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Police Specials

  • Special Constables
    Special Constables
    At Hatfield Petty Sessions on Monday Messrs. Ernest Stokes, Daniel Birch, and Victor Chapman, were sworn in as Special Constables.
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  • Special Constables
    Special Constables
    At Hertford Borough Sessions on Thursday, Mr J. Vine, of Old Cross, was sworn in as a Special Constable.
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  • Special Constables - Jacob Monk
    Special Constables - Jacob Monk
    Request from family member looking for information on her Grandfather
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  • Special Constables and the Volunteer Training Corps
    Special Constables and the Volunteer Training Corps
    The Chief Constable of the county of Hertford has granted Special Constables permission to join the ranks of the Volunteer Training Corps.
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  • Special Constables and their duties
    Special Constables and their duties
    It is reported that some of the special constables are beginning to kick over the traces a little, and are complaining that they did not join to do military drill and route marching.
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  • Special Constables as enumerators
    Special Constables as enumerators
    In Cheshunt some of the Special Constabulary, on an order from the staff headquarters, New Scotland Yard, are undertaking the role of enumerators in connection with the National Registration next week.
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  • Special Constables called out after dropping of hostile bombs
    Special Constables called out after dropping of hostile bombs
    Great consternation was created near Cheshunt Police Station on Sunday afternoon when the discharging of four bombs summoned the members of the special constabulary to the station.
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  • Special Constables called out again
    Special Constables called out again
    On Tuesday night at about 11 o'clock most of the special constables at Cheshunt and Waltham Abbey were called to their respective stations in consequence of the reported movements of hostile aircraft on the east coast.
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  • Special Constables needed
    Special Constables needed
    Recruiting campaign for more Special Constables at the outbreak of War 1914.
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  • Special Constables sworn in
    Special Constables sworn in
    At Buntingford Petty Sessions on Friday, five special constables were sworn in.
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  • Stanstead Abbotts Special Constables 1915
    Stanstead Abbotts Special Constables 1915
    Specials urged to re-enlist and requests for winter clothing
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  • The Special Constabulary
    The Special Constabulary
    Men over military age are required to be enrolled as Sspecial Constables in Ware.
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  • Watford Special Constables
    Watford Special Constables
    The special constables of Watford and the district were summoned to a meeting in the Clarendon Hall on Monday evening for the purpose of determining their further length of service.
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  • We need more police volunteers
    We need more police volunteers
    The Chairman at the Stevenage Police Court appealed for more volunteers as special constables to counter the state of things that were "not quite desirable."
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  • Why not join the police
    Why not join the police
    Frederick George Carter, a greengrocer and special constable, charged with being drunk and disorderly and with assault.
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  • Women Special Constables
    Women Special Constables
    A lady who could be of great service especially in regard to detecting spies.
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Policing in WW1
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