Monday, 22 April 2019

From our files 50 years ago.

From our files 50 years ago: The Scottish Police Federation. The Police Act, 1919 outlawed police membership of unions and created the Scottish Police Federation which explains the second motto:


Blazon: Azure, three fetterlocks in pale Argent accompanied by two sprigs of thistle, slipped and leaved of the Second, flowered Gules, a chief chequy Argent and Azure. Those splendid police dogs are blazoned: Two Alsatian hounds, langued Gules, gorged of collars and with chain leashes reflexed over their backs all Argent.

One Hundred Years ago today

  From the Public Register 100 years ago today, the arms of Sir Henry Craik Bt. P.C. KCB, MP for the Scottish Universities and son of the M...