Constables Collection

Policemen in station parade room, London
Four policemen stand ready in their uniforms, with notebooks, whistles and truncheons, in the station parade room at Ruislip, north west London, watched by their commanding officer

First Metropolitan Police-Dogs
Front cover photograph showing two London policemen with the first Metropolitan police-dogs in 1938, thirty years after the first dogs were used by the North Eastern Railway Police to patrol Hull

Troopers of Queensland mounted police, Australia -- full dress uniform (left) and khaki bush uniform (right). Date: circa 1900s

Comic Postcard - Oxford - A Run with the Man-pursuing Hounds
A Run with the ανθρϖπο θηρϖμενοι Hounds has sketches of the proctors and bulldogs (Oxford University constables)

Henty & Constable's XXX Ale

Street scene with two village constables
Street scene with two village police constables who share a joke with a local man. Date: circa 1930s

A temporary wartime policeman in uniform, September 1939
A temporary wartime " bobby" wearing his armband and helmet, and carrying his gas mask in London, a few weeks after the outbreak of World War Two. Date: 1939

Mounted police, HQ Barracks, Perth, West Australia
Mounted police in the yard of Headquarters Barracks, Perth, West Australia. Date: circa 1900s

Mounted police troopers on camels, South Australia
Mounted police troopers on camels in the stony desert of South Australia. circa 1900s

Mounted police, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Police troopers at mounted drill, Redfern Barracks, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Date: circa 1900s

Mounted police, New South Wales, Sydney HQ, Australia. Date: circa 1900s

Group of six women police officers in London, WW2
Group of six women police officers, one of them a sergeant, wearing air raid helmets and carrying canvas bags in London during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Two women police officers in London, WW2
Two women police officers on duty wearing air raid helmets on a London street during the Second World War. They are WPCs Ivy Baxter and Beatrice Gargrave (both joined June 1937). Date: 1940s

Spain. Burgos. The Cordons House. Palace of the Constables of Castile. 15th century. Built bay Juan de Colonia (1410-1481) and Simon de Colonia (1451-1511). Balcony of facade

Three women police officers, Isle of Man, WW2
Three women police officers in an informal group photo while serving at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War

Three police officers, Isle of Man, WW2
Three police officers in an informal group photo while serving at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War. Their duties included luggage checks and guarding internees

Woman police officer off duty, Epsom, WW2
Woman police officer (WPC Ivy Baxter) off duty, while stationed at Epsom, Surrey, during the early part of the Second World War (spring 1940)

Group photo, male and female police officers, London
Group photo, male and female police officers on a Met Police CID training course for detective constables, taken on 13 March 1948

Women police officers and others, Isle of Man, WW2
Four women police officers and others in a group photo at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War, where they were responsible for security, including luggage checks

Four women police officers doing luggage search, WW2
Four women police officers doing a luggage search at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War

Four women police officers having a tea break, WW2
Four women police officers having a tea break during a luggage search at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War

Three women police officers in a dormitory, London, WW2
Three women police officers, one of them in uniform, sitting in a dormitory (possibly also an air raid shelter) in London during the Second World War, having a cup of tea. Date: 1940s

Woman police officer in London, WW2
Woman police officer on duty wearing an air raid helmet on a London street during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Strike / Constables
A detachment of the new civil constabulary - volunteers to act as transport guards and help quell disturbances Date: May 1926

Special Constables in tin hats, Illustrated War News, WW1
Ready for air raid duty, three special constables on the home front pose for a photograph in " tin hats." Date: 1917

A group of WPCs
A line of woman police constables, smile for the camera. Date: 1980s

Habitual Criminals Bill
As a result of the Habitual Criminals Bill which has recently passed through the House of Lords, constables were authorised to summarily apprehend, without warrant, ticket-of-leave men

Women helped during the Great Strike 1926
In Mrs Loefflers canteen at Scotland House. Lady volunteers, including Lady Louis Mountbatten, feeding Special Constables, who had come to Scotland Yard to report, while on duty

The General Strike - Sphere emergency number
Front cover of The Sphere emergency number issued during the General Strike. Photograph shows mounted police controlling crowds at Elephant and Castle in South London

Metropolitan Police Duty Hints instruction book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Duty Hints for Constables and Section Sergeants

Group of Special Constables, London
A group of eleven Special Constables of the Metropolitan Police, London, pose for their photograph. They are all in uniform, and some have decorations from the First World War above their left pocket

Group of policemen, Battersea, London
A group of policemen pose for their photograph at Battersea in south west London. They are all in uniform, some wearing helmets, others (the Special Constables) in peaked caps

Police Squad
Led by their sergeant, a clutch of constables march to their duties, passing a shoe black who uses only Carrs Blacking - no doubt this is an advertisement ?

Distribution of Staves
The Great Chartist Demonstration: Distribution of the Staves Special constables prepare for trouble by handing out truncheons

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