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Photograph collections of images from around the county illustrating many aspects of policing both in the past and present.  Police stations and buildings not replaced with other buildings and illustrations of how policing has changed over the last 100 years.
Choose a collection, click on a photo and open the album.
Please add your own.  If you have images to add please feel free to add them to this website with as much information you can give.
For more pictures go to History Pin where you will find photos linked to Google maps and which are organised into different collections.

  • 'The Scorchers'
    'The Scorchers'
    Possibly the first recorded co-operation between Uniform and C.I.D. Departments.
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  • A Division Officers c. 1910
    A Division Officers c. 1910
    The above photograph consists entirely of A Division Officers and is believed to have been taken in 1910 although the location is not known. At this time the A or Ware Division included Ware (Superintendent station), Hoddesdon (Inspector station), Braughing, Broxbourne, Buntingford, Cottered, Hare Street, Hunsdon, Rye Common, St. Margaret’s, Standon, Wadesmill, Wareside and Wormley. ...
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  • Can anyone help identify this Herts Police Officer ?
    Can anyone help identify this Herts Police Officer ?
    This photo was in an album my grandmother had. She grew up in Bishop’s Stortford but I don’t remember her ever telling me who this man was. Can anyone provide any information, maybe based on the uniform / collar number ?
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  • Communication
    Communication
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  • Eynsham Hall Training Centre, Witney, Oxon.
    Eynsham Hall Training Centre, Witney, Oxon.
    Photo of the District Police Training Academy at Eynsham Hall, Witney, in 2015.
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  • Flooding in the Lea Valley, 1968
    Flooding in the Lea Valley, 1968
    Photos of the flooding of the Lea valley in September 1968. Local Officers had to use their initiative to deal with the problems.
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  • Hertford Police Station 1965
    Hertford Police Station 1965
    This picture shows Frank Swallow, the cleaner at the police station in Castle Street, Hertford, standing at the main entrance in May 1965. Frank was the cleaner when I was a cadet at Hertford between 1959 and 1962: I have a vague recollection that he was a retired police officer. The picture was taken by my father, ...
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  • Hertfordshire Police Cadets 1972 - 1974
    Hertfordshire Police Cadets 1972 - 1974
    A number of photographs of Hertfordshire Cadets taken at headquarters in 1972
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  • Hertfordshire Police Constables 18th July 1927
    Hertfordshire Police Constables 18th July 1927
    Appointment of Constables, 1927
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  • Hertfordshire Police Minstrel Troupe
    Hertfordshire Police Minstrel Troupe
    Concert given on February 3rd 1922
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  • Herts Officers at District Training Centre
    Herts Officers at District Training Centre
    No 5 District Training Centre, 1956.
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  • Local Procedure Course 1962
    Local Procedure Course 1962
    Probationers attended a local procedure course at Headquarters, Hatfield, having already completed their initial training course at Eynsham Hall. This particular course was in November 1962. Shown are (left to right, back row), PC 776 Ken Fisher, PC 781 Dave White, PC 780 John Weeks, PC Russell (transferee from Metropolitan Police), PC 777 Terry Hawker, PC ...
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  • Memorabilia
    Memorabilia
    Two photos of Police Cadets (circa 1956) at the annual event held at Pendley Manor, Tring. (Owned at the time by the well known Show Jumping commentator Dorian Williams). One photo is part of a parade inspection by the Lord Lieutenant of the County. I am on the left next to Denis Smoker. Tony Kiff is in ...
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  • Murder Of A Police Dog
    Murder Of A Police Dog
    On 7th September 1971, a man in Tring threatened members of his family with a shotgun. Police borrow a gun from a local resident
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  • None for the Road. Royston Police 1990
    None for the Road. Royston Police 1990
    Framed photograph of Royston Police titled "None for the Road" Old Royston Police Station October 1990
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  • Opening of Baldock Police Station
    Opening of Baldock Police Station
    New Police Station at Baldock
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  • P.C. Hussey
    P.C. Hussey
    Photo of P.C. William Henry Hussey and the seized motor vehicle. Arrest took place on the 8th September 1922.
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  • P.C. Hussey
    P.C. Hussey
    P.C. William Henry Hussey joined the Royal Horse artillery during World War One; ‘The Great War’. Taken Prisoner Of War on the 30th November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. Taken to Dulmen prison camp in Germany.
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  • P.C. William Hussey
    P.C. William Hussey
    Hello, I have been researching my great uncle William Henry Hussey for some time now, with some fascinating discoveries and although family history past down about his police career was brief, I was put in contact with Paul Watts and was overjoyed by his research into Williams life in the police. As many newspaper articles featured ...
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  • PC 25A Ernest George Rolph and Family at Braughing
    PC 25A Ernest George Rolph and Family at Braughing
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  • PC 299 Dave Barr
    PC 299 Dave Barr
    PC 299 Dave Barr stationed at Harpenden  c1960-1961, riding what is believed to be the first detached beat motorcycle, a green BSA 250.
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  • Police Cadet recruits, 26th August 1959
    Police Cadet recruits, 26th August 1959
    Photo of 23 cadets with senior officers and training staff.
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  • Police Motorway Training A1(M)
    Police Motorway Training A1(M)
    Motorway Training circa 1967
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  • Police Vehicles
    Police Vehicles
    Hi I am sending you some photos of police cars from my collection, that you might wish to add to your archive. 1) Fiat 900T Pulimino van VEW 41S Peterborough registration, 1st registered in June 1978. PC Peter Waterfield is standing by his van, which will be used around the villages of Stotfold in Bedfordshire and possibly Hertfordshire. Photo ...
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  • Sergeant 396 Ivan Judd - A Collection Of Photographs

    Sergeant 396 Ivan Judd - A Collection Of Photographs (9)

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