03-06-2017 - PCSO patroling Nottingham city centre, Nottinghamshire © John Harris

03-06-2017 - PCSO patroling Nottingham city centre, Nottinghamshire © John Harris

11-06-2016 - Detroit, Michigan Wayne County sheriff Anonymous Gun Buyback program, offering 50 for each weapon handed in, a group of men nearby holding signs offering to buy guns for 100. They said they would be s... © Jim West

06-06-2015 - Appleby Horse Fair, Cumbria, Police Officers arresting a man for starting a fight. An argument developed over the man buying a red convertible Porsche from another Traveller. © David Mansell

05-06-2015 - Appleby Horse Fair, Cumbria, Tom Harker a horse dealer from Darlington proudly driving his two horses past the Grapes Public House speeding along the Sands road. © David Mansell

16-02-2015 - CCTV camera. Barnsley Town Centre. © Connor Matheson

19-01-2013 - Milford, Michigan - A worker goes over the paperwork for a gun buyers background check as customers crowded the Huron Valley Guns store on Gun Appreciation Day. Pro-gun groups gathered at gun stores a... © Jim West

15-12-2011 - Close up of the hash seller with a shoe shop shopkeepers gun, Amman, Jordan. Probably a Norinco NP-29, a Chinese clone of the Browning M1911A1. © Connor Matheson

15-12-2011 - A shopkeeper gets out his gun, Amman, Jordan. Probably a Norinco NP-29, a Chinese clone of the Browning M1911A1. © Connor Matheson

16-09-2011 - Security guard helping a shopper, Westfield Stratford City, the largest urban shopping centre in Europe. © Philip Wolmuth

16-09-2011 - Security guards, Westfield Stratford City, the largest urban shopping centre in Europe. © Philip Wolmuth

16-09-2011 - Security guards, Westfield Stratford City, the largest urban shopping centre in Europe. © Philip Wolmuth

16-09-2011 - Security guards, Westfield Stratford City, the largest urban shopping centre in Europe. © Philip Wolmuth

01-04-2009 - G20 Meltdown, City of London on the eve of the London G20 Summit. Riot police in front of shop. © Paul Herrmann

15-11-2006 - Children buy some food in a shop in Bogota, November 2006. © Boris Heger

15-11-2006 - A girl buy some food in a shop in Bogota, November 2006. © Boris Heger

15-11-2006 - Two shop owners in their context, Bogota, November 2006. © Boris Heger

15-11-2006 - Two shop owners in their context, Bogota, November 2006. © Boris Heger

18-05-2006 - Window display in the shop called Victor Morris in Glasgow city centre. The shop sells various sporting goods including hunting knives and replica swords, pistols, and rifles, as well as musical equip... © Gerry McCann

18-05-2006 - Window display in the shop called Victor Morris in Glasgow city centre. The shop sells various sporting goods including hunting knives and replica swords, pistols, and rifles, as well as musical equip... © Gerry McCann

18-05-2006 - Window display in the shop called Victor Morris in Glasgow city centre. The shop sells various sporting goods including hunting knives and replica swords, pistols, and rifles, as well as musical equip... © Gerry McCann

18-05-2006 - Window display in the shop called Victor Morris in Glasgow city centre. The shop sells various sporting goods including hunting knives and replica swords, pistols, and rifles, as well as musical equip... © Gerry McCann

18-05-2006 - Window display in the shop called Victor Morris in Glasgow city centre. The shop sells various sporting goods including hunting knives and replica swords, pistols, and rifles, as well as musical equip... © Gerry McCann

06-09-2003 - Saturday morning car boot sale, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire. © John Harris

02-05-2003 - PSCO David Wylie & PSCO Carol Phillips chatting to local shopkeeper Serdar Simsik . They are some of the 11 new Police Community Support Officers. © 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

24-10-2002 - Truancy officer question a mother and daughter who is out of school, islington london © Duncan Phillips

24-10-2002 - Truancy officers question two boys who are out of school, islington london © Duncan Phillips

24-10-2002 - Truancy officers question two boys who are out of school, islington london © Duncan Phillips

14-10-2002 - Police Officers buying snacks during a night shift at a 24 hour Tesco supermarket. © Duncan Phillips

14-10-2002 - Police Officers buying snacks during a night shift at a 24 hour Tesco supermarket. © Duncan Phillips

14-09-2000 - Police presence at a petrol station in Manchester during the fuel crisis, to allow only essential service employees to buy fuel. The shortages were caused by lorry drivers and farmers blockades in pro... © Paul Herrmann

22-07-2000 - Shop Assistants apprehend a suspected shoplifter. Islington London © Duncan Phillips

22-07-2000 - Police Officers apprehend a suspected shoplifter . Islington London © Duncan Phillips

22-07-2000 - Shop Assistants apprehend a suspected shoplifter. Islington London © Duncan Phillips

22-07-2000 - Shop Assistants apprehend a suspected shoplifter. Islington London © Duncan Phillips

13-10-1998 - Drug dealer with half an ounce of cannabis resin © John Harris

29-08-1984 - Police queuing for ice cream, Kiveton Park 1984. Officers take a break from policing in the pit village of Kiveton Park to buy an ice cream from Rock on Tommy during the miners strike of 1984. © John Harris

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

13-04-1949 - French National Lottery, buying tickets for a special draw, Paris, Easter, 1949, France © Ina Bandy