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  • Special Constables
    Special Constables
    Hatfield Special Constables parade at the Brewery
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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 - Bishop's Stortford
    Special Constables - Bishop's Stortford
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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 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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  • Thanked police for looking after him
    Thanked police for looking after him
    Thanked police for looking after him Hertfordshire Mercury, 12th January 1951 ” I thank the Police very much for looking after me as they did ”  said Herbert John Pateman (34) , labourer , of 181 Ware Road , Hertford , when he was fined 5 shillings at Hertford Magistrates’ Court yesterday for being found drunk and ...
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  • The general strike - praise for police
    The general strike - praise for police
    The Hertford Borough Sessions were held on Thursday before the Mayor (Alderman A. P. Ginn ), Alderman W. Graveson, and Messrs A. S. Gilbertson and W. Burgess.
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  • The German Farm Colony
    The German Farm Colony
    Ongong concerns about the German Farm Colony at Libury Hall detention camp at Munden, why it was being guarded by the local police force rather than the military authorities
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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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  • The woman, her daughter, the JP, and the Russian Count
    The woman, her daughter, the JP, and the Russian Count
    Edwin Butcher, of Hoddesdon, was summoned at Cheshunt by his wife, Elsie Ann Butcher, of Lower Edmonton, for cruelty and desertion.
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  • Vass, Alistair, Special Constable.
    Vass, Alistair, Special Constable.
    2nd November 1987, Sub-Divisional Officer Alistair Vass was presented with a Certificate of Service as he retired from Hertfordshire’s Special Constabulary after 22 years.
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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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