The Police were founded by American expatriate Stewart Copeland in early 1977.

Singer-bassist Sting ( Gordon Sumner ) and guitarist Henry Padovani began rehearsing with Copeland in January 1977, and they recorded the first Police single " Fall Out " the following month.

Restrained by loyalty to Padovani, both Copeland and Sting initially resisted the idea, and the Police began performing as a four-piece version in July 1977.

Paralleling these developments, in 1977 / 78, Sting and Summers recorded and performed ( alongside other invited musicians ) with German experimental composer Eberhard Schoener ; Copeland also joined for a time.

In 2004, Henry Padovani released an album with the participation of Stewart Copeland and Sting on one track, reuniting the original Police lineup for the first time since 1977.

In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London, and soon thereafter he joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani ( who was soon replaced by Andy Summers ) to form the New Wave band The Police.

The band recorded several demos and played at a Paris Gong reunion concert in May 1977, but disbanded when Summers left to join Copeland and Sting's other project, The Police.

Illegal Records is a record label founded by Miles Copeland III with his younger brother Stewart Copeland and the manager of The Police, Paul Mulligan in 1977.

* 1940 – Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded Red Army Faction ( d. 1977 )

In 1977, Diwan schools were founded to teach Breton by immersion.

The Diwan schools were founded in 1977 to teach Breton by immersion.

* Environmental Life Force, a radical environmental group founded in the United States in 1977

* 1977 – Kevin Rose, American businessman and television host, founded Digg

The earliest recorded LARP group is Dagorhir, which was founded in 1977 in the USA and focuses on fantasy battles.

* 1903 – Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant ( d. 1977 )

* Republic of Molossia, a desert-based micronation of 2. 5ha ( 1. 3 acres ) located near Reno, Nevada ruled by President Kevin Baugh, founded in 1977.

The Minoan Brotherhood was founded in 1977 in New York by Edmund Buczynski, an elder in the Gardnerian, WICA and New York Welsh Traditions, in order to create a Craft tradition for gay and bisexual men — one that would celebrate and explore the distinctive mysteries unique to men who love men.

Discharge, founded back in 1977, established D-beat in the early 1980s.

The International Psychohistorical Association founded by Lloyd deMause in 1977 is the professional organization for the field of psychohistory.

It was founded in 1977 by Meena Keshwar Kamal, an Afghan student activist who was assassinated in February 1987 for her political activities.

* 1896 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Ludacris, American rapper, producer, and actor, founded Disturbing tha Peace Records

The newest college of the university is Robinson, founded in 1977.

The Ancient Order of the Pterodactyl ( AOP ) was the name of a fraternal association founded in 1977.

* Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, annual literary journal founded in 1977 and published by Columbia University

The reserve was founded in 1977 on the enclosed area in 5, 131 ha.

In 1977, Zapf and his friends Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin founded a company called " Design Processing International, Inc ." in New York and developed typographical computer software.

Focus on the Family ( FOTF or FotF ) is an tax-exempt non-profit organization founded in 1977 by

Robertson founded CBN University in 1977 on CBN's Virginia Beach campus.

In 1977 Winterhelt founded the Pudelpointer Club of North America in Canada.

A radical non-parliamentary, anti-democratic far-right organization active in Austria was the VAPO ( Volkstreue Außerparlamentarische Opposition ) founded by the Austrian neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel in 1986, who publicly declared to be a member of the US-American neo-Nazi organization NSDAP / AO since 1977.

In 1977, the Foundation for the Preservation and Protection of the Przewalski horse was founded in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by Jan and Inge Bouman.

* Police Story ( 1 episode, 1977 )

It was first screened at the Old Compton Street cinema club in Soho, London in 1977, in an uncut form and without certification from BBFC secretary James Ferman ; the premises were raided by the Metropolitan Police after a few days.

The Police Act of August 1976 set up a Police Complaints Board “ to formalise the procedure for dealing with public complaints .” The Education Act of November 1976 limited the taking up of independent and direct-grant school places and required all local authorities who had failed to do so “ to submit proposals for comprehensive schools ,” while the Housing ( Homeless Persons ) Act of 1977 extended local authority responsibility “ to provide accommodation for homeless people in their area ,” and instituted the right of homeless families to a permanent local authority tenancy.

The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977.

Laporte was defeated by Joseph Nieto of the Police Athletic Leagues Lynch Center in the 1977 118 lb Open Championship.

At the time of the 1977 Mogadishu mission, the Commander of the Israeli Border Police Tzvi War described GSG 9 as " The best anti-terrorist group in the world.

Under the direction of Mayor Theisen and the Village Board, the Village Hall and Police Station moved out of a renovated residential duplex to the now Old Village Hall in 1977 on Torrence Avenue.

The First Roseville Police Chief was Ray Goneau and he held that position until 1977.

In this regard they stand on a basis quite different from the members of an organized police force .” The Municipal Police Institute, now the MCJTC, issue a report in May 1977, on the powers of constables noting that modern police out only evolved from constables but they derive their common law powers arrest from constables, also stating “ Constables still possess extensive law enforcement powers to this day ”.

He also starred as Police Chief Paul Lanigan in the 1976 television movie, Lanigan's Rabbi, and in the short-lived series of the same name that aired in 1977, as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie lineup.

He was detained in Buenos Aires in 1977 by the Argentine Federal Police, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months ; whilst incarcerated, he received — among other distinctions — the Pope John XXIII Peace Memorial.

On 5 July 1977, before the announcement of any agreement, Bhutto and members of his cabinet were arrested by troops of Military Police under the order of Zia by the evening.

From 1974 to 1977, Kerik served in the U. S. Army Military Police Corps.

Lupino guest-starred on numerous television programs, including The Ford Television Theatre ( 1954 ), The Twilight Zone ( 1959 ), Bonanza ( 1959 ), Burke's Law ( 1963 – 64 ), The Virginian ( 1963 – 65 ), Batman ( 1968 ), The Mod Squad ( 1969 ), Family Affair ( 1969 – 70 ), Columbo ( 1972 – 74 ), Barnaby Jones ( 1974 ), The Streets of San Francisco (" Blockade ", 1974 ), Ellery Queen ( 1975 ), Police Woman ( 1975 ) and Charlie's Angels ( 1977 ), to name a few.

The National Police Gazette continued on after the death of Fox as a monthly publication for many years before ceasing print publication in 1977.

Riot Police Truck ( 422 ) released in September 1977 was a squat armoured military vehicle painted white and red with twin water cannons fitted to the rear, and perhaps reflected the turbulent times in Britain towards the end of the 1970s, and the Jaguar XJ12 Coupe which was released in December 1975 finished in the white and pale blue livery of the Coastguard ( 414 ), complete with die-cast light and twin foghorns on the roof.

Fletcher, who had joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1977, was part of a detachment of 30 officers sent to St. James's Square to monitor a demonstration by Libyan dissidents opposed to the rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

The park served as the headquarters of the Long Island State Park Commission and Long Island State Parkway Police from their founding in 1946 until their disbandment in 1977 and 1980, respectively.