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SPECIAL CONSTABLE. One who has been appointed a constable for a particular occasion, as in the case of an actual tumult or a riot, or for the purpose of serving a particular process. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Among 1,500 special constables created to cope with Chartism's last gasp in 1848 were a significant number of respectable workers, who identified more closely with the city's bourgeois municipal authorities than with the desperate, insurrectionary woolcombers who predominated among Bradford's radical Chartists. Nottinghamshire Police consists of approximately 3,800 men and women, who are either regular officers, special constables or support staff. |
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