* 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.

* 1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau ( Embassy ) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy.

* 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

* 1951 – Da ' i Bachtiar, Chief of Indonesian National Police

1960 ), first black New York City Police Commissioner, 1983 – 1989

* 1964 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents ' decision to forbid protests on UC property.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

The first concentration camps were under the direct command of SS – Polizei-führer Globocnik, and operated by SS Police battalions and Trawnikis — volunteers from Eastern Europe ; whereas the SS-Totenkopfverbände managed the Nazi Concentration Camps such as Dachau and Ravensbrück.

* 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams.

* 1949 – Jacques Duchesneau, Canadian civil servant and Chief of Police

Among his favourite targets were socialist leaders such as Hermann Müller and Carl Severing, and the Jewish Berlin Police President, Bernhard Weiß ( 1880 – 1951 ), whom he subjected to a relentless campaign of Jew-baiting in the hope of provoking a crackdown he could then exploit.

* 2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

* 1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.

* 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.

* 1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.

* 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.

* 1934 – " Bloody Thursday " – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

* 2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

* 1952 – Stewart Copeland, American drummer ( The Police, Animal Logic, Curved Air and Oysterhead )

* 1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the " Battle of London Airport ".

* 1989 – Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered ( b. 1933 )

* 1968 – Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs.

* 2009 – Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.

In 1983, the Police released their last studio album, Synchronicity, which spawned the hit singles " Every Breath You Take ", " Wrapped Around Your Finger ", " King of Pain " and " Synchronicity II ".

The Synchronicity Tour began in Chicago, Illinois in July 1983 at the original Comiskey Park, and ended in Melbourne, Australia in March 1984 at the Melbourne Showgrounds ( the final concert featured Simple Minds, Flock of Seagulls, The Fixx, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and The Police topping the bill ).

* March 1 – Sting plays his last concerts with The Police at the end of the Synchronicity tour ; the band takes a " pause " after the tour and only play a few special events together after this, until 2007, when they would organize a reunion tour.

" Every Breath You Take " is a song by The Police on the band's 1983 album Synchronicity, written by Sting and Andy Summers ( but officially credited to Sting only ).

** The Police for Synchronicity

* The Police recorded two concerts on November 2 – 3, 1983 at The Omni in the wake of the Synchronicity album.

Cover of The Police album Synchronicity.

They were jointly nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Long Form for: The Police: Synchronicity Concert in 1986.

They created memorable videos for The Police (" Every Breath You Take ", " Synchronicity II ", " Wrapped Around Your Finger "), Duran Duran (" Girls on Film ", " A View to a Kill "), Herbie Hancock (" Rockit "), Go West (" We Close Our Eyes "), Frankie Goes to Hollywood (" Two Tribes ", " The Power of Love "), Sting (" If You Love Somebody Set Them Free " " Fields of Gold "), and Wang Chung (" Everybody Have Fun Tonight "), among many others, up to Godley's video for the 1996 single from The Beatles, " Real Love ", featured in the Beatles Anthology.

* 1984-The Police, Synchronicity

* Synchronicity ( The Police album ), 1983

* " Synchronicity II ", a 1983 song by The Police from the Synchronicity album

* Synchronicity Tour, a 1983 – 1984 concert tour by The Police

Michals also produced the art for the album Synchronicity ( by The Police ) in 1983, and Richard Barone's Clouds Over Eden album in 1993.

The Police performed at the stadium during their Synchronicity Tour on September 8, 1983.

The band recorded the album at Treesound Studios in Atlanta, and they used the same soundboard that was used on the album Synchronicity by the Police and Rush's Moving Pictures.

* " Mother ", a song by the Police from Synchronicity