Glengarry Boys' Brigade; namely Warrant Officers, Lieutenants and Brevet Captains. In 1932 Percy Sillitoe, the Chief Constable of the City of Glasgow Police, abolished the traditional custodian helmet and added a new feature to the peaked caps worn by his police officers. This new feature was a black and white chequered cap band based on the dicings seen on the glengarry headress of the Scottish regiments. The diced band, popularly known as the Sillitoe Tartan, later spread to police forces in Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of the United Kingdom, as well as to some other parts of the world,
Glasgow Police Pipe Band Henderson replaced Ward as leading drummer, and the name of the band was changed to Glasgow Police Pipe Band. as City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band as Strathclyde Police Pipe Band as Greater Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band Glasgow Police Pipe Band Glasgow Police Pipe Band is a grade one pipe band from Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1883 as the Burgh of Govan Police Pipe Band, the band enjoyed its greatest competitive success as the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band. The band was one of the first civilian bands in Britain when it formed in 1883 as the Burgh of Govan