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442:"...difficulties had arisen from the mode of payment provided for carrying into effect the regulations of the act, by levying it out of the county rates; a difficulty as to that provision had arisen in various counties, in which certain districts only had adopted the act. In counties, also, in which there were isolated portions of other counties, it was difficult to say how those isolated portions were to be dealt with, because they were incorporated in the police districts of another county than that in which they were rated for the payment..."
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constables, the divisions of the county and the salaries to be paid and making any additional rules and regulations deemed necessary. The report was then submitted for approval to the Home
Secretary who could modify parts of the scheme but did not have the power to alter the number of constables or their salaries. The sessions had the power to choose a chief constable, but his appointment was also subject to the approval of the Home Secretary. In some cases magistrates chose to form a force in only part of a county.
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to establish a body of constables paid for out of the county rate and under the control of the magistrates. The commission's report, issued in 1839, followed the lines favoured by
Russell. It recommended that "a properly trained and equipped preventative police force" based on the pattern of the
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If, in the opinion of the justices in quarter sessions, the constables provided under the 1839 Act were no longer needed, they could disband them, having given six months notice to the Home
Secretary. No county forces were dis-established, and a resolution in 1843 to dissolve the Worcestershire
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to bring the matter to a vote. If the sessions chose to adopt the act they were obliged to prepare a report on the area and population of the county and the existing method of policing. The report would set out how it was proposed to apply the legislation to the county, detailing the number of
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appointed in 1836 to "inquire into the best means of establishing an efficient constabulary force in the counties of
England and Wales". The three members of the commission, or "Constabulary Commissioners" as they were informally called were Colonel
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Worcester has not been equal to the expense it has occasioned to the ratepayers" was soundly defeated.
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Permission was given to the justices to acquire land and buildings, and borrow money for the construction of police stations and to build strong rooms for the temporary confinement of prisoners.
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for social and political reform. Chadwick was strongly in favour of the creation of a single centralised force, but this was opposed by not only the two other commissioners but also by the
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Where parts of one county were policed by the constabulary of another county, the rate payers were to pay the police rate to the county providing the constables.
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First report of the
Commissioners appointed to inquire as to the best means of establishing an efficient constabulary force in the counties of England and Wales
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to establish police forces in their counties. The Act was not compulsory, and constabularies were only established in 25 out of 55 counties by 1856, when the
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In East Ward and West Ward only: In 1851 it had been decided to extend the acts to Kendal Ward to form a consolidated force with the Kendal
Borough Police
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as chief constable. The appointment was approved on 5 December, and
Wiltshire's example was quickly followed by Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Durham.
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Within a few months of the first county constabularies being formed, a number of problems with the legislation became apparent. Accordingly, the Hon.
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Division having a separate Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace or in which separate County Rates are made". The act was not to extend to the
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The chief constable of a consolidated force could dismiss borough constables, but new constables for the area were to be appointed by the
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A special police rate was to be levied to finance the county constabulary, instead of the cost being part of the general county rate.
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were to be part of the county by which they were surrounded, or with which they had the longest common boundary. All franchises or
198:. The commission was appointed against a background of unrest and violence in some areas of the country, with protests against the
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307:. On 13 November the court of quarter sessions agreed to adopt the act, and on 28 November appointed Commander Samuel Meredith,
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had the power to form their own police force and were to be excluded from the jurisdiction of the county police.
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The Police
Gazette Part 1: Issues for 1866-1878, 1882-1897 and 1899-1900 from the Cambridgeshire Police Archive
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The Police Gazette Part 1: Issues for 1866-1878, 1882-1897 and 1899-1900 from the Cambridgeshire Police Archive
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Constables appointed in the consolidated divisions of Sturminster Newton and Shaftesbury and in the Borough of
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An Act for the Establishment of County and District Constables by the Authority of the Justices of the Peace.
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The constables were to be appointed on a ratio of not more than one officer per one thousand of population.
214:. Russell wrote to the magistrates of the various counties asking them to support the resolution passed in
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Justices of the peace were permitted to transfer areas from one county to another for police purposes.
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Waters, Les. "Appendix A: Notes on the First Report of the Constabulary Commissioners".
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was to be appointed. Where a county was divided into two parliamentary divisions by the
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Act adopted December 1839. Chief constable elected by magistrates on 31 December 1839.
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By 1851 constabularies had been formed to cover all or part of the following counties:
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The act repeated the definition of a county as in the 1839 Act, and noted that the
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police forces with county constabularies and the levying of a new "police rate".
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An Act to Amend the Act for the Establishment of County and District Constables.
1106:"County Constabulary Act - Amendment (HC Deb 18 February 1840 vol 52 cc385-92)"
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The new police in nineteenth-century England: crime, conflict, and control
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Constabulary formed in 1851 in the part of the county not included in the
276:, other than reformed boroughs were also to come under the county police.
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Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning England and Wales
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Act adopted 25 November 1839, chief constable appointed 11 February 1840
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A "county" for the purposes of the act was defined as being "any County,
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1154:"Worcester Quarter Sessions. Proposed Dismissal Of The Rural Police".
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The Leicester Chronicle: or, Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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The first county to form a constabulary under the 1839 Act was
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should be considered a county for constabulary purposes.
1279:. Cambridgeshire Criminal Justice Board. Archived from
508:
List of forces established under the County Police Acts
177:
The legislation was based on the recommendations of a
1224:"Number and Charge of Police in England and Wales".
1008:. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Adam Matthews Publications
910:. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Adam Matthews Publications
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931:"Public order, petitioning and freedom of assembly"
578:Only formed in the Derwent Division of the county.
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438:in February 1840. Maule outlined the problems:
904:Waters, Les. "A Short History of the Police".
2407:Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1379:Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian
231:The act allowed justices of the peace of any
8:
3607:Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919
588:Formed in the Denbigh and Wrexham Districts
322:
21:
3643:Measures of the National Assembly for Wales
1227:Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
257:In each county where the act was adopted a
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3667:Acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland
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1133:Sir George Kettilby Rickards, ed. (1840).
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20:
1248:. Bedford Borough Council. Archived from
3789:Police legislation in the United Kingdom
2405:Great Britain and Ireland and the United
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268:For the purposes of the act all county
188:Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
3769:United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1839
3655:Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly
1080:The History of Wiltshire Constabulary
465:The main provisions of the Act were:
315:Amendment: the County Police Act 1840
7:
3779:Law enforcement in England and Wales
3726:United Kingdom statutory instruments
1047:"Establishment of a County Police".
3784:Rural society in the United Kingdom
1377:"Hants General Quarter Sessions".
167:County and Borough Police Act 1856
14:
1333:"The Making of a Chief Constable"
869:The citation of this Act by this
1246:"Records of Bedfordshire Police"
549:Cambridgeshire: adopted in 1851
340:Parliament of the United Kingdom
333:
169:made their provision mandatory.
151:Parliament of the United Kingdom
39:Parliament of the United Kingdom
32:
3627:Acts of the Scottish Parliament
1111:Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
252:Municipal Corporations Act 1835
3731:Scottish statutory instruments
1381:. Southampton. 4 January 1840.
1362:"Rural Police for Hampshire".
1303:"History of the County Lockup"
1:
3748:Church of England instruments
1427:Pre-parliamentary legislation
1076:"The Magistrates Take Action"
894:, section 2(1) and Schedule 2
458:for the voluntary merging of
446:The bill was enacted as the
1458:the Kingdom of Great Britain
935:The Journal of Legal History
782:Metropolitan Police District
285:Metropolitan Police District
979:Manchester University Press
485:of the borough corporation.
3805:
1160:. 29 June 1843. p. 8.
319:United Kingdom legislation
137:c. 93) (also known as the
18:United Kingdom legislation
2086:Acts of Parliament of the
1234:. 1852. pp. 283–285.
947:10.1080/01440368608530861
755:
692:
535:
434:introduced a bill to the
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327:
31:
26:
2403:of the United Kingdom of
2089:Kingdom of Great Britain
1434:List of English statutes
1139:. Vol. 80. London:
381:Territorial extent
155:Police Acts 1839 to 1893
143:Rural Constabularies Act
80:Territorial extent
1872:Interregnum (1642–1660)
929:Handley, Robin (1986).
879:Interpretation Act 1978
705:Liberty of Peterborough
2066:Parliament of Scotland
1084:Wiltshire Constabulary
971:Taylor, David (1997).
873:was authorised by the
850:In one division only.
846:Yorkshire, East Riding
448:County Police Act 1840
444:
323:County Police Act 1840
131:County Police Act 1839
22:County Police Act 1839
3718:Secondary legislation
2373:Parliament of Ireland
1465:Parliament of England
1277:"History of Policing"
892:Short Titles Act 1896
875:Short Titles Act 1896
440:
227:Provisions of the act
159:Justices of the Peace
3639:Acts of Senedd Cymru
3570:European Communities
1439:Charter of Liberties
1364:Winchester Chronicle
806:Only in one of four
612:Adopted act in 1839
454:c. 88). It provided
291:Establishing a force
250:operating under the
196:Charles Shaw Lefevre
153:. It was one of the
3544:Halsbury's Statutes
1456:of states preceding
1454:Acts of parliaments
1366:. 28 December 1839.
1337:Essex Police Museum
1143:. pp. 359–371.
324:
221:Metropolitan Police
23:
3550:Legislation.gov.uk
2401:Acts of Parliament
1331:Scollan, Maureen.
1311:Dyfed-Powys Police
1283:on 19 January 2011
1114:. 18 February 1840
1055:. 26 October 1839.
981:. pp. 27–35.
544:: adopted in 1841
243:was insufficient.
157:. The Act enabled
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3741:Acts of Adjournal
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3711:
3704:1972–2009/2015–16
3677:Orders in Council
3593:Church of England
3587:
3586:
2081:
2080:
1948:Habeas Corpus Act
1859:Petition of Right
1252:on 3 October 2012
988:978-0-7190-4729-9
854:
853:
830:Adopted in 1839.
698:Northamptonshire
428:
427:
405:Other legislation
385:England and Wales
328:Act of Parliament
241:parish constables
212:Lord John Russell
202:and agitation by
163:England and Wales
127:
126:
104:Other legislation
84:England and Wales
73:Lord John Russell
27:Act of Parliament
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3736:Acts of Sederunt
3696:Northern Ireland
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3564:relating to the
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1339:. Archived from
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840:Adopted in 1839
794:Western Division
769:Western Division
762:Eastern Division
694:Northamptonshire
670:Adopted in 1839
632:Adopted in 1839
568:Adopted in 1843
531:Adopted in 1840
515:
436:House of Commons
423:Status: Repealed
382:
337:
336:
325:
297:quarter sessions
237:quarter sessions
235:, in general or
179:royal commission
173:Royal commission
139:Rural Police Act
122:Status: Repealed
81:
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1086:. pp. 9–10
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676:Montgomeryshire
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564:Carmarthenshire
510:
483:Watch Committee
452:3 & 4 Vict.
424:
416:Police Act 1964
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363:3 & 4 Vict.
342:
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317:
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263:Reform Act 1832
259:chief constable
229:
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135:2 & 3 Vict.
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