On June 7, 1718 Emperor Peter the Great by his decree established The Chief Police Office in Saint Petersburg. A special uniform for police officers was introduced a year later. The armament included halberds, partisans, swords and fusils with bayonets.
Since then the police uniform has undergone a number of upgrade and innovations. The latest uniform for Russia’s police officers was presented in February 2012.
The postage stamps depict a Dragoon with a horse and a police officer (1718); a city policeman and a cavalry captain of the Separate Gendarmerie Corps (end of the 19th century); a traffic police woman and a militia sergeant major (1934), a senior lieutenant and a major general of the police (2012) with the cityscapes of different times on the background.
There are four stamps in an illustrated cover and a FDC with cancellation inside.
Design: S. Ulyanovsky.
Face value: 15 rub. each stamp.
Size of stamp: 32,5х65 mm, size of sheet: 154х152 mm.
Form of issue: sheet of 8 (4х2) stamps with illustrated margins.
Circulation: 320 thousand copies of each stamp (40 thousand sheets of each stamp, 50 thousand small sheets).
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