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Retired as one of the most decorated officers in New York City Police Department history, and received the police department’s Medal of Honor (its highest award) and the National Police Officers Association of America’s Medal of Valor, after killing two people who attacked him, and being injured 11 times in the line of duty; Later elected ...
Orlando Winfield Wilson (May 15, 1900 – October 18, 1972), also known as O. W. Wilson, was an American police officer, later becoming a leader in policing along with authoring several books on policing.
In the 1900s and 1910s, some matrons were assigned to detective squads to conduct investigative work. Although they often officially retained the "matron" rank and salary, contemporary newspapers and court records frequently referred to them as "policewomen", "police officers", and "detectives".
Victorian Police Officer with itinerant circa 1900 - recreation. The officer is pictured wearing a duty armband on his left wrist. London in the early 1800s had a population of nearly a million and a half people but was policed by only 450 constables and 4,500 night watchmen.
Vollmer's courses taught how there were "racial types", and how "heredity" and "racial degeneration" contributed to crime. [1] Vollmer was also the first police chief to create a motorized force, placing officers on motorcycles and in cars so that they could patrol a broader area with greater efficiency. Radios were included in patrol cars.
In South Carolina, a state constable is a law enforcement officer who is either a uniformed or plainclothes law enforcement officer employed by one of the departments of the state government, a retired police officer, or a volunteer reserve police officer. Officers may be variously described as "state constables", "special state constables ...
For officers, it was a navy blue double-breasted coat, and a fireman's style helmet. In addition to also using star-shaped badges and raincoats for the cap. [3] Uniforms of the New York City Police Department in 1871 A New York City police officer, wearing a custodian helmet, answers a visitor's questions at the corner of Fulton and Broadway in ...
The streets in London were dark and had a shortage of good quality artificial light. [1] It had been recognized for centuries that the coming of darkness to the unlit streets of a town brought a heightened threat of danger, and that the night provided cover to the disorderly and immoral, and to those bent on robbery or burglary or who in other ways threatened physical harm to people in the ...