This chapter provides a summary account of the historical evolution of the police in Ghana from 1829 to 2005. It establishes that the Police Force we have in that country today is a blood descendant of the colonial police force that was established in 1829 to serve Empire, and that it still serves Empire. Drawing from this narrative and building on the first chapter, this chapter argues forcefully that, due to unabated historical institutional continuity, the reform of political institutions in Africa today would continue to merely scratch at the surface and to address symptoms only, until deep studies are conducted into how those institutions were originally crafted to serve Empire. This process will then illuminate how the institutions may be deconstructed and reconstructed to more progressive and productive ends. This chapter, as does Chap. 1 and the entire book, emphasizes that we do not know enough of the governance and political institutions that were handed down to us at the end of Empire to truly begin to reform them. The phantom successes and Pyrrhic victories of African economic reforms in the last few decades have deluded reformists into applying the toolkit for economic reform to the reform of mainstream political governance institutions, leading to dismal and counterproductive results.