Remembering policing: Cumbria is a force to be reckoned with

Today we look back on policing in Cumbria over the years.
Our first picture was taken in 1925 and shows officers from Barrow’s County Borough Police Force.
It is quite remarkable to see the difference from officers today, with all of them looking stern and many with moustaches.
Those not in uniform wear suits and bowler hats, which can hardly have been practical for chasing criminals.
Perhaps those officers were deskbound.

Fast forward to 2017 and Police and Crime Commissioner Peter McCall is pictured addressing the audience at the start of the community awards ceremony at Workington Police Station.

Another picture from the same year supplied by the RSPCA relates to its animal cruelty statistics.
Police in Cumbria were investigating cock fighting and hare coursing.

In 2016, Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers were appealing to the public to report anything suspicious at Sellafield - perhaps there had been an incident?

Meanwhile, police were among the first responders when a car veered off the railway bridge near Brampton and crashed onto the track below.

The tragedy of Donald Campbell’s death in a crash on Coniston Water, in 1967, is well documented, and police were involved in the search for his remains.
It was not until 2001 that they announced that they’d been found.

Officers are shown learning how to deal with a traffic accident during training at Barrow Police Station in June 1965.
They certainly look to have taken their work seriously,

Another picture, from 2016, shows Woodrouffe Terrace in Carlisle sealed off as a police Crime Scene Investigation team carry out work. What has happened is not made clear.

The final image is of a joint operation between Cumbria Police and Home Office Immigration Enforcement at the Shiny Car Wash facility on Warwick Road in Carlisle.