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After many complaints over a number of years over the crime ridden state of Lancashire, it was decided in 1839 that a combined county police force was required to police the county. In the same year the force was founded and Captain John Woodford was made chief constable with two assistant chief constables, 14 superintendents and 660 constables.
The Act, which came into force in 1889 passed control of county constabularies to standing joint committees of county councillors and magistrates, and merged smaller borough police forces (where the town had a population of less than 10,000) with the county police.
When the subject matter became known, Lancashire Constabulary, the police force featured, put pressure on the families of the participants to withdraw their consent, and after taking legal advice, the BFI would not allow the film to be shown publicly until 1990. This led some commentators to call Juvenile Liaison 1 "The Film the Police Arrested".
The chief constable of the Lancashire Constabulary referred to the use of blue and white Ford Anglia panda cars in Kirkby in an article in The Times on 26 January 1966. Ford Anglia panda of the 1960s In 1967, the Dunbartonshire force bought two Hillman Imps (subsequently nicknamed Pinky and Perky ) for escort duties on the A82 road ; one was ...
Manchester and Salford Police was a police force in England from 1 April 1968 to 31 March 1974. [1] It was created as a merger of the Manchester City Police and Salford City Police and covered the adjacent county boroughs of Manchester and Salford .
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Lancashire Police's Assistant Chief Constable Peter Lawson died on 10 December aged 50.
Some used the style by the Metropolitan Police, topped with a boss, while others had a helmet that incorporated a ridge or crest terminating above the badge, or a short spike, sometimes topped with a ball. Luton Borough Police (1876-1947) wore a straw helmet in a similar style to the Bermudan police helmet, with a small oval plate.