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I didn’t know Paul Pring but this image looks very much like Bob Perkins, perhaps they were lookalikes.
I was a member of B shift from 1968 to 1973. Even from a distance of 51 years these men are immediately recognisable to me. Does anyone have any current knowledge of Barry Hinchcliffe? I would dearly love to meet him and reminisce about some of our joint mischief-making on night foot patrols. For example, at 3 a.m one night, Barry “borrowed” the Inspector’s car and flat cap, and drove down past the Everyman Theatre towards me. As the car stopped by me I saluted , assuming that the driver was the Inspector. At that, Barry wound down his window, cackled with laughter, and floored the accelerator. The car hurtled off, mounted the pavement and slammed into a huge Victorian streetlight. The engine was forced into the passenger compartment, and the lamp post was felled to crush the roof of the car. Barry was uninjured, but the car was a write-off.
Peter Tattersall was in Southern Division in March 1974, so passed into Avon and Somerset Constabulary during the night of 31st March. Was a Detective Constable at Clevedon in the late 1980s and then in Weston Super Mare and lived in flat above the Clevedon station.
Not Colin, Hazel. He didn’t transfer-in until the 1970’s.
Most of those on this photograph are of Cheltenham’s ‘B’ shift. Barry was part of that shift and I think he was one of the reserve Panda drivers at the time. Colin Handy was not part of that shift at that time.
Could Panda 8 (thought to be Barry Hinch.) be Colin Handy ?
Panda 1 – Sergeant Fred Gardner
Panda 2 – Sergeant Philip ‘Pip’ Lawrence
Panda 3 – PC Paul Pring
Panda 4 – PC Adrian Wallace
Panda 5 – PC Chris Raymer
Panda 6 – Your truly – PC John Creed
Panda 7 – PC Howard Lacey (later transferred to Avon and Somerset)
Panda 8 – PC Barry Hinchliffe (I think)
Panda 9 – ?
Panda 10 – Unsure – the officer on the right may have been PC Peter Tattersall.
Panda 1 is Sergeant Freddie Gardener.
Panda 4 Adrian Wallace who later became a motor patrol officer
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