Right - A figure of a Janissary period "SALMATCHOUKADARE: Commissaire de Police" from an illustration extracted from the Plates in the book by Mahmud Sevket Pasha ‘L'Organisation et les Uniformes de l'Armee Ottomanne (1907)’.

Right - The 19th  Janissary Orta badge. Known as the Bekci, or sentinels forming army guards on campaign.

In the imperial capital of Constantinople, security and public order duties were performed by Janissaries, called: Karakullukcu, who carried out the police and security duties.

Right - Two illustrations of the Bekci: night watchman responsible for maintaining local public order, from 1618 - Right [1], and 1809 (Far Right).

Between 1827 and 1837, the state employed local militia, retinues, irregulars, old bandits and vagabonds as security forces, these were distiguised:

• With collar plates, reading 'Bekci'.
• Or were part of the Turkish Army Ferahi Medalysi.

Edmund Spencer’s ‘Travels in European Turkey, 1850’, mentioned the dress of an ‘Arnout pandour, or kavass’, whom had joined his tour party in Bulgaria, noting that his dress was ‘peculiar to that arm of service’ of the bekci, but also, whose employment it was to act as couriers, and protect the caravans and travellers in European Turkey.

• ‘His costume consisted of a pale-yellow hussar jacket, thrown over the shoulder, braided with sundry devices of stars and crescents, the ample shalwar, a singular looking pair of long, wide cloth boots, of the same colour as the jacket, and braided, with the usual red fez.
• The long Arnoutka (Arnout gun) slung across his shoulder, a sabre, a pair of pistols in the holsters of his saddle, another pair, together with a hanjar [khanjar – small dagger traditionally associated with Oman], stuck in his shawl girdle, completed his preparations for offensive and defensive warfare'. 

Right - Dated 1840 (Brown University Library collection), and is titled ‘Kavass’. This figures is -

• Dressed in a green frockcoat, with brass buttons, and cuff with black piping to its edge, and this should be buttoned-up the back seam.
• Loose green trousers are worn with boots or shoes.
• About the waist  is worn a black waist belt, with yellow borders along the top and bottom edges, and the belt supports a black cartridge pouch decorated with a brass multi-point star. The pouch is also decorated with a brass-edge/gold wire embroidery, as it the belt and pistol holsters. The Ottoman pistols have brass furniture fittings.
• The illustrated figure also wears a mid-brown shoulder coat, with upright collar, simply fastened by a single brass fixing (button) at the throat.
• The capote reaches down to the knee and appears devoid of any other decoration.

On each breast there is a row of fabric loops, to take a set of five black-powder charge metal bottles. These are likely cloth breast cartridge pouches, of the type classically seen as a Cossack item of dress.

Right - This Bekci buckle reads: "Neighborhood Watchman 13".