Police band (music)
[4] Thirteen years later, in 1897, the Milwaukee Police Band became the first such ensemble to be formed in the United States.
[9] As of 2016, 21 annual editions of the event had been held, which includes a public parade and indoor concert by invited bands.
It is part of the Ghana Police Service and performs at a variety of national and local event son behalf of the GPS.
Established in May 1977, the regiment band is composed of over 150 musicians who combined make up a section in the recruitment course.
Gray John Stewart Mtila, the father of the current President Joyce Banda, was a member of the band.
It is primarily responsible for the monthly performance of March of the Volunteers at the national flagpole at the Tiananmen Square, during a flag raising ceremony which is done with the Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion.
In October 2015, the State of Gujarat ordered the foundation the first female police band in its ranks.
The following have hosted the competition since its inception: The Public Security Police Force Band also serves ceremonial functions in Macau.
The PSP Band was created in 1951 under Luis Augusto de Matos Paletti as its director.
[27][28] The Royal Oman Police maintains a camel mounted band based in Muscat.
Band is under control of the Ministry of Interior of Republika Srpska and it is based in Banja Luka.
The Bundespolizei maintains several police bands (German: Polizeiorchester) that are under the control of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community.
It was originally composed of 35 musicians led by Colonel Willi Kaufmann who, past April 1958, performed under the name of the Central Band of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR.
Colonel Kaufmann was transferred in 1960 to the National People's Army to head its musical units, and was eventually succeeded by Wolfgang Ahrendt and Helmut Sommer.
[38] The Hungarian Police Big Band was formed following the merger of the Border Guard into the Rendőrség on New Year's Eve in 2007 under the direction of Major Béla Szalóky.
It combined components of the Border Guard Orchestra with elements of various Hungarian police bands.
The same true for other law enforcement bodies such as the Guardia di Finanza and the Polizia Penitenziaria, who are organized in the following way: Representative Wind Orchestra of the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublikos vidaus reikalų ministerijos Reprezentacinis pučiamųjų orkestras) is the only Police Band in Lithuania.
Abbreviated as TkKMar, the brass band consists of 60 people who are exclusively musicians of the larger military police of the Dutch Armed Forces.
It performs commonly on national holidays such as Koningsdag, Bevrijdingsdag and Veteranendag, as well as military tattoos in and around the country.
[44] The Representative Band of the Polish Police (Orkiestra Reprezentacyjna Policji), has since 1968, been the main musical organization in the law enforcement realm in Poland.
[45] The Free City of Danzig Police maintained a military style marching band, the Musikkorps, since its establishment on 9 April 1920 was formed.
The Khmelnitsky Police Band performs in the costumes of the armies of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in the 17th century.
[46] Police academies such as the Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs also maintain their own brass bands.
In the unrecognized Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics in Eastern Ukraine, police bands fall under the direct command of the interior ministries of both of these regions.
Specifically in the LPR, the Brass Band of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (formed on 22 May 2002[47][48]) actively participates in more than 400 different regional, city and district events.
[49] Police bands in the United Kingdom usually follow the same military format laid out by the Royal Corps of Army Music.
It was listed repeatedly as one of Canada's finest bands, which earned it the privilege of being able to play for dignitaries such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.
Appearances made by the band also included the Expo 86 and the Commonwealth Conference in Vancouver, as well as the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988.
Other non-traditional volunteer bands such as Duty Calls (formed in 1997) from the London Police Service is also maintained.
In the late 1800s, many Irish immigrants took law enforcement jobs in place of naturalized citizens who deemed them undesirable.
