Glastonbury Borough Police was the police force responsible for policing the borough of Glastonbury in England between 1837 and 1856.[1]
Glastonbury was one of the original 178 boroughs named in the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 which required boroughs to appoint a watch committee with a duty to appoint sufficient numbers of constables. As a result, Glastonbury Borough Police came into existence in 1837 with two sergeants and two constables to patrol the borough.[1] A government report in 1852 stated that the force only had two constables to police the borough at an annual cost of only £6. It is therefore believed that the force was part-time. [2]
The county in which Glastonbury is situated, Somerset, had no modern police force until 1 September 1856 when Somerset Constabulary was formed. Glastonbury Borough Police was consolidated into the new Somerset Constabulary at around the same time as the county force commenced operations.[3] The headquarters of the new county force was situated in Glastonbury initially.[4]
Today, Glastonbury is policed by the successor of Somerset Constabulary, Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
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edit- ^ a b "Police Reform Report" (PDF). lra.le.ac.uk. March 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
- ^ Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (6 June 2018). "Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons". Ordered to be printed – via Google Books.
- ^ Clark, Peter (2015). Police Reference: England & Wales. United States of America: Amazon. pp. E-491. ISBN 978-0-9858978-0-2.
- ^ "History report" (PDF). www.asnarpo.org. July 2006.
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