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MM046 -  Edition 2,000

1:43 Scale

 Bermuda Morris Minor

The Bermuda Police Service was created in 1879. Bermuda's only police until then, had been nine Parish constables (one for each Parish). These positions were filled by men appointed for twelve months unpaid service, until pay was introduced in the late 19th Century. These appointments were compulsory. Dissatisfaction with the quality of this part-time Constabulary led to the formation of the Bermuda Police Force under the Police Establishment Act, 1879. The new body consisted of ten full time constables under Superintendent J. C. B. Clarke. Three of the constables were based in Hamilton with Clarke, three in St. George's, with Chief Constable H. Dunkley, and two in Somerset, and there were still twenty-one part-time Parish constables. The size of the police force was trebled in 1901. The first Detective was appointed in 1919, and the Force underwent another reorganisation in 1920, with eighteen constables recruited from the UK raising its strength to forty-six. The size of the force grew steadily over the following decades. The Bermuda Reserve Constabulary was created in 1951. With the closure of the HM Dockyard and the attendant military garrison in 1958, Police Headquarters and other elements relocated to Prospect Camp, the former military heaquarters. A Womans' Department was established in 1961 with the first five female police officers. A marine section was formed in 1962.

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