1880 a new Chief Constable is appointed.
Read more 1841 - September - 70 Police Officers had been recruited.
Read more 1841 - April - saw the appointment of the first Hertfordshire Chief Constable.
Read more 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 ...
Read more James Lucas was a wealthy, eccentric, Victorian land-owner who developed a paranoid fear of his relatives and barricaded himself inside the family mansion. He remained there in a state of siege for 25 years.
Read more The appointment of Captain Archibald Robertson as Chief Constable, on 12th April 1841, is largely regarded as the first day of the Hertfordshire Constabulary.
Read more The life and career of Robert Dunn and his five sons who followed in his police footsteps.
Read more Rickmansworth’s first purpose-built police station was completed in May 1865
Read more The First Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, appointed in 1841 he was to remain Chief Constable for thirty-nine years until he died in office in 1880
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