A parish constable, also known as a petty constable, was a law enforcement officer, usually unpaid and part-time, serving a parish. The position evolved...

A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement. The office of constable can vary significantly in different jurisdictions...

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Melton Constable is a village and civil parish in the North Norfolk district of the county of Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 6.96 km2 (2.69 sq mi)...

by constables and watchmen. Constables were appointed or elected at the local level for specific terms and, like their UK counterparts the Parish Constable...

position of parish constable, a parochial officer subordinate to a hundred-constable. Although the parish constable and hundred-constable share the term...

A special constable or special police constable (SC or SPC) can refer to an auxiliary or part-time law enforcement officer or a person who is granted...

stopped at his alehouse before the Lawrence attack, and called for the parish constable. Another account claims that two of the gang were spotted by a servant...

Tower Division": the High Constable of a hundred or division had charge of the parish constables of its constituent parishes. A Lord Lieutenant could commission...

the title of chief constable. The title is derived from the original local parish constables of the 18th century and earlier. Constable and constabulary...

first police, from settlement until 1879, had been nine parish constables (one for each parish). As had been the case in England, these positions were...

the office of constable at Carlisle before being dismissed from his role in 1844. He then became a court bailiff, then a Parish Constable at Longtown....

ecclesiastical and secular well-being of the parish they served. Parish constables, sometimes referred to as petty constables, were attested by justices of the peace...

assist the connétable of the parish to maintain law and order. Officers are elected as centeniers, vingteniers or constable's officers, each with various...

the laws then in force in Saint Landry Parish. They appointed a parish constable, a parish treasurer, two parish assessors, and an operator of the ferry...

or undersheriffs of manors. In England, the word came to refer to a parish constable of the Anglican Church, one often charged with duties of charity. A...

among the general population in England was carried out by unpaid parish constables who were elected, and later appointed by the local justice of the...

Connétables or constables (Jèrriais: Connétabl'ye) are the civic heads of the twelve parishes of Jersey and ten parishes of Guernsey. The Connétable is...

were three shoemakers, three shopkeepers, two tailors, a parish clerk and a parish constable, a schoolmaster, a workhouse governess, a blacksmith, a bricklayer...

the parish. One or more Douzaine representatives represent their parish at the States of Election when a new Jurat is elected. Two elected Constables (French:...

Burton Constable is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies approximately 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Hull city...

or stop a crime in progress: Parish Constable William Taylor, 1828 (fatally injured arresting two men) Police Constable Joseph Moss, 1879 (shot whilst...

Constable Burton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Leyburn. The village takes its name from ‘Burton’...

grocers, a tailor & draper, a butcher, a shoemaker, a schoolmaster, a parish constable, and the landlord of Horse Shoes public house who was also a blacksmith...

overnight holding place where local drunks and criminals were taken by parish constables. Prisoners would then be brought before local Justice of the peace...

police force was demanded. The parish constables retained their historic role, but from 1853 uniformed assistant constables were appointed. Initially, there...

be made by a justice of the peace or the sheriff, undersheriff or parish constable. It had to be read out to the gathering concerned and had to follow...

the City of London. It replaced a previously more diverse system of parish constables and watchmen. It is one of the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1895...

Surman, butcher. The parish of Kew found itself without a parish constable in 1873. They contended that under the Parish Constables Act 1872 it was no longer...

were killed while attempting to prevent or stop a crime in progress: Parish constable Henry Thompson, 1817 (shot by men attempting to free a prisoner) Police...