• Nottingham City Police, originally founded as the Borough of Nottingham Police, was a UK police force created under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835...
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    Ilkeston Road, Radford, Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Police received a request to attend at 04:05. An anonymous eyewitness told police that he had seen the...
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    visible police presence at times when this was deemed particularly needed. Chief Constable Captain Athelstan Popkess of the Nottingham City Police is credited...
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    Nottinghamshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the shire county of Nottinghamshire and the unitary authority of Nottingham in the...
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    communication between police command and police cars. Under Popkess, the Nottingham City Police began to use police cars as an asset that police tactics centered...
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    radios to deploy mobile police patrol cars remotely, and receive updates from them in return. Popkess and the Nottingham City Police would expand this pioneering...
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    system. In the United Kingdom, police radios were pioneered largely by Captain Athelstan Popkess of the Nottingham City Police in the early 1930s, with trials...
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    Nottingham (/ˈnɒtɪŋəm/ NOT-ing-əm, locally /ˈnɒtnʊm/) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located 110...
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  • Oxford City Police was the police force of the City of Oxford, England. It policed the city from 1 January 1869 until 31 March 1968. It was established...
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    Rock City is a music venue and nightclub located in Nottingham, England. It is owned by venue operator and concert promoter DHP Family. It opened in December...
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    Nottingham station, briefly known as Nottingham City and for rather longer as Nottingham Midland, is a railway station and tram stop in the city of Nottingham...
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    The City Ground is a football stadium in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, on the banks of the River Trent. It has been home to Nottingham Forest...
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  • Athelstan Popkess (category Nottingham)
    was Chief Constable of Nottingham City Police from 1930 to 1959 and as a result of his transformations in modernising policing could be considered the...
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  • released. Spring-loaded bayonet blunderbusses were also used by the Nottingham City Police after its formation around 1840. While the blunderbuss is often...
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    1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park) with Jubilee Campus and teaching hospital (Queen's Medical Centre) are located within the City of Nottingham...
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    developed because of the foresight of Nottingham City Police Chief Constable Captain Athelstan Popkess. The city was divided into zones, controlled by...
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  • the Notting Hill riots in London. The events were downplayed by Nottingham City Police's Chief Constable at the time Capt. Athelstan Popkess who claimed...
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  • wʊd/) is a large district and ward of the city of Nottingham, England, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census...
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  • Nipper Read (category People from Nottingham)
    1925 – 7 April 2020) was a British police officer and boxing administrator. Leonard Ernest Read was born in Nottingham on 31 March 1925, the son of Leonard...
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    under the name of Alan Caillou Athalstan Popkess, Chief Constable Nottingham City Police Ernest R. Stafford, Assistant Superintendent, Jaffa, 1931–1936 and...
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    Radford is an inner-city area of Nottingham and former civil parish in the Nottingham district, in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England,...
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  • season Walker retired from professional cricket and joined the Nottingham City Police. He died at Bridlington, Yorkshire, on 31 August 1995. "First-Class...
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    City Police Lincolnshire† Constabulary, with Lincoln City Police and Grimsby Borough Police Nottinghamshire County Constabulary and Nottingham City Police...
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    south, and Derbyshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Nottingham (323,632). The county has an area of 2,160 km2 (830 sq mi) and a population...
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  • The fixture between Nottingham Forest and Leicester City is a football rivalry played between the two East Midlands clubs, often referred to as an East...
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    Lenton is an area of the city of Nottingham, in the Nottingham district, in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England. Most of Lenton is situated...
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  • been directly appointed by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham and in modern times, with the existence of the police force, the position is entirely ceremonial...
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    Vicky McClure (category Actresses from Nottingham)
    Honouring the great and the good of our City Nottingham Express Transit. Retrieved 12 March 2022 University of Nottingham honour Line of Duty star Vicky McClure...
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  • The Nottingham Panthers are a British professional ice hockey club based in Nottingham, England. They are members of the Elite Ice Hockey League. Their...
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    Basford /ˈbeɪsfərd/ is a northerly suburb of Nottingham, England, incorporated into the city in 1877. It gave its name to Basford Rural District, which...
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