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  • 1909 Watford Police Charity Fund Raising Event.
    1909 Watford Police Charity Fund Raising Event.
    An evenings entertainment - all in a good cause.
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  • Notable Events In Week Twentynine
    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 Twentyseven
    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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  • Bolter, Francis Leonard, 34, Police Constable.
    Bolter, Francis Leonard, 34, Police Constable.
    Boer War Veteran Private 3943 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers, Section B Reservist, Lance Corporal P/8284 Military Mounted Police
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  • Cousins, Alfred Ernest, 57,  Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector.
    Cousins, Alfred Ernest, 57, Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector.
    1st and 4th Battalions, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Egyptian campaign veteran. WW1 Royal Warwickshire Regiment Company Quartermaster Sergeant, Royal Army Service Corps 239th Company, Acting Staff Sergeant Major
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  • A Few Facts About Policing St Albans City During The Great War
    A Few Facts About Policing St Albans City During The Great War
    Jurisdiction Over St. Albans City Police From 1916.
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  • Law, Alfred Letchworth Annie.  1911 - 1928
    Law, Alfred Letchworth Annie. 1911 - 1928
    The third Chief Constable of Hertfordshire Constabulary and Lieutenant Colonel in the Headquarters Staff of the North Staffordshire Regiment
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  • Smith, George Harold, 9, Police Constable.
    Smith, George Harold, 9, Police Constable.
    Royal Horse Artillery then Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
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  • A well deserved award
    A well deserved award
    All officers are awarded a pay rise, plus the honorarium for the Acting Chief Constable
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  • Cooking the books !
    Cooking the books !
    James Heatson was charged with falsifying the books to the sum of about £2000. The case was adjourned, and the defendant was remanded in custody, to appear at Quarter Sessions.
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  • Captain Wymer's Promotion
    Captain Wymer's Promotion
    On 9th May 1895, Ware's Superintendent Wymer was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable and replaced by Superintendent William Wood. As a mark of their appreciation for his kindness and support, Wymer's officers gathered at the police station to wish him a fond farewell.
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  • Whitbread, Thomas Joseph, 139, Police Constable, Sergeant.
    Whitbread, Thomas Joseph, 139, Police Constable, Sergeant.
    The death took place on Saturday, after a short illness, of Sergt. Thomas Whitbread, at his residence, Baldock.
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  • Salary of the Chief Constable
    Salary of the Chief Constable
    At the quarterly meeting of Hertfordshire County Council, to reconsider the resolution passed by them as to the salary to be paid to the Chief Constable during his absence on leave.
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  • Watford Special Constables
    Watford Special Constables
    The special constables of Watford and the district were summoned to a meeting in the Clarendon Hall on Monday evening for the purpose of determining their further length of service.
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  • Law, Major.  - salary of the Chief Constable while absent on military duties
    Law, Major. - salary of the Chief Constable while absent on military duties
    Newspaper report of Council debate on payment for the Chief Constable while away on Military Service.
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  • Smith, George Harold, 9, Police Constable.
    Smith, George Harold, 9, Police Constable.
    Newspaper report of the presentation of a sword by the Acting Assistant Chief Constable to a former officer Smith who had joined the Army and had been promoted on the field of battle to Lieutenant. !915
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  • Wood, William.  - Acting Chief Constable's appointment
    Wood, William. - Acting Chief Constable's appointment
    Appointment of William Wood as Acting Chief Constable in 1915
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  • Absence of Chief Constable
    Absence of Chief Constable
    Newspaper article in 1915 on the reluctant agreement of the Standing Committee to allow the Chief Constable Major Law to return to the Army and for Sup Wood to become Acting Chief Constable
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  • Wood, William
    Wood, William
    The story of William Wood known as "The Father of the Hertfordshire Constabulary" Acting Chief Constable 1914 to 1918
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  • Extra Payments Proposed to encourage Officers not to Retire
    Extra Payments Proposed to encourage Officers not to Retire
    Newspaper report on the decision to pay Officers who are eligible for a pension an extra payment to encourage them not to retire and therefore save the force money.
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  • Watford's Police Station 1888-1940
    Watford's Police Station 1888-1940
    The third Watford Police Station was in Kings Street and when it closed it became The Robert Peel Public House
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  • Cycle of offending - theft of bicycle at Rickmansworth and elsewhere
    Cycle of offending - theft of bicycle at Rickmansworth and elsewhere
    John Shepherd, painter, pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle.
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  • A dishonest woman
    A dishonest woman
    Bertha Littlewood sentenced to nine months' hard labour, on three charges of theft.
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