At the Revolutionary Assembly held in 1811, a new reform of state administration was carried out, and the Serbian Governing Council was divided into 6 ministries.

In 1815, Prince Miloš Obrenović made a decision on the organization of pandurs - state-wide police officers in charge of public order and security of customs roads.

The restored Serbian Soviet also received the function of the supreme police body (with a department for internal and judicial affairs) in 1825.

Due to the protests of Turkey and Russia, Prince Miloš Obrenović united military and police affairs shortly after its adoption.

In 1860 the first unified uniformed and armed gendarmerie company of 120 infantrymen and 15 cavalrymen was formed in Belgrade.

Militia was reorganized in 1992 in then-constituted Republic of Serbia and was subordinated to the newly-established Public Security Directorate (Resor javne bezbednosti - RJB).

After the war, police general Sreten Lukić was sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to 22 years in prison for deportations, forced relocations, murders, persecutions and other inhumane acts works.

There are 27 regional police directorates: City of Belgrade, Bor, Čačak, Jagodina, Kikinda, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Kruševac, Leskovac, Niš, Novi Pazar, Novi Sad, Pančevo, Pirot, Požarevac, Prijepolje, Prokuplje, Smederevo, Sombor, Sremska Mitrovica, Subotica, Šabac, Užice, Valjevo, Vranje, Zaječar, and Zrenjanin.

They are in charge of community policing and traffic control as well as providing police administrative services to the public (issuing of identification cards, driving licences, passports, residential and working permits for foreign citizens; registration of motor vehicles and issuing registration plates).

[7] Formal dress uniform, worn at ceremonial occasions, also presents dark blue outfit with straight-cut trousers (option of pencil skirt for women), coat, white shirt, dark blue tie, and pair of leather shoes.

One distinctive feature common for all these specialized units that are easily noted by general public is that their standard service headgear include berets and/or helmets in compare with soft caps of the regular police.

Various items of equipment are usually carried on the duty belt of uniformed officers: baton, handcuffs, personal radio, police notebook, pens.

The following firearms are used by the Serbian Police: Today, most common types of motor vehicles include various models from Škoda and to much lesser degree from Volkswagen, Fiat, Toyota, Dacia, BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz.

Patrol cars are painted in white color scheme with livery markings on the sides: consisted of wide blue stripes bordered on both sides with thiner stripes of rectangles, and with the POLICE (ПОЛИЦИЈА) marking and a small police emblem.

Escort cars (used by the Unit for the Protection of the Important Persons and Residences) are unmarked but are typically painted in black metallic color.

Non-uniformed branches (most notably Criminal Police Directorate) generally use unmarked cars.

On that day in 1862, a little more than 100 gendarmes opposed a Turkish force several hundred times stronger and practically saved Belgrade and Serbia.