Public Force
When the Defense Forces were dismantled, the government of Guillermo Endara (1989-1994) was commissioned to form a new institution with the help of the US army, which provided the first khaki uniforms. The force, initially a police vocation, was attached to the Public Force, idealized by the then Vice President Ricardo Arias Calderón. The new government organized it as a police force of the Panamanian state, subordinated to the executive branch; calling it National Police with the explicit purpose of providing protection to the life, honor and property of nationals wherever they are and of foreigners under the jurisdiction of their territory. Colonel Roberto Armijo was appointed as the first head of this police force.