[POLICE TRAINING FILM] [Allocated]


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  • Other title(s): [POLICE TRAINING FILM] [Allocated]
  • Year: 1922
  • Runtime: 9 mins
  • Description: Racks of weapons, possibly a display of police equipment. A map of the Metropolitan police divisions. An evidence case ? Men working at desks. Out of focus shot of fingerprints being taken. Boys working at woodwork benches. Boys and girls in an institution sitting down to a meal - a borstal ? A laundry. A dormitory for children. Police trainees receive a lecture, the instructor holds up types of number plates for cars. Another lecturer, a police sergeant, shows how to hit someone with a truncheon.
    Extremely dark and blurred film, possibly of police training in Britain in the 1920s.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Police Force / operations, British civilian - routine: police work / training, British civilian - specialist: police / weapons, British - powderless: truncheon / GB
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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