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#Police passing out parade, 1969.

#Police Sergeant Mair Williams and Constable Bernadette Martin with two ‘KOP’ cars at Cardiff Docks, c.1978.

This snap taken in #Burnley in the mid 1970s captures PC Alan Houghton of Lancashire Constabulary with a colleague from the local fire service. (kindly submitted by @jonphillips16)

'Coughs and Sneezes' ~ 1945 #CoronaOutbreak #coronavirus

The Floral Police Station, #Belgravia - 1957

UK Firearms officer training circa 1990s.

1961 saw the Met Police introduce the first of 26 Daimler SP250 ‘Dart’ patrol cars that would serve as a deterrent to ton up boys and speeding motorists in general. The Daimler traffic cars were recognisable via their Winkworth bell and antenna for the Pye #police radio system.

Lancashire County Constabulary, late 1960s.

Manchester City #Police arrest of suffragette Dora Marsden for disrupting a meeting at #ManchesterUniversity in 1909

#Police officer on duty at #BuckinghamPalace , April 2006

King's Cross Road looking north, c. 1906. King's Cross Police Station (right) and Clerkenwell Police Court (later magistrates' court)

Two Greater Manchester #Police officer play Dads Army with some WWII era helmets captured in this photo taken in 1981.

A #Tottenham fan is escorted past the #Anfield Road end by #police after having a dart thrown at him by hooligans. 06/12/1980.

FA Cup, 5th Round – Birmingham City v Nottingham Forest at St Andrews Riot police at the ready to stamp out any trouble. Trouble flared between rivals fans on wasteland near the ground. 20/02/1988

It wasn't until 1958 that Devon & Cornwall #Police's #Bodmin headquarters could maintain radio contact with every police car across the county. Here a sergeant oversees a constable's radio use in the back of a 1957 Land Rover used in Civil Defence Training somewhere on the moor!

New recruits being drilling at Wellington Barracks, #London.

Mandy Rayner was first female #police officer killed in service in Britain in 1982 when drunk driver ploughed into side of her patrol car 🕯

Perks of the job! A #police officer judges an ankle competition in #London, 1930.

Jewish refugees being marched away by British police at Croydon airport in March 1939 to be put on a flight to Warsaw.