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Line 47: 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. Line 55 ⟶ 57: ====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. Line 73 ⟶ 75: * 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 Line 79 ⟶ 81: * 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 not forwarded a deposit of Mrs Carter to London although he had initialled her Post Office Savings Bank Book. (He was the son of Thomas Balshaw who opened a grocery shop in Peploe Street 40 years earlier, now Lewis's office, where the Post Office was subsequently located). Richard Balshaw was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. * 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. Line 120 ⟶ 122: </gallery> Cpt Smith donated £25 to the building fund for [[All Saints Church]] which opened in ~~1967~~ 1867 and a brass plaque in the church commemorates his activities there. He, his wife and family played an active part in local life, being associated with many events at the Church and the Lecture Hall. There was embarrassment in 1865 when his son, Ensign St Clair Smith, then of the 49th Regiment, Dublin was convicted for attending a cock-fight at Peel Hall,near Tarvin. He and twelve other gentlemen were fined £5 plus costs. Cpt Smith died in 1877 and: