Very pleased to have been involved in organising this. Conference at the University of Wolverhampton on Friday September 13th. Policing and War. Taking place with the generous support of SHoW , Police History Society and British Criminology . An outstanding line up of speakers.

He was awarded the George Medal as a Met DS for helping arrest a rifle-armed burglar in Manor House in 1966. His medals and papers are on long-term loan to us and we hope to make them available to researchers soon. #MondayMotivation #WWII (CC TheParachuteRegiment CamdenHistorySociety)

#OnThisDay 185 years ago Queen Victoria granted royal assent to the 2nd Metropolitan Police Act, subsuming MPSonthewater & the Bow Street Mounted Patrols into the ten-year-old force & expanding its radius from 7 to 15 miles from Charing Cross. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #CeJourLà

Caught in time: The Grays Inn area of Kings Cross, London, in the early 1900s. Then a very poor area with tenement housing and what was termed then as street urchins and washing lines out on the street as a policeman walks the beat.

Forming London's first body of paid women police - very mindful, very demure ...

The first police dog in the West Midlands region was PD Don - joining Walsall Borough Police in 1939 Birmingham gained PD Flash in 1951, and Coventry recruited Flame, Blaze, and Dante 10 years later, named as a tribute to those lost during the Coventry Blitz #WeAre50 #Animals

Our Chair, Paul Griffiths and Vice Chair, Kate Halpin, will be speaking at the NARPO conference tomorrow on police history and our society….

Can anybody please help identify which force this constable belonged to? Penzance photographer, but that is not a Penzance Borough Police badge. Police History Society PenzanceHour @PenleeHouse Cornwall Hour