Me in '73

Bradford City Police (of blessed memory) merged with Leeds City Police and the West Riding Constabulary on 1st April (significantly) 1974.   I use the word merged with tongue in cheek.  As a Bradford colleague put it "How can it be that two city forces merge and they put the coppers who looked after the fields in between in charge?".

Anyway West Yorkshire had a force newspaper, issues of which appear monthly on a WYP Facebook  site.  I am still coming to terms with this picture of Inspector me in the issue of January 1973:

Apparently I am keeping out of harm's way manning the Bradford City underwater search team's stall at a 'look what you'll soon be missing" exhibition - holding a ?cannon ball found by the team somewhere wet.  The onlookers seem impressed.