"Bristol Police
Bristol's Victorian policemen were issued with a top hat, blue swallow-tailed coat, white dress trousers, cape, greatcoat and boots. Each carried a wooden truncheon in the tails of his coat.
Later on, in a scare over the Chartist agitation of the late 1840s (these dangerous radicals were making the outrageous demand that all men should have the vote) the nervous city fathers ordered a consignment of cutlasses for the police."
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One of the earliest photographs of police officers in Bristol, undertaking cutlass drill.
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