London police 1800s

City of London Police traffic duty. Read about the City of London Police Museum in our online magazine at http://british-police-history.uk

Photograph of an unknown North Eastern Railway Police Sergeant taken in the late 1800s.

Manchester City Police Sergeant C12

Four policeman from Nottingham, England 1890s.

I promised to send another police sword. This is the pattern for Thames River Police from 1798 and for the London Metropolitan Police from 1829. Unlike the Counties pattern, it is longer, not so curved and has bars on the guard. This is dated 1867 - when the Met. ordered new weapons for the Irish...

Police women in the early 1900s

Metropolitan Police PC 374A

Sergeant Metropolitan Police 1865

A wonderfully preserved image of a Manchester City Police officer on point duty in central in the city around 1914. Before the electronic traffic light became widespread, officers would control junctions during busy periods. This practice was known as point duty and each officer would be allocated a ‘point’ and set times at which he was to attend. While the signals used were standard, some individual officers became well known to the public for the distinctive manner in which they delivered…

1800s newspaper cartoon drawing

Victorian Metropolitan Police

For discussion of general police procedures, officials and police matters that do not have a specific forum.

Patrolling police constable, from London Illustrated News 1889 p135

A rare book which was one of the first examples of social documentary photography has been put up for auction

Caped crusader: with his helmet lightly covered with snow, a police constable directs traffic on a practically deserted Ludgate Hill in February 1962. Aubrey Hart

Port of London Authority Police PLA PC392

Aberdeen City Police PC 105