1856-08-25 · 香港
1856年8月25日,就一名歐籍警察遭控勒索之案件作出裁決時,律政司晏士地提議在警員制服標示編號,並於警帽加上皇冠圖案,藉此辨認身分;此項提議其後得到正按察司曉吾採納。
On 25 August 1856, when ruling on a case in which a European police officer was accused of extortion, Attorney General Anstey proposed marking police uniforms with numbers and adding a crown emblem to police caps for identification, a proposal subsequently adopted by Chief Justice Hulme.
來源 《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事)(香港地方志中心) · p.143