1995.

It was later renamed the Faculty of Security Sciences and became the eighteenth organization of the University of Banja Luka in 2017.

[46][53][54] The oath of the Police of Republika Srpska is:[55] I (name and surname) swear that I will conscientiously and responsibly perform my duty as a police officer, that I will abide by the Constitution and laws of Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina and will protect the constitutional order of Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina, rights, freedoms and security, that I will perform the duties and tasks of a police officer even in cases where the performance of these duties and tasks puts my life in danger.Affairs connected with peacekeeping operations are linked with the Interpolice Cooperation Detachment of the Minister Service.

For police officers in Srpska that are interested in peacekeeping missions there are several requirements: eight years of effective work in police service for male officers and five years for females, proficiency in the English language, good physical and mental health, and the possession of the B category driving license.

To access training, police officers need to demonstrate good English language knowledge and computer skills.