Brigadier Ronald Joseph Callender Broadhurst (1906–1976) was a British colonial police officer and Northern Irish unionist politician.
Colonial Service
Broadhurst entered the colonial service in 1926. He served as an officer in the Palestine Police Force between 1930 and 1939, including the Great Palestinian Arab Revolt. He was made deputy chief-of-staff of the Arab Legion in 1939, the British controlled gendarmerie of the Emirate of Transjordan and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier. He received the King's Police and Fire Services Medal with the 1946 New Year Honours. He served as one of the British officers of the Arab Legion in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and retired from service in the Arab Legion in 1948.
His papers are held in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast and also in St Antony's College, Oxford.