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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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* 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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