The Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) is, along with the Gibraltar Customs, the principal civilian law enforcement agency in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. It is the oldest Police force in the Commonwealth of Nations outside the United Kingdom.
The Royal Gibraltar Police previously the Gibraltar Police Force is the oldest Police Force in the Commonwealth, founded in 1830 only 9 months after Sir Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police in London. It was Sir Robert Peel who sent one of his officers to Gibraltar to form the Gibraltar Police Force.
The force was granted the "Royal" prefix by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992.
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