"Some of our men were hit with steel bars, lead pipes and wooden truncheons."

It is a tradition of the service that standard policing should be carried out by uniformed officers equipped only with a wooden truncheon.

In the early years of the Metropolitan Police, equipment was little more than a rattle to call for assistance, and a wooden truncheon.

Until the mid-1990s, most police forces utilised a 14 inch long traditional wooden truncheon.

The Celere was fitted with wooden truncheons at first [7] and some jeeps were provided by the U.S. military.

When the rioters stormed the police station, it was defended by 16 police officers armed with wooden truncheons.

The officer moved to the back of the room and returned with a wooden truncheon.

A wooden truncheon tapped him on the shoulder.

The big Russian, Pavel, drew a heavy wooden truncheon from beneath his own dark coat.

Until the mid-1990s, British police officers carried traditional wooden truncheons of a sort that had changed little from Victorian times.