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The British Transport Police have armed officers who have been specially trained in firearms operations, and were first deployed in early 2012. These officers are mainly stationed in London, and their primary focus is on the busiest stations. When they need to deploy officers outside London, they work closely with local police forces. van Grinsven, Michel. "Politiehelmen". Pictures from a private collection. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011 . Retrieved October 3, 2010. Landy, Samantha (2013-06-14). "From military-style to navy blue threads: the evolution of the Victoria Police uniform". Herald Sun . Retrieved 2021-06-23. Externally the top of the very first Custodian helmet’s shape (fig.4) is thought by some to have perhaps been purely ornamental. If so superficially it looks as if it may have been based on the metal British Dragoon helmets of the early 19 th century, but still with elements of the pre-1863 police issue stove-pipe hat. Perhaps the early dragoon helmets of 1812 and onwards were copied giving the first Custodian helmet a coxcomb or ridge. Several regional police forces still use modern versions of this coxcomb style. Fire helmets were indeed based on the dragoon style, a tradition started in France, but with broader flatter brims to guard against embers, brass ones were adopted in Britain in 1868. Aerosol incapacitants are classified as prohibited weapons by virtue of Section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 and possession of such sprays is therefore illegal by the general public. They may only be possessed with the authority of the Defence Council or the Scottish Ministers. [31] Police officers, as Crown servants, are exempt from the requirements of the legislation and can have lawful possession of an incapacitant spray whilst acting in their capacity as a constable or where necessary for the purposes of their duty. [29] Batons [ edit ]

So it can be said with some confidence that the first ‘Custodian’ police helmet was copied from existing contemporary Indo-British sun helmets. It was a direct sibling of the Air Chamber sun helmet and later sun helmet styles then evolving and in production in Britain. The successful and popular military sun helmet designs evolved and the Army asked for a ‘Home Service’ pattern based on them. The police were then offered these by Christys as an alternative ‘Custodian’ pattern www.discoverbritainmag.com ‘An accessory to history’ (2016) contains an interview with Christys & Co Ltd’s Managing Director, Steve Clarke. Helmet from the United Kingdom The custodian helmet used by the Metropolitan Police Service in London

Tasers are regarded as prohibited weapons under the Firearms Act 1968, and their possession is an offence. [28] Police constables are exempt as Crown servants. [28] [29] Incapacitant spray [ edit ]

A Custodian Helmet is also known as a Policeman’s Helmet or Centurion Helmet and technically known as a ‘Home Office Pattern Helmet’. The Custodian Helmet is worn by policemen in England and Wales as the traditional headgear of the ‘Bobby on the beat’, worn by constables and sergeants on foot patrol. A Peaked Cap is worn by officers on mobile patrol in cars.The Metropolitan police was formed in 1829. The early uniform included a ‘stovepipe’ high-crown top-hat style of hat, which Christys won the tender for and supplied. In 1863 a new style – known as the custodian helmet – was created based on the British Army Home Service Helmet. We do not have records of the development process, but, suffice to say, Christys supplied many forces with their specific headwear requirements, including this helmet.’ a b Extended operational deployment of Taser for Specially Trained Units, Operational Guidance, section 5.2 Although much heavier and with an unpleasant tendency to impede the wearer’s hearing, German troops preferred the more protective head gear. Many reported that it stopped bullets and shrapnel that likely would have been fatal had they been wearing their earlier helmet. In fact, casualties from head wounds dropped considerably with the stahlhelm, according to some sources by as much as 70 percent. Figure 17. It is interesting to note that by 1867 Ellwood & Son’s also had contracts to supply ‘helmets to the London, Liverpool, Scottish, & other Police Forces’. This seems to again imply that police helmets were a version of the ‘Air Chamber’ sun helmet. From ‘ The Chronicle & Directory for China, Japan & the Philippines, for the Year 1868’. (Hong Kong: Daily Press Office, Jan. 13 th 1868) a b Leppard, David (23 November 2008). "Police to get 10,000 Taser guns". London: Times Online . Retrieved 8 May 2009.

The Custodian Helmet is also worn by the British Transport Police and Ministry of Defence Police, the States of Jersey Police, the States of Guernsey Police Service, the Isle of Man Constabulary, the Royal Gibraltar Police, and the Bermuda Police. Special Constables are also issued with Custodian Helmets. Police Community Support Officers only wear peaked caps, which have a blue or grey band on them rather than the police officer's Sillitoe tartan to distinguish them from police officers. Northamptonshire Police and Leicestershire Police both replaced custodian helmets with gender-neutral caps in 2017, but later reinstated them in 2019 and 2022 respectively. [19]Although it seems the initial coxcomb style was the norm for around the first ten years of the Custodian’s existence, general fashion or the existing sun helmet’s shape may have inspired an almost immediate reduction in height of the Custodian (fig. 5 to 7) and in the early 1870s a down turn of the brim. In the mid-1870s, however, a fundamentally different design appeared as an alternative Custodian. It had a symmetrical dome with no coxcomb, instead it had an apical finial, these ranged from spikes and mounted balls, to button like ornaments, including the ‘rose top’ (fig.10 & 11). This was to become the most used ornamentation on the alternative Custodian, often leading the ‘bell’ shaped style to be generically called ‘the rose top’, although balls, spikes and other finials persisted in some regional and divisional police forces. Early on the spiked form led to some police helmets being almost indistinguishable from the 1878 army Home Service Pattern. The materials and construction, however, of both the new alternative Custodian and Home Service Helmet were based on contemporary lightweight sun helmets such as the early Colonial patterns then being produced in Britain. (Note; the ‘Colonial pattern’ is a generic term for a comb-less sun helmet style which was developed in the 1850s & 60s from the Air Pipe. Steep brimmed, with extended rear; the Foreign Service Helmet is an example of a ‘colonial pattern’, but one specifically produced for and issued by the Army after 1877. The colonial pattern started to be replaced by flatter, broader brimmed sun helmets in the 1890s-1900s, e.g. the ‘Wolseley’, the Custodian’s brim followed suite in the 20 th century (see fig. 8)). Figure 11. “What’s going on ‘ere then?” At the ‘Sydney Street Siege’ (1911) a mixture of the coxcomb style on City of London Police and rose tops on Metropolitan Police. (Note that by this time the ‘Wolseley’ style flat, extended rear brim is standard). It is important to note, however, that by the 1850s and through the 1860s British hatters Ellwood & Sons were producing sun helmets for the Indian Military, Administration and public (figs., 1, 3, 4, 14, 15 & 18), these had been developed from traditional rural Bengali sun helmets. So very similar, and at the time ‘modern’ designs, using the same materials and construction techniques as subsequently used in the Custodian, were already being produced in Britain. And in fact Ellwood & Sons, the patent holders of the ‘Air Chamber Helmet’ launched legal proceedings against Christys in June 1864, whilst the Custodian was being trialed. Perhaps implying they considered the Custodian a close enough copy of their Air Chamber sun helmet to warrant action. This raises the possibility that there was no input to the original Custodian’s design from traditional European military helmets. Use in countries outside the Commonwealth [ edit ] Cosenza Polizia Locale wearing custodian helmets in dress uniform.

Generally, police officers are required to wear hats except in exceptional circumstances such as emergencies and whilst driving. Why do female police officers wear different hats? Police on bikes, from LS8". Daveches.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2008 . Retrieved 8 May 2009. http://britishpolicehelmet.co.uk/ an excellent collection of British police helmets, period photos and discussion. a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011 . Retrieved 22 September 2009. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) Public Safety Radio Communications Project, Martha WoodbridgeHarley, Nicola (2017-05-10). "Police swap helmets for caps to attract more transgender officers". The Telegraph. The introduction of baseball caps hasn’t occurred without criticism from the general public, who have compared police officers to ‘Burger King workers’. As a result, some police forces have decided to revert the decision and return to the standard custodial helmet whilst other, more appropriate gender-neutral headwear has been decided upon. Why do traffic police wear white hats? Bobby is a slang term for police constables in the British Isles. The helmet itself is known as a custodian helmet, once worn exclusively by male officers in Britain.