1970s police uniform

Daily dress uniform of a senior sergeant of the Soviet militia, the police force, mid to late 1970s as introduced in 1969 when the dark blue uniforms of the 1958 regulations were replaced. The tunic, in line with the 1969 regulations, is a gray militia officers gabardine uniform with matching red piped gray breeches and in this case a 1980s white summer visor cap. The white caps were part of the summer uniform and to be worn with the shirt, exceptions did occur yet the cap, to be correct, is…

Oklahoma City Police Department, 1968

Two Greater Manchester Police officers strike a pose for the camera in one of a series of image intended to be used in a recruitment campaign in 1977. The location is the famous Bruche Police Training Centre near Warrington. Police officers from many local forces trained at the centre between 1946 and its closure in 2006. The site was originally developed at the start of World War 2 to house workers from a nearby munitions factory. It appears never to have been used for its intended purpose…

An officer of Greater Manchester Police photographed in 1975. We think the image was taken to display the latest version of the force's uniform. Please visit Greater Manchester Police Museum to find out more about our history. To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response. Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime…

PC Robert Brown joined the Metropolitan Police at the age of 19 in 1968, when officers relished in their £855 annual salaries and marvelled at the recent technological development of personal radios.

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