 It is headquartered at Brani Regional Base on Pulau Brani.Given Singapore's standing as a trading port since its founding in 1819, problems of piracy had accompanied its early maritime history until the 1840s when Temenggong Daeng Ibrahim and his son, Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor, openly supported the British efforts to fight piracy.In 1866, the police's maritime operations were formally established with the building of a floating police station.