Police Men Collection (#5)

Metropolitan Police officer and children crossing road
A Metropolitan Police officer helps a group of children cross the road. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police officer on horseback in a field
A Metropolitan Police officer on horseback in a field, undergoing training. Another policeman fires a gun, to familiarise the horse with the loud noise. Date: 20th century

Little boy with balloon, wearing policemans helmet
A little boy holding a large blue balloon, and wearing a plastic policemans helmet, probably at a community event run by the Metropolitan Police. Date: circa 1980s

Police motorcyclist, 1904
A police sergeant fully equipped for running to earth motorists who exceed the speed limit. Under law introduced in 1904, all motor vehicles were compelled to be registered

Metropolitan Police officer and lost boy
A Metropolitan Police officer holding a little boy lost. Date: circa 1930s

Group photo, Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove
A group photograph of police officers, male and female, at the Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Portland Road, Hove, East Sussex. WPC Kay Parrott is in the second row, on the right. Date: May 1954

Two Metropolitan police officers with van and dogs
Two Metropolitan police officers with their van and two Alsatian dogs, arriving at a building for an investigation. Date: circa 1960s

Met Police stranger danger education for children
PC Doug Curwen of the Metropolitan Police supervising stranger danger education for children. A strange man brandishes a sweeping brush at two children, who don t seem to be at all frightened of him

Metropolitan Police officers fitted with uniforms
Some newly recruited Metropolitan Police officers being fitted with their uniforms and helmets at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

Metropolitan Police officer and Guards Band, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on horseback, with a band of Guards playing and marching behind him, with Buckingham Palace in the background. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police officers on horseback
A group of eleven Metropolitan Police officers on horseback, undergoing training in a large indoor space. Date: 20th century

Metropolitan Police officer in school playground
A Metropolitan Police officer chats with girls and boys in a school playground. Date: circa 1980s

Metropolitan Police telephone operator
A Metropolitan Police telephone operator at the controls, which link him with Police Boxes in the London area. He is wearing a combination microphone and headphones. Date: circa 1930s

Policeman helping an old lady cross the road
A policeman helping an old lady cross the road. In the background is a corner pub, The Bird in Hand. Date: mid-20th century

Metropolitan Police officer with young son
A Metropolitan Police officer, PC James Newman, with two medals on his jacket, posing for his photograph with his son Charles (b 1898), in an outdoor setting. Date: circa 1903

Metropolitan Police K Division orchestral band

Metropolitan Police officer and his Alsatian dog
A Metropolitan Police officer walking along a street with his Alsatian dog. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police officer and crying child
A Metropolitan Police officer, PC Newell, holding a crying child who is temporarily lost. Date: February 1939

Metropolitan Police Alsatian dog in back of van
A Metropolitan Police Alsatian dog sitting in the back of a van. A police officer sits on the other side of the grille. Date: circa 1960s

Police officers outside a barbers shop
A group of perfectly turned-out police officers line up outside a barbers shop in London. Date: late 19th century

Police officer giving directions
A friendly police officer directs two of his colleagues in the right direction as they travel along in their open-top car

Panama Police Date: circa 1910s

Swedish policemen
Policemen pose in front of the police station, Trelleborg, Sweden 1899 Date: 1899

Chicago Congestion
A busy day on Dearborn and Randolph Streets, Chicago... Not always so bad as this. It took nine policemen seven minutes to untangle the knot. Date: 1916

Police Crowd Control
Metropolitan police officers on crowd control duty in London Date: 1911

Chicago State Street
State Street, North from Madison, crowded constantly during the day with throngs of humanity, surging up and down and guarded at the street crossings by giant policemen. Date: 1916

Walter Henry Gilbey
WALTER HENRY, 2ND BARON GILBEY OF ELSENHAM, ESSEX. Eldest son and heir of Sir Walter Gilbey the wine merchant and horse breeder. Chatting (in top hat) to a mounted policeman. Date: 1859 - 1945

Moro Constabulary, Philippines
Moro Constabulary with American officers in dress uniform, Philippines. The Moro people are mostly Muslim indigenous people of Southern Philippines. Date: circa 1910s

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The Queen visits the Police Headquarters at Hutton, Preston
It is claimed that this visit was the first time that the reigning monarch has visited a provincial police headquarters. The Queen is speaking to Seargeant C

Royal Wedding 1947 - police hold back crowds
A row of jovial police officers link arms to prevent the crowd surging forward during the royal wedding of 1947. Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) married Prince Philip

Come Down - Royal Wedding 1947
An overly enthusiastic spectator at the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 20 November 1947

Boys as Policemen
Erm, excuse me Missus, ain t we supposed to be arresting you? Two boys dressed up as policemen look perturbed when an old lady with a whistle starts to jot in her notepad. Date: 1960s

Policemen & Corsets
Hello, hello, what are these three policemen doing outside a corset shop? Date: 1960s

Police officers patrolling through a pedestrian area

Enthusiasm on the eve of King Faruks wedding
Police keeping the eager populace at bay during one of King Faruks many public appearances in Cairo prior to his marriage to Farida, the daughter of Yussuf Pasha Zulficar

A busy time for the police: King Faruks wedding
Attempting to hold at bay the people that thronged round the Abdin Palace and nearly penetrated the courtyard. The Sphere reports that, " The crowds were good-humoured enough

Car jumpers escort Nahas Pasha to the royal wedding
Cairos youth escort Nahas Pasha, the recently deposed premier, when he returned to the city for the royal wedding of King Faruk to Queen Farida

Uniformed men on horseback in a field
Six uniformed men (soldiers or policemen) on horseback in a field, with other men standing in the background

Old Man arrested - eyes covered
Walter Parsons (aged 63) arrested and walked by two Policemen to Penzance Magistrates Court. One of the coppers partially obscures the photographers view of the felon with a folded sheaf of papers

Policemen in wartime tin helmets
Two policemen in tin helmets worn during the Second World War

Policeman investigating a river barge
A policeman investigating a barge on the River Thames in London

Queen Elizabeth II signing the visitors book at a Metropolitan Police archive

Policemen on horseback
Two policemen on horseback, with a crowd of people in London

Policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup
A policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup of three cars

Metropolitan Police motor cyclists
A group of Metropolitan Police motor cyclists, with the River Thames and Tower Bridge in the background

Policemen with their bicycles
A group of policemen with their bicycles

Policeman with enthusiastic granny
A policeman receives a kiss from an enthusiastic granny brandishing a bunch of mistletoe

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