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London's armed police

01 January 1991

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London's armed police
libdoc November=1991

Author: Gould Robert W & Waldren Michael J
Publisher: Arms and Armour 1986 pp. 222
Keywords: Police firearms History

Contents:
Preface
1. The early years
2. Bombs and burglaries
3. Arming the police
4. Whistles, truncheons and cutlasses
5. Firearms training
6. The Tottenham outrage
7. The siege of Sydney Street
8. The `Evilly disposed'
9. The turbulent twenties
10. The thirties
11. The Second World War
12. Post-war violence
13. Chelsea to Epping Forest
14. A firearms wing
15. Raffles and raids
16. Bodyguards and bombs
17. Sieges and outrages
18. Shotguns and pike drill
19. Into the eighties
20. Submachine guns and gas
21. A new era
Postscript
Select bibliography
Appendices
Index

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