However, after he was deposed in favour of the Patricianship the Watch sank even further into obscurity he was (until recently) the last Watch Commander. The Watch had a brief respite in AM 1688, following the Ankh-Morpork Civil War, when Commander Suffer-Not-Injustice Vimes and his Ironheads became the city's rulers. Public opinion of the Watches (the Ward became known as the Day Watch) was never high, and reached an all time low when a Commander, who had told the public not to take the law into their own hands, was thrown onto the Ankh with a cry of "If it's not in our hands, whose hands is it in?" The Guilds were policing themselves by this point, so the Watch was becoming increasingly irrelevant. The force comprised one commander, five captains, ten sergeants, forty corporals, lance-corporals, constables and lance-constables, and, in times of emergency, a "citizens militia" of varied size. during the day and the Watch, who served the same purpose in the hours of darkness. Since he had little interest in maintaining a police force the smart armour and equipment of the Watch quickly deteriorated.Īt this time there were four separate forces: The Palace Guard, who guarded the palace the Cable Street Particulars, who served as government intelligence the Ward, who acted as gate-guards, thief-takers etc.
Four days later Veltrick's son assassinated him, and became Veltrick II. They had full copper armour and a copper shield inscribed "Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter" ("Make the Day, the Moments Pass Quickly", Veltrick's motto). The Ankh-Morpork Watch & Ward was founded in AM 1561 by King Veltrick I. Note: Some of the information repeated below was taken from The Discworld Companion and the 1999 Discworld Diary, which had a City Watch theme, and has not been confirmed in any of the Discworld novels. 4.16.1 Special-Constable Andy "Two Swords" Hancock.4.11 Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets.4.9 Lance-Constable Salacia "Sally" von Humpeding.
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