The sixth (Acting) Chief Constable. He served throughout the Great War he was wounded and awarded a Silver War Badge. On discharge from the Army he joined the Hertford County Constabulary and quickly rose through the ranks.
Read more James Lucas was a wealthy, eccentric, Victorian land-owner who developed a paranoid fear of his relatives and barricaded himself inside the family mansion. He remained there in a state of siege for 25 years.
Read more Watford's first Police Station was located at 193 High Street. The original building has now been demolished.
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