The film was restored in 2014 through the Chaplin Essanay Project.
Restoration work was carried out at Lobster Films laboratory in 2014. Scanned at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
Police (1916) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films in collaboration with Film Preservation Associates, from a nitrate fine grain preserved at The Museum of Modern Art and a nitrate print preserved at the Archives françaises du film (CNC).
Some fragments were added from a tri-acetate fine grain in the Samuel M. Sherman collection.
Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original titling.
Police (1916) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films in collaboration with Film Preservation Associates, from a nitrate fine grain preserved at The Museum of Modern Art and a nitrate print preserved at the Archives françaises du film (CNC).
Some fragments were added from a tri-acetate fine grain in the Samuel M. Sherman collection.
Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original titling.