Tom Dye’s collection began with Badge 418. That’s the number he was assigned when he joined the Akron Police Department in December 1969. Now the walls of his home are lined with tidy rows of historic ...

Retired Champaign police Officer Zane Ziegler displays the badge of slain Officer Robert Tatman that he found last month at a collectors show. Reporter Retired Champaign police Officer Zane Ziegler ...

From historical badges to challenge coins to police patches and everything in between, there was something for any enthusiast of police history in the United States. A Davenport Police paddy wagon on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tom Dye, a retired Akron police sergeant, stands next to some of the badges, patches and memorabilia he has collected. Tom Dye’s ...