Royal Bhutan Police
27°27′54.7″N 89°38′25.6″E / 27.465194°N 89.640444°E
| Royal Bhutan Police རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འབྲུག་གི་འགག་སྡེ | |
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| Motto | Truth, Service & Security |
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| Formed | 1951 C.E. (2007 B.S.) |
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| National agency (Operations jurisdiction) | BT |
| Operations jurisdiction | BT |
| Legal jurisdiction | Bhutan |
| Primary governing body | Royal Government of Bhutan |
| Secondary governing body | Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs (Bhutan) |
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| Headquarters | Thimpu, Bhutan |
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The Royal Bhutan Police (Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འབྲུག་གི་འགག་སྡེ་; gyal-zhung druk-ki gaag-de) is the national police force of the Kingdom of Bhutan. It is responsible for maintaining law and order and prevention of crime in Bhutan. It was formed on 1 September 1965 with 555 personnel reassigned from the Royal Bhutan Army. It was then called the "Bhutan Frontier Guards". Its independent statutory basis was first codified with the Royal Bhutan Police Act of 1980. This framework was repealed and replaced in its entirety by the Royal Bhutan Police Act of 2009.