Britain’s longest serving police officer retires after 47 years
PC Bob Brown received a guard of honour in Croydon today as he began his final shift after nearly half a century in The Job.
Arriving in a vintage Morris Minor patrol car with a mounted branch escort, officers and the local public lined the route to Croydon Police Station.
Bob was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal and retires this year as the longest serving officer in the country.
Born in Croydon in 1950, PC Robert ‘Bob’ Brown will be hanging up his hat after 47 years of service after he joined the Met as a police cadet in 1968.
Having been a cadet for a year - which was a paid position at the time - Bob signed up as a trainee police constable a day after his 19th birthday on 17 February, 1969, and went on to spend the next 13 weeks at the Met’s Hendon training school.
Equipped with just a wooden truncheon, whistle, note pad and pencil - Bob’s first posting was to West Hampstead, where he spent 15 years on the local beat and crime squad. At the time, officers had no radio and called the station every two hours using a ‘Dr. Who’ style police box to report his whereabouts and if an arrest was made, handcuffs would need to brought from the station
Via - Metropolitan Police Service
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