“Policebuilding”—the recruitment and training of local police forces—has become a flagship activity of international intervention in fragile and conflict-afflicted states in the Global South. The core policing problem, from this perspective, is illiberal, non-democratic polities, where police forces are prone to commit human rights abuses and engage in regime policing rather than protecting the population. This chapter questions two assumptions that underpin international policebuilding: first, that policing problems in the Global South are domestically generated and, second, that Northern and Southern policing models are inherently distinct and separate, making Northern models an external solution to Southern model’s endogenous problems. It challenges the analytic bifurcation between North and South that legitimizes policebuilding. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship, it demonstrates that policing in the Global North and the Global South has evolved in tandem rather than on separate tracks. In other words, coloniality is central to understanding policing globally today. Recurring problems that span both the Global North and the Global South—such as the use of excessive force by police or the targeting of minority populations—are unlikely to be resolved by technocratic fixes that obscure the recursive coloniality of police.