This Week in Hertfordshire Police History

Notable Events In Week Twentyfive
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Friday 23rd June 1939 Hertford Mercury and Reformer £2OO WORTH OF CAR PARTS STOLEN The premises of Shelford & Crowe. Motor Engineers, High Street. Stevenage, were broken into during Tuesday night and new car parts valued at over £2OO were stolen from the stores. Money was also missing from a till. Everything ...
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Notable Events In Week Twentysix
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Friday 29th June 1900 Luton Times and Advertiser At the Herts Quarter Sessions, William Nobel (33), and Ernest Edgar Waller (27), members the Hertfordshire Constabulary, pleaded not guilty to an indictment for stealing two fowls, the property of Walter William Wise, of Offley, on May 2nd. Mr. Grubbe appeared for the ...
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Notable Events In Week Twentyseven
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Friday 07 July 1939 Hertford Mercury and Reformer STRUCK BY CAR AT ROAD JUNCTION A man and a woman were fatally injured in a road accident a few seconds after appearing to be “very happy and interested in each other” was told at an inquest on Wednesday at Welwyn Garden City. The ...
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Notable Events In Week Twentyeight
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 13th July 1901 Herts Advertiser STILL AT LARGE. It was on May 2Sth that George Matthews, labourer, of Hatfield, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting a police constable whilst in the execution of his duty at Lemsford. As he was being removed from the Court to the ...
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Notable Events In Week Twentynine
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Friday 19th July 1901 Herts & Cambs. Reporter & Royston Crow HERTFORDSHIRE POLICE CASE. THE CHIEF CONSTABLE SUED FOR DAMAGES. At the Watford County Court on Monday last before His Honour, Judge Sir Alfred Marten, K.C., and a jury, an important case was heard in which the plaintiff, Herbert Axom, was a ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirty
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Friday 19 July 1940 Bucks Herald THE LATE MR. W. S. FLOWER His contemporaries at Berkhamsted School, his comrades of the Police Force, and his many friends made throughout the world in his varied career, learned with great regret of the death, announced last week, of Mr. William Stanley Flower, elder ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtyone
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Friday 30 July 1920 POLICE ORPHANAGE. REDHILL. GLOWING TRIBUTES. With the opening of the Victory Memorial School near at hand, the summer gathering and prize distribution at the Provincial Police Orphanage, Redhill on Thursday last week, was more or less of a formal character. Delegates were present from not a few ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtytwo
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Tuesday 11 August 1908 Sheffield Daily Telegraph Adverse Balance of £7,000. Inspector George Reed, of the Hertfordshire Constabulary, gave evidence of the arrest of the defendant Cheltenham. In regard to the second charge, evidence was given that defendant acted as treasurer of the North Mimms Club, although was not elected. Dr. Barnes ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtythree
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Thursday 13 August 1931 Aberdeen Press and Journal (and many other publications) – PRISONER’S DASH FOR FREEDOM. Caught After Exciting Street Chase. There was an exciting police chase through the streets of St. Albans last night. A prisoner was being escorted by two plain clothes officers of the Hertfordshire Constabulary, when ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtyfour
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 24 August 1895 Herts. Advertiser APSLEY END. Presentation Ex-Police Constable Charles Handley. On Monday evening a public meeting was held the Village Club, Apsley End, for the purpose of presenting Mr. Handley with a testimonial in recognition of his long service as a police constable. Mr. A. H. Longman, J.P., C.C., ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtyfive
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 28 August 1880 Hertford Mercury and Reformer HERTFORDSHIRE CONSTABULARY. CHIEF CONSTABLE. Candidates for the appointment of Chief Constable, now vacant, are requested to address their applications, in writing (marked “Chief Constable”), to the Justices in Quarter Sessions, under cover to me not later than the 30th September next. Copies only of ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtysix
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 1883 In an action tried before Judge Rodgers and a special jury at the Leominster County Court on Thursday, against Superintendent Strangward, of the Hertfordshire Constabulary, for arresting without a warrant in July last a young man suspected of giving poisoned meat to a dog, a verdict was given for ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtyseven
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 10 September 1883 On 10 September 1883, PC 59, Hill having distinguished himself by his energy and ability in detecting offenders and procuring convictions in several cases of fowl stealing, is permitted to receive a reward of 1 pound offered to him by the Steward to his Grace the Duke ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtyeight
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society. This Week In History. 18/9/1922 At Hatfield Petty sessions 18 September 1922, the chairman Colonel Halsey OBE, commended Constable’s 306 Hussey of Hitchin, for initiative and courage displayed in boarding a moving motorcar, and affecting the rest William Holmes on a charge of burglary. The Chief Constable endorses the commendation and directs that an ...
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Notable Events In Week Thirtynine
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 28/9/1966 A constable at Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions was rewarded for his Great Gallantry in arresting a man with a gun at a Watford Ballroom. Mr Peter Crowder, the Chairman ordered that Pc Geoffrey Thompson be given £5, the highest amount a Quarter Sessions Court is empowered to give. Watford observer 29/9/2004 Stevenage police ...
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Notable Events In Week Forty
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 1/10/1964 On October 1, 1964, the Home Secretary announced that for a two-year experimental period small bodies of very experienced detective ofﬁcers who would concentrate on the apprehension of travelling criminals were to operate all over England and Wales. Although at that time there were more than 120 separate police ...
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Notable Events In Week Fortyone
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 9/10/1967 On the 9th October 1967, the Alcotest Breath test was introduced. 101 Tests were administered before the end of the year, 26 of which were positive. Five persons were prosecuted for refusing to take the test. The average alcohol of those found positive was 163mg/100ml in blood (legal limit ...
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Notable Events In Week Fortytwo
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 16/10/1988 At 1 a.m. on 16 October 1988, a Special Constable and a Constable, were on patrol in the parade Watford. Both ofﬁcers heard a gunshot and saw a man lying injured on the ground. The Special Constable ran in the direction where the shot had come from and his ...
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Notable Events In Week Fortythree
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 22/10/1880 Captain (later Lt-Col) Henry Smith Daniell was appointed the 2nd Chief Constable of Hertfordshire. He had a distinguished career in the army in India, and beat of 66 other applicants for the position. It was an inspired choice as Daniell would go on to transform Hertfordshire which had stagnated ...
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Notable Events In Week Fortyfour
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History CROWN COURT JUDGE’S COMMENDATION – General Order 43 of 1999 Commended at St Albans Crown Court by His Honour Judge Colston: A Sergeant from Dacorum Division For tenacity and dedication to duty in the investigation of a difﬁcult injury road trafﬁc accident which, as a result of the ofﬁcer’s dogged persistence, ...
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Notable Events In Week Fortyfive
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Tuesday 10 November 1835 Hertford Mercury and Reformer Commitments the County Goal. William Archer and William Jennings, charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding Daniel Olney and William Olney, with intent to do them some grievous bodily harm. To the House of Correction. William Cocks and James Smith, two months. Samuel Hawkins, James ...
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Notable Events In Week Fortysix
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 12/11/1884 In general orders on 12 November 1884 the following appeared-the Chief Constable has information which leads him to believe that many of the breweries in the county are practically open houses to the police and of those breweries, members of the force can obtain refreshment such as beer or ...
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Notable Events In Week Fortyseven
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 19/11/1906 Times 19/11/1906 Embezzlement by a Prison Governor – At Hertford Assizes on Saturday, before Mr Justice Lawrence William Oxley, ex-governor of St Albans gaol, was sentenced to 3 years penal servitude for embezzling £250 of public money at St Albans. 19/11/1989 On 19 November 1989, Hertfordshire was the ﬁrst area outside ...
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Notable Events In Week Fortyeight
Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 26/11/1924 Commendation. At Great Berkhamsted petty sessions on 26 November 1924, the chairman Spencer Holland Esq, commended Constable Arthur Samuel Brown, 316 “D” Division , as action whilst in plain clothes, and on the sick list, in affecting the rest of Edward Cornwall CRO, on a charge of larceny. (General ...
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