Life as a Police Sergeant and serving as a Traffic Officer.
Read more Family Lows But Policing Highs - The Arrest of Harry Roberts.
Read more Promotion to Inspector brings more responsibility and family life unfortunately seems to repeat itself.
Read more The final chapter covering his employment and family life until his death in 1999.
Read more 2000 saw the Metropolitan Police give up those areas of Hertfordshire that they had Policed since 1840.
Read more 2011 saw the 175th anniversary of the formation of the Hertford Borough Police.
Read more 1962 a Traffic Department is formed.
Read more 1974 the new Police Station at Stevenage is opened.
Read more 1976 sees the ending of Women Police Departments.
Read more It is interesting to compare salaries between 1880, 1911 and 2014
Read more Grenadier Guardsman Boer War Veteran, Private 2488 Hertfordshire Yeomanry, Lance Corporal P/14882 Military Mounted Police.
Read more Matilda Storey, of Kibes Lane, Ware, was summoned for using bad language.
Read more A Private in the 1st/1st Hertfordshire Regiment and briefly the Sherwood Foresters he was awarded the DCM for saving wounded Guardsmen at Festubert. He was wounded at least three times but survived the war. Life after the war was full of sadness and personal tragedy. He joined the Hertford County Constabulary in 1921 and resigned in 1925.
Read more Section B Reservist, Gunner 206135 Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
Read more Sometime in the 1970s, as far as I can recall, several police forces were offered former Police Mobile Column vehicles as they were thought suitable for conversion to Forward Command Vehicles. Hertfordshire Constabulary acquired an ex military Bedford RL 4 wheel drive lorry, registration UGY 828F and put it to use for that purpose. It ...
Read more Section B Reservist, Guardsman 32202 Grenadier Guards
Read more A photograph of Group 4 at Bishops Stortford being briefed in 1975
Read more Following a long reign by Triumph and a shorter one by Norton, BMW motorcycles came on the scene and the company was eager to get them into police fleets. In 1974, we were given a demonstrator to try and I spent quite a bit of time on it. As the grin on my face shows, ...
Read more Section B Reservist, Private 29229 Grenadier Guards
Read more Private 2514 Hertfordshire Yeomanry, Corporal P/14904 Military Mounted Police
Read more Section B Reservist, Guardsman 32196 Grenadier Guards
Read more Adrian Clissitt was the tenth Chief Constable. He was born in South Wales in 1924 and nearly became a monk.
Read more Being a member of the Territorial Army Royal Artillery he was mobilised as a Gunner on the 31st August 1939 and went to France with the British Expeditionary Force where he was wounded and evacuated back to England. Recovering he was sent to North Africa and then Italy being promoted eventually to Regimental Sergeant Major. Awarded the BEM for his part in the Anzio Beachhead landings he survived the war. Coming late to the Police he joined Essex County Constabulary in 1950 where he served 18 years and reached Chief Inspector rank. Transferring to Hertfordshire in 1968 on promotion to Superintendent he ran the Training Department until retirement in 1977.
Read more These are the life stories of a father and son who both served in the Hertford County Constabulary. John Cross enlisted in the Army in 1915 as a Section B Army Reservist but was never mobilised his son Stanley also enlisted in 1915 as Guardsman 24497 in the Grenadier Guards aged 15. Having been sent to France his true age was revealed and he was sent back to the UK. He returned to France in 1918 where he was wounded and was awarded the Military Medal. After the War he joined the Police.
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