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Police Specials

  • 'I only done it for a bit of fun'
    'I only done it for a bit of fun'
    Bogus Special Constable shouts instruction to Army Captain on bike
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  • A man's got to have his sleep
    A man's got to have his sleep
    Special Constables unhappy about imposition of mandatory night shift
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  • An exciting struggle
    An exciting struggle
    "Strong Wormley beer" blamed for drunken fight with two constables
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  • Apology to Special Constabulary and details of officers enlisting
    Apology to Special Constabulary and details of officers enlisting
    Newspaper story apologising for a previous article that was deemed derogatory to Special Constables. The second part gives details of the number of full time officers who had left to join the forces in 1915
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  • Arrest of a special constable
    Arrest of a special constable
    George Frederick Carter, a hawker, of Bishop's Stortford was brought up in custody charged with being drunk and disorderly.
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  • Bakers as Special Constables
    Bakers as Special Constables
    Swearing in of Special Constables
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  • Bakers as Special Constables
    Bakers as Special Constables
    Several of the master bakers of Ware were sworn in as special constables,
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  • Buntingford Special Constables
    Buntingford Special Constables
    Arrangements have been made for two special constables of Buntingford to be on duty every evening.
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  • Drunkenness
    Drunkenness
    Pub landlady was fined £1 for being drunk on her husband's licensed premises.
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  • Enemy aliens
    Enemy aliens
    As the war started, suspicion of foreigners, particularly Belgians and Germans, began to be reported in the local newspapers.
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  • Enrolment of Special Constables at Puckeridge
    Enrolment of Special Constables at Puckeridge
    Fifteen additional Special Constables were sworn in for Standon and Puckeridge. There were now about 140 Special Constables enrolled in the Buntingford south section.
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  • Grandad was in the Specials
    Grandad was in the Specials
    Pictures of Bishops Stortford's Specials during the Great War with Images of one of their members' John Griggs medal
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  • Hertfordshire Special Constable Section Leaders December 1914
    Hertfordshire Special Constable Section Leaders December 1914
    This article was published in the local press in case of a German invasion so that Section Leaders of the Hertfordshire Special Constabulary could be contacted quickly.
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  • Hitchin Special Constables on the march
    Hitchin Special Constables on the march
    The Hitchin Special Constables took advantage of the fine weather and held a route march.
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  • Hoddesdon chauffeur fined
    Hoddesdon chauffeur fined
    Ernest Benjamin Dutch, motor driver, of Hoddesdon, was summoned for carrying lights on a motor-car of greater brightness than necessary
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  • Liability of Special Constables
    Liability of Special Constables
    Alfred Cannon, dealer, of Little Wymondley, was summoned at the instance of Supt Reed with that he, being a Special Constable, did neglect his duty and fail to parade at Little Wymondley on April 5.
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  • Men of the Hertfordshire Constabulary go to war
    Men of the Hertfordshire Constabulary go to war
    Details of some of the Officers of Hertfordshire Constabulary who joined the services in the First World War
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  • Nose blowing !
    Nose blowing !
    Private Henry Woods, a soldier, of Hatfield, pleaded guilty to assaulting S.C. Henry Richard Taylor during an air raid.
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  • Notable Events In Week One
    Notable Events In Week One
    Hertfordshire Police Historical Society. This Week In History. 1/1/1948 A total of 1,017 crimes were reported in “C” Division for 1947, of which 415 were detected. 1/1/1967 A Drugs Squad was formed on 1st January 1967, with a strength of one Detective Sergeant, one Detective Constable and one Woman Detective Constable, They will be based at Headquarters. 26 persons were prosecuted ...
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  • Rise of Anti German Feeling
    Rise of Anti German Feeling
    Once the war began it wasn't long before fear and suspicion of Germans was widespread
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  • Spanner in the works !
    Spanner in the works !
    Bicycle's acetylene lamp too bright ?
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  • Special Constable assaulted
    Special Constable assaulted
    Reginald Brown, dealer, of Hitchin, was fined £1 10s. and 16 shillings costs for assaulting William John Green, a Special Constable.
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  • Special Constable inspection
    Special Constable inspection
    Stanstead Abbotts Specials inspected by the County Special Constabulary leader Major A St Leger
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  • Special Constables
    Special Constables
    Hatfield Special Constables parade at the Brewery
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