This book was donated to the archives. Some of the items are very of their time and use language that is unacceptable today. We have tried to pick out some interesting items.
A Police Constable’s Guide to his Daily Work from 1924.
(Gloucestershire Police Archives URN 10938)
Some of the offences of the time that the officers had to deal with.
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An interesting window into policing a hundred years ago. How shocking that a Justice had the power to order the equivalent of a birching for a boy under the age of ten.
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