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unusual facts about British police



1933–34 Palestine League

The defending champions, British Police didn't take part in this season following an order by the High Commissioner forbidding British teams to play Jewish teams.

Chief superintendent

In the British police, a chief superintendent (Ch Supt; or colloquially "chief super") is senior to a superintendent and junior to an assistant chief constable (or a commander in the Metropolitan Police or City of London Police).

Hijli Detention Camp

A significant moment in the struggle against British rule occurred at The Hijli Detention Camp on Sept. 16, 1931 when two unarmed detainees, Santosh Kumar Mitra and Tarakeswar Sengupta, were shot dead by the British Police and Subhas Chandra Bose came to Hijli to collect their bodies.

Police aviation in the United Kingdom

Police aviation in United Kingdom provides the British police with an aerial support unit to assist them in pursuit, surveillance and tracking.

Specialist Investigation Department

The Specialist Investigation Department is a branch of the Criminal Investigation Department of a British police force (although many use different names) which investigates crimes such as murder and sexual offences supplying specially trained officers to monitor known ex offenders which have a history of sex offences and also this unit could be considered the same as Area Major Incident Pool of the Metropolitan Police Service.


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Catling

Richard Catling (1912–2005), British police officer in British Palestine and Commissioner of Police in Kenya

Daniel Machover

He was involved in obtaining a warrant on behalf of Palestinians to arrest Israeli General Doron Almog on a visit to London for alleged war crimes, but was never acted upon by British police.

Dikko Affair

The CEO of Nigeria Airways was at one point almost arrested by British police.

Francis Caldwell

Francis Caldwell CBE MVO KPM (c.1860 – 17 April 1934) was a British police officer who served as Head Constable of Liverpool City Police from 1912 to 1925.

Identity code

IC codes, used by British police forces in radio communications to specify a person's ethnicity

Jessica Fletcher

With time, she makes friends in many police departments across the US, as well as a British police officer attached to Scotland Yard.

John Hermon

He was the first RUC officer to attend the advanced policing course at the British police training college in Bramshill in England, before returning to Northern Ireland and a promotion in Belfast.

Ledbury Signal Box

A new additional telephone system was introduced in 2012 with the advent of GSM-R this is a GSM, 3G telephone system that allows signallers to contact the train crew by voice or text and can link into the communication systems used by the British police, fire and ambulance services.

Michael Todd

Michael J. Todd (1957–2008), senior British police officer, formerly Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police

Police Complaints Board

Like its replacement, the Police Complaints Authority, and the current Independent Police Complaints Commission, the Police Complaints Board was completely independent of the British Police.

Protection Command

In contrast with the vast majority of British police officers, many members of the Protection Command routinely carry firearms in the course of their duties and all are Authorised Firearms Officers.

Shepherd's Bush murders

Public sympathy for the families of the victims resulted in the establishment of the Police Dependants' Trust to assist the welfare of families of British police officers who have died in the line of duty.

Snivilisation

The band released the album at the time of the launch of the Criminal Justice Act, the legislation that gave British Police greater legal powers to break up unlicensed raves that gave Orbital its name.

Tom Conway

From 1951–1954, Conway played debonair British police detective Mark Saber, who worked in the homicide division of a large American city, in the ABC series entitled Inspector Mark Saber – Homicide Detective.

Wearside Jack

In addition, the US profiling expert Robert Ressler revealed in his book, "Whoever Fights Monsters", that he told the British police that the main tape was a hoax immediately when he heard it.

Yew Tree

Operation Yewtree, a British police investigation into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile and others