The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) is a single, national police service with a unified command structure. It is an unarmed service, with an armed response capability, that is mandated by statute to deliver the full range of police services across the Cayman Islands. Founded in 1907, the RCIPS has 390 police officers, 43 specialist staff and 63 civilian staff, who serve the nearly 70,000 people who live on the islands, as well as the approximately two million people who visit each year.