12-02-2014 - California: A homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk, sheltering in the doorway below a neon sign advertising a Bail Bonds agent. © David Bacon

02-07-2013 - Customs officers searching passenger luggage, Bastia, Corsica, France © Paul Box

02-07-2013 - Customs officers searching passenger luggage, Bastia, Corsica, France © Paul Box

02-07-2013 - Customs officers searching passenger luggage, Bastia, Corsica, France © Paul Box

04-06-2013 - Congolese reinforcements for the FOMAC disembark with their baggage on an airstrip on June 4, 2013, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Seleka former rebels took power in a bloody coup on March 24th © Boris Heger

04-06-2013 - Congolese reinforcements for the FOMAC disembark with their baggage on an airstrip on June 4, 2013, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Seleka former rebels took power in a bloody coup on March 24th © Boris Heger

04-06-2013 - Congolese reinforcements for the FOMAC disembark with their baggage on an airstrip on June 4, 2013, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Seleka former rebels took power in a bloody coup on March 24th © Boris Heger

04-06-2013 - Congolese reinforcements for the FOMAC disembark with their baggage on an airstrip on June 4, 2013, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Seleka former rebels took power in a bloody coup on March 24th © Boris Heger

04-06-2013 - Congolese UPC reinforcements for the FOMAC disembark with their baggage on an airstrip June 4, 2013, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Seleka former rebels took power in a bloody coup on March 24th... © Boris Heger

10-10-2012 - Visitors pass through safety checks Yanamilla prison as they queue to visit their relatives in the Yanamilla prison, Ayacucho, Peru. Many of the prisoners have been convicted of offenses relating to c... © Boris Heger

13-07-2012 - West Midlands ?lice officers questioning a suspect and examining a bag of cannabis, Kings Heath, Birmingham © Timm Sonnenschein

16-02-2011 - Working unpaid on a Community Payback scheme. Young offenders clean up the beach, picking up and removing rubbish using litter pickers, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

16-02-2011 - Working unpaid on a Community Payback scheme. Young offenders clean up the beach, picking up and removing rubbish using litter pickers, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

16-02-2011 - Working unpaid on a Community Payback scheme. Young offenders clean up the beach, picking up and removing rubbish using litter pickers, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

16-02-2011 - Working unpaid on a Community Payback scheme. Young offenders clean up the beach, picking up and removing rubbish, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

16-02-2011 - Working unpaid on a Community Payback scheme. Young offenders clean up the beach, picking up and removing rubbish, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

16-02-2011 - Working unpaid on a Community Payback scheme. Young offenders clean up the beach, picking up and removing rubbish using litter pickers, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

16-02-2011 - Working unpaid on a Community Payback scheme. Young offenders clean up the beach, picking up and removing rubbish, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

02-04-2009 - Police stop and search a man at Canning Town DLR station on the day of the G20 summit. © Justin Tallis

02-04-2009 - Police stop and search a man at Canning Town DLR station on the day of the G20 summit. © Justin Tallis

07-11-2008 - A man is asked to hand his bag over to the Special Constabulary during a search for knives at Canterbury East Train Station while a specials WPC looks on, Canterbury, Kent. © Rogan Macdonald

07-11-2008 - Drug find, what Special Constables thinks is crack cocaine found in a public toilet Canterbury East Station. They believe the drugs were dropped when their carrier realised the police were at the stat... © Rogan Macdonald

07-11-2008 - Drug find, what Special Constables thinks is crack cocaine found in a public toilet Canterbury East Station. They believe the drugs were dropped when their carrier realised the police were at the stat... © Rogan Macdonald

21-05-2007 - A drug dealer holding ecstasy tablets in a baggy. © Justin Tallis

05-04-2006 - A community project to reduce crime in a urban area, located at an after-school club in the Winchestown Family Centre. Police officers in the centre engage with young people from the local area. © Paul Box

05-04-2006 - A community project to reduce crime in a urban area, located at an after-school club in the Winchestown Family Centre. Police officers in the centre engage with young people from the local area. © Paul Box

05-04-2006 - A community project to reduce crime in a urban area, located at an after-school club in the Winchestown Family Centre. Police officers in the centre engage with young people from the local area. © Paul Box

02-04-2006 - Police sniffer dog inspecting luggage for his handler on the concourse of an underground station © Stefano Cagnoni

02-05-2003 - PSCO Caorol Phillips, one of 11 new Police Community Support Officer. She is placing a card warning how to avoid car crime on a vehicle with a bag left lying in full view on the back seat. © Joanne O'Brien

23-01-2003 - London Based Supporters of the PKK Kurdistan Workers Party Leader Abdullah Ocalan stage a Sit Down Protest in Oxford Circus, Central London which succeeded in Holding up and Stopping Traffic. Police O... © Paul Mattsson

15-03-1991 - Albanian refugees Railway station, Brindisi, Italy 1991, boarding trains for a new life in northern Italy. Fleeing the collapse of communism in destitute Albania. © Melanie Friend

15-03-1991 - Albanian refugees Railway station, Brindisi, Italy 1991, boarding trains for a new life in northern Italy. Fleeing the collapse of communism in destitute Albania. © Melanie Friend

27-10-1981 - Police searching shopping bags, Selfridges, Oxford Street, London 1981 during IRA bombing campaign © NLA