This Week in Hertfordshire Police History

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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Notable Events In Week Two
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society. This Week In History. 8/1/1925 Commendation. The action of Constable Edward T Pennicott 152 “C” in stopping a runaway horse in Queens Road, Watford on Thursday, 1 January 1925, has been brought to the notice of the Chief Constable. The report shows that the constable to of acted promptly and with courage and the Chief ...
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Notable Events In Week Three
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History. 14th to 20th January 14/1/1843 Hertford Mercury and Reformer 14th of January 1843 Reports of Chief Constables It will be recollected that the Marquis of Salisbury, at the late quarter sessions, objected to the report of the Chief Constable, on account of its furnishing a comparative statement of the cases of sheep stealing ...
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Notable Events In Week Four
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society. This Week In History. 21/1/1836 Formation of the Hertford Borough Police under Henry Bishop as Superintendent and John Wilmot, George Gray, James Neale and George Mosers as Constables. All of these were given to the Borough by the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (Met.Police). They were not very efﬁcient……..Neale lasted 6 days, Gray ...
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Notable Events In Week Five
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 28/1/1927 On 28 January 1927 Police Federation brought to the Chief Constable’s attention the fact that certain members of the force while on strike duty at Ilkeston in Derbyshire, were poisoned by food supplied through the Derbyshire Police Authority which necessitated their being placed on the sick list, through no ...
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Notable Events In Week Six
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 4/2/1931 The 4th February 1931 saw the first motor patrol in St. Albans when a B.S.A. motor cycle combination was purchased and put into service. Many mechanical problems were experienced during the initial stages and thought had to be given to acquiring waterproof clothing for the officers on patrol. The ...
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Notable Events In Week Seven
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 11/2/1979 The construction of the new divisional police headquarters and renovation of the sub-divisional police station at Watford was completed on schedule at the beginning of the year. The move from the temporary accommodation at Addiscombe Road School back to the Shady Lane site took place on Sunday, 11 February ...
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Notable Events In Week Eight
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 18/2/1973 On the 18th February 1973, a cinema manager was held up and robbed of £60 by two men, one of whom ﬁred a pistol at the manager’s assistant who came to his aid. A few days later, 2 men armed with pistols attacked a Watford man at his home. ...
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Notable Events In Week Nine
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society. This Week In History. 25/02/1978 Times. Woman’s revenge by arson. A woman who was annoyed because her local newspaper reported her appearance in court on a charge of trying to burn down a hospital, was jailed yesterday for starting ﬁres in the newspaper’s ofﬁces. Miss Marianne Cribben, 23, of Breakmead, Welwyn Garden City, pleaded ...
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Notable Events In Week Ten
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 5th March 1847 Hertford Mercury 13/3/1847 Murderous outrage on a Police Constable On Friday night, the 5th inst., a most brutal attack was made upon Police Constable Broom, stationed in the town of Hitchin. It appears that on Saturday morning, about 7:30 o’clock, a constable was found by a person who ...
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Notable Events In Week Eleven
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History March 1991 Sgt on the road to recovery A sergeant from Stevenage is on the road to recovery following a stabbing incident on 7 March. The Sergeant was off duty in Letchworth town centre, when he saw wages snatch outside Barclays bank. Despite being shot at with an airgun and hit ...
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Notable Events In Week Twelve
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 20th March 1886 Herts. Advertiser CAPTAIN TERRY’S APPOINTMENT AS CHIEF CONSTABLE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. Captain Terry, of St. Albans, Deputy-Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, was on the 11th instant elected Chief Constable of the County of Northumberland. From the report, which we have since seen, of the proceedings at the Quarter Sessions where the ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirteen
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 28th March, 1975 Bomb Scare. A dramatic bomb scare closed Woolworths, Watford, for nearly four hours on Tuesday after a caller, claiming IRA connections, had demanded payment of £5,000. A man, who said he was from the “London Provisionals”, threatened to detonate remotely controlled bombs hidden in the store if ...
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Notable Events In Week Fourteen
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 07 April 1860 Hertfordshire Express and General Advertiser Concealment of birth. Mary Ann Cook, was brought up in the custody of the police, charged with concealing the birth of her child at Bayfordbury Farm, on the 16th of March last. The case occupied the time of the court, upwards ...
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Notable Events In Week Fifteen
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Friday 08 May 1903 Herts & Cambs. Reporter & Royston Crow Royston District. The amount of out relief granted during the fortnight was £ 57.14s.7d.; corresponding period last year, £ 59.4s.6d. The number of vagrants relieved during the fortnight was: first week 9, second 15. Inspector H. G. Sprigg, successor ...
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Notable Events In Week Sixteen
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 21 April 1860 Hertfordshire Express and General Advertiser STEALING TURNIP TOPS. Ann Parker, of Hoddesdon, was charged with stealing turnip-tops, and damaging the crops of Mr. Davie Jun, farmer, or St. Margarets. Fined 6d., and costs 14s. 6d. TURNP TOPS AGAIN. Francis Welch, tramp, was charged with stealing turnip-tops, the property of Mr. ...
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Notable Events In Week Seventeen
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 26 April 1890 Watford Observer George Brown was charged with stealing eight planks of wood, the property of William Judge, builder, Watford, on the 22nd April. Police constable Reeves. 604 S, stated; ‘About quarter past 7 o’clock in the morning of Tuesday, the 22nd April, I was in Villiers Road New ...
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Notable Events In Week Eighteen
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Tuesday 1st May 1860 Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser ST. ALBANS TOWN COUNCIL. On Saturday morning special meeting of the council was held. The business was to receive and determine upon a report of the watch committee to providing more cells, an engine-house, and residence for the police, and ...
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Notable Events In Week Nineteen
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 8th May 1850 Hertford Mercury and Reformer Police Account. Summary of the Accounts of Mr. Philip Longmore, Treasurer for the County of Hertford, in Relation to the Police Force, from the 29th march, 1849, to the 30th march, 1850. CHARGE. Balance in the hands of the Treasurer Easter Session, 1849 £1678.1s. 4 ...
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Notable Events In Week Twenty
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 13 May 1871 The Herts. Advertiser and St Albans Times There being again but little business before the Magistrates at the St. Albans Liberty Petty Sessions on Saturday last, the only case of interest being a charge of assault against Police Constable Hunt, of Sandridge, who, it appears from the ...
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Notable Events In Week Twentyone
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 24th May 2003 St. Albans Review – Brave hairdresser The bravery of a Bishop’s Stortford hairdresser who tackled a man wielding a kitchen knife in a Bishop’s Stortford street has been honoured by Hertfordshire Police. Ian Reijs, who owns Brookes Hair in the High Street, was presented with the Hertfordshire Constabulary ...
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Notable Events In Week Twentytwo
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 30th May 1863 Hertfordshire Mercury and Reformer. HERTFORD BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS, May, 28. Present: The Mayor, J.J. Gripper Esq., J. Hancock, Esq. Daniel Magenis, an Irish hawker, was charged with assaulting Peter Keean at a beerhouse in West Street on the18th inst. The assault arose out of some words addressed ...
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Notable Events In Week Twentythree
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 08 June 1889 THE THAMES MYSTERY. Morning Post Further human remains belonging to those already at Battersea Mortuary were found yesterday. The first discovery took place near Wandsworth-bridge, where a gipsy named Solomon Hearne discovered a woman’s right leg lying on the foreshore of the Thames on the Fulham side. The ...
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Notable Events In Week Twentyfour
Hertfordshire Constabulary Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 6th June 1864 Watford Observer REFUSING TO LEAVE A PUBLIC HOUSE. John Levy, of Pinner, (who did not appear) was charged with refusing to leave the Compasses public house when required do by the police. Police Constable Jennings said that on the 24th inst., he was on duty in Watford ...
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