More photos of West Midlands Police over decades
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West Midlands Police have been releasing photographs from the force's archives to show how police life has changed over the past century.
This photograph, from September 1950, shows two officers with a "police pillar". The pillars, usually found in the middle of cities and towns, housed a first aid kit, light and emergency telephone.
The force has been urging anyone with information about individuals captured in their pictures, including this one of an officer on a police bike in the 1970s, to contact it.
This photograph shows a forensic investigator at work in the 1950s or 1960s.
The force said it was still trying to track down the girl who was being given road safety advice in this photograph - and where it was taken.
This photograph, dating back to the late-1970s, shows police officers and sergeants from the Traffic Unit with two old force motorbikes. More West Midlands Police archive photos can be found on the force's Flickr account.