He reformed the Roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army, established the Praetorian Guard, created official police and fire-fighting services for Rome, and rebuilt much of the City during his reign.

This sudden influx of men led to a shortage of RIC uniforms, and the new recruits were issued with khaki army uniforms ( usually only trousers ) and dark green RIC or blue British police surplus tunics, caps and belts.

However, most Republicans did not make a distinction, and " Black and Tans " was often used as a catch-all term for all police and army groups.

The Comorian Security Force ( French Armée nationale de développement ) consist of a small standing army and a 500-member police force, as well as a 500-member defense force.

* 2005 – Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.

The army has almost 1, 400 soldiers, the police 400 paramilitary men, the navy 200 service members, and the air force about 120 members.

* 1980 – The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo

The African country of Gabon has a small, professional military of about 5, 000 personnel, divided into army, navy, air force, gendarmerie, and national police.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

However, Presidents Álvaro Arzú and his successors Alfonso Portillo, Óscar Berger and Álvaro Colom, have used a constitutional clause to order the army on a temporary basis to support the police in response to a nationwide wave of violent crime product of the Mexican criminal organizations going across the north-west region.

The army and police are alleged to be complicit and turn a blind eye to drug shipments from Latin America.

Neither country had a significant army until the 1950s, but East Germany built the Stasi into a powerful secret police that infiltrated every aspect of the society.

The right wing of the country and high ranking figures in the army began to plan a coup, and when Falangist politician José Calvo-Sotelo was shot by Republican police, they used it as a signal to act.

In August 1944 Hitler authorised him to restructure the organisation and administration of the Waffen-SS, the army, and the police services.

The National Guard within Paris had become increasingly restive and defiant of the police, the army chief of staff, and even their own National Guard commanders.

The veterans at first wore a combination of black police uniforms and tan army uniforms ( because of shortages ), which, according to one etymology, inspired the nickname Black and Tans.

Contrary to America's policy which restrained armament ( limited equipment was provided for infantry and police forces ) to South Korea, Stalin extensively armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment ( to include T-34 / 85 tanks ) and " advisors " far in excess of those required for defensive purposes ) in order to facilitate Kim's ( a former Soviet Officer ) aim of conquering the rest of the Korean peninsula.

In 1993 and after, mass evictions of Kikuyu took place, often with the direct involvement of army, police, and game rangers.

In early 1994, political instability increased as first the army, followed by the police and prisons services, engaged in mutinies.

Relations between the police and the army have been tense, and in 1997 the army was called upon to put down a serious police mutiny.

In March 2008, the New York Times reported that in the past 12 months, the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan's army and police forces was an AEY, Inc., a company headed by a 22-year old Efraim E. Diveroli, an Israeli-American from Florida whose vice president was a licensed masseur.

I just wish to congratulate Inspector Trimmer and his efficient police troops in cleaning the city of those horrible automobiles.

The pre-World War I period in Britain was a period of worker strikes and civil unrest involving many violent confrontations between the police / troops, and civilians.

The first organized Congolese troops, known as the ( FP ), were created in 1888 when King Leopold II of Belgium, who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secretary of the Interior to create military and police forces for the state.

Luxembourgish police resisted the German troops, however, to little avail ; the capital city was occupied before noon.

The administration of U. S. President Barack Obama announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and police to 400, 000 active units.

Nigeria boasts to have contributed more than 20, 000 troops / police to various UN missions since 1960.

* 1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria.

Army troops and police smashed striking labor unions by taking over their organizations and arresting their leaders.

On 6 July 2003, in response to a proposal to send 300 police and 2, 000 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to Guadalcanal, warlord Harold Keke announced a ceasefire by faxing a signed copy of the announcement to the Solomons Prime Minister, Allan Kemakeza.

* 1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa ( Namibia ) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.

Hundreds of police and paramilitary troops prevent the protesters from marching on the US consulate.

* September 29 – September 30 – Holocaust: Babi Yar massacre – German troops, assisted by Ukrainian police and local collaborators, killed 33, 771 Jews of Kiev, Ukraine.

* November 8 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government ; police and troops crush the attempt the next day.

Israeli artillery also attacks Palestinian police checkpoints, and Israeli troops engage in firefights with Palestinians.

Byzantine troops followed the Crusaders, attempting to police their behaviour, and further troops were assembled in Constantinople, ready to defend the capital against any acts of aggression.

From 1869, some European nations began to develop new multi-purpose sword bayonets suitable for mass production and for use by constabulary ( police ), pioneer, and engineer troops.

Finally, in January 1959, under pressure from southern Viet Cong cadres who were being successfully targeted by Diệm's secret police, Hanoi's Central Committee issued a secret resolution authorizing the use of armed insurgency in the South with supplies and troops from the North.

In Detroit in 1967, Governor George Romney sent in 7400 national guard troops to quell fire bombings, looting, and attacks on businesses and on police.

He created a 1, 000-strong police force to keep order in Tianjin, the first of its kind in Chinese history, as a result of the Boxer Protocol having forbidden troops to be staged close to Tianjin.

To bolster law enforcement, President John F. Kennedy sent in U. S. Army military police from the 503rd Military Police Battalion, and called in troops from the Mississippi Army National Guard and the U. S. Border Patrol as well.

As Army troops and police stood by, the men fired machine guns at the congregation and attacked fleeing parishioners with machetes.

Japanese military police killed Republican pemuda in Pekalongan ( Central Java ) on 3 October, and Japanese troops drove Republican pemuda out of Bandung in West Java and handed the city to the British, but the fiercest fighting involving the Japanese was in Semarang.

Bangladesh responded quickly to U. S. President Bill Clinton's 1994 request for troops and police for the multinational force for Haiti and provided the largest non-U. S. contingent.