British colonial models of policing secured law and order by establishing paramilitary constabulary forces in colonies to quell ‘uprisings’ from ‘primitive’ local populations (Emsley, 2014). The existence of the ‘other’ provides the ideological basis for public order state policing, embedding racist practices through ideologies of imperialism, status and belonging (Long, 2018). While policing cultures varied across colonial territories, policing in ‘colonies of rule’ tended to use force, surveillance, and intelligence-gathering to control indigenous communities. Rather than crime control, these forms of policing embodied the political aims of controlling quelling public disorder” (Bell, 2013).