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[[File:RE_Pol_1.jpg|400px|thumb|right| Trafford Assocation Public Notice 1817.]]▼
===Powers of Magistrates pre 1856===
Before the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_and_Borough_Police_Act_1856 1856 County and Borough Police Act] responsibility for the administration , as well as the enforcing of law and order lay in the hands of magistrates selected for the responsibility in the Hundreds Divisions of the Shire Counties. Hoole and Newton were in the Broxton Hundred, whose magistrates' meetings and hearings were usually held at the Egerton Arms in Broxton, where matters of a mainly rural nature were dealt with. The magistrates were responsible for the police service and a County Police Court at Chester Castle dealt with local offences.
▲[[File:RE_Pol_1.jpg|400px|thumb|right| Trafford Assocation Public Notice 1817.]]
During this time many cases were brought as a result of the work of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_association Associations for the Prosecution of Felons], formed by landowners concerned about the rising level of crime, the local one being the Trafford Association. Its public notices issued annually from 1795 to 1820 listed the local landowners and spelt out very clearly the nature of the crimes about which they were concerned.
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Sgt Clarke was to remain in post for nearly 21 years. He lived at the Police Station with his wife and stepson, and invariably police constables were lodged there. His successors were changed frequently perhaps questioning the phrase "Getting to know one's patch".
[[File:PoliceStationMap.jpg|1000px|thumb|center|Map showing location of the Police Station and the internal layout.]]
Their duties as with all policemen were to enforce the law, uphold the peace, investigate criminal activity and to respond to emergencies. Newspaper reports give details of many incidents, some interesting ones appearing below.
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====Incidents and events====
The six public houses in the area regularly presented two problems - [https://newspapers.library.wales/search?range%5Bmin%5D=1804&range%5Bmax%5D=1919&alt=%28%29&page=1&refine=&query=hoole+AND+police+AND+drunk&sort=score&order=desc&rows=12&publication%5B0%5D=The+Chester+Courant+and+Advertiser+for+North+Wales&publication%5B1%5D=Cheshire+Observer drunkenness] and drinking outside licensed hours. Over the years incidents occurred at every one, resulting in challenges to the renewal of landlords' licences.
* 1857: The stone gate pillars to Moor Park damaged by stone throwing : culprits imprisoned for two months hard labour at Knutsford House of Correction.
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* 1873: and next few years. Reportedly thousands of people in the area for the National Primitive Methodists' Rally on the Folly Field.
* 1878: [[Chester Union Workhouse]] on Hoole Lane opened. Increase in number of vagrants heading for "The Spike" and a night's lodging.
* 1893: [[Royal Agricultural Show in Hoole]] required crowd and traffic management
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* 1896-8: Chester Football Club's grounds in Hoole. Large numbers attended matches (see: [[Hoole and Chester Football Club]]).
* 1898: Hoole sub-postmaster for nine years, Richard Balshaw, indicted for embezzling £37, "''a sum entrusted to him by virtue of his employment''". He had
* 1899: Four boys aged between 9 and 12 summonsed for stealing pigeons from a loft in Tomkinson Street. Sentenced to receive six strokes each of the birchrod.
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===Local policing in the Twentieth Century===
The advent of motorised vehicles added a significant dimension. Vehicles had to be registered and drivers licensed. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Car_Act_1903 Motor Car Act 1903] made it an offence to drive on a public highway in such a way as to be dangerous to the public. The highest speed was to be 20 miles an hour. [[Hoole Road]] and [[Hoole Bridge]] were the scene of numerous incidents.
In both World Wars The Defence of the Realm Acts imposed many restrictions and it was the responsibility of the police to monitor and enforce the regulations. The Aliens Act required persons not of British nationality to register with the police - a Russian watchmaker from Manchester turned up at Hoole Police Station. All persons keeping homing pigeons had to register them, and movement could only take place with a movement licence issued by the police. Pigeon fancying was a very popular hobby in the area.
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Cpt Smith donated £25 to the building fund for
There was embarrassment in 1865
Cpt Smith died in 1877 and:
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Following Col Hamersley's retirement in September 1910 Hoole Lodge was no longer used as the official residence and was returned to the Earl of Shrewsbury's estate. It was eventually sold for housing, being advertised as the Hoole Lodge Estate which was to become Park Drive.
[[File:RE_Pol_15.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Hoole Lodge (From Sale Catalogue 1917).]]
<small><small>Article by Ralph Earlam - 10/6/22</small></small>
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