Pembentukan hukum dan ketertiban serta merekrut Polisi Singh dari India Utara adalah salah satu peran awal yang SBUB mulai, mereka juga memperluas perdagangan, sistem pemerintahan, melaksanakan sistem pengadilan untuk menegakkan hukum dan mengembangkan rel kereta api yang dimulai dari Jesselton sampai Tenom dan mendorong aktivitas perdagangan dan produksi pertanian, serta pembentukan perkebunan.
Due to such resistance, establishing law and order as well as recruiting Sikh policemen from northern India became one of the company's earlies priorities, along with expanding trade; instituting a government, courts, and penal system; building a railway line from Jesselton to Tenom; and encouraging the harvesting and barter trade of local crops, as well as establishment of plantations.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix